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of Canada was in 1917 at least $340,000,000, and in 1918 

 at least $260,000,000. 



Let us now attempt to estimate the crop value of Mar- 

 quis in the United States for the year 1917. The data 

 for estimating the crop value of Marquis, in 1917, for 

 the four chief spring-wheat States, together with the re- 

 sults of the calculations, are given in the following 

 Table : 



18 



Crop Values of Marquis Wheat in the Four Spring-Wheat 



States in 1917 



From the foregoing Table, it is clear that the crop value 

 of Marquis for the year 1917, in the four chief spring- 

 wheat States alone, amounted to the large sum of $162,- 

 000,000. But Marquis in 1917 was also grown on many 

 acres in several other States. Making allowance for this, 

 the crop value of Marquis for the United States as a whole, 

 in 1917, was upwards of $170,000,000. 



18 The totals of the crops of wheat in the four States are as given 

 in the December Monthly Crop Report, Washington, 1917, p. 121. 

 The percentages of the whole crop contributed by Marquis is given 

 in the August Monthly Crop Report, 1918, p. 95. The exact prices 

 per bushel, which vary about $2, are given in the December Monthly 

 Crop Report, 1917. 



