BUCKWHEAT 



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TABLE XVII. SHOWING ACREAGE, PRODUCTION, AND VALUE OF 

 BUCKWHEAT IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA IN 1909 



About J of the crop was produced in this same year by 

 these states, named in the order of yield from high to 

 low : Michigan, West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Maine, 

 Wisconsin, and New Jersey. 



The largest crop of buckwheat ever produced in the 

 United States, according to the estimates of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, was in 1886, when the crop amounted 

 to more than twenty-two million bushels, but the pro- 

 duction, as evidenced by the same figures, declined to 

 less than half this amount a few years later, since which 

 time there has been a slow, gradual increase. 



651. Production in Europe. Buckwheat is grown 

 in Europe principally between the 48th and 57th parallels, 

 the principal regions of production being Holland, Den- 

 mark, northwestern Germany, and northwestern, central, 

 and east-central France. It is grown to some extent in 

 nearly all of France, Prussia, Bulgaria, and Russia from 

 Petrograd south to the Black Sea, and also in some 

 parts of Austria. Buckwheat is not largely grown in 

 Europe north of the latitude of Petrograd (60), nor 

 south of the latitude of the southern boundary of France. 

 In Ufa Government, Russia, near the Ural Mountains, 

 the crop is often unusually good in quality. 



1 Percentage of total for the United States. 



