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UNITED STATES, THE CENSUS OF. 



product, is found in fonr States Illinois, Iowa, 

 New York, and Pennsylvania. 



California and New York still produce near- 

 ly half of the barley-crop. Wisconsin, Iowa, 

 and Minnesota have made the heaviest in- 

 crease, and now produce the larger part of the 

 remaining half. It is making no appreciable 

 advance in the South. 



The increase of rye has been only seventeen 



per cent, showing a decline in production in 

 proportion to population. Pennsylvania, Illi- 

 nois, and New York still produce about half the 

 crop. 



Two thirds of the buckwheat-crop is the 

 product of New York and Pennsylvania. 



The following table, taken from the census 

 report for 1880, gives the cereal crops for 

 1879: 



The following table shows the number of 

 acres of sugar-cane planted, and the number 

 of hogsheads of sugar and gallons of molasses 

 produced in 1879, as returned at the census of 

 1880: 



most one half of the whole crop is the yield of 

 the State of South Carolina. Georgia is the 

 next in productiveness : 



The production of rice is given in the an- Following are the statistics of the tobacco- 

 nexed table. It grows in eight States, but al- crop: 



