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Bushels 



New Zealand 90,000 



Total for all the world 1,884,646,000 



POTATOES. 



The area planted in potatoes in the United States 

 for 1912 was 3,711,000 acres, and the yield 420,647,000 

 bushels. As compared with other countries the yields 

 are as follows : 



Bushels 



In Canada 84,885,000 



In Mexico 924,000 



In Newfoundland 1,524,000 



In South America 59,656,000 



In Europe 5,237,364,000 



In Asia 118,774,000 



In Africa 3,800,000 



In Australia 11,256,000 



In New Zealand 5,410,000 



Total for the world 5,945,846,000 



The areas of other crops in the United States are as 

 follows: Flax, 1914, 1,927,000 acres; sugar beets, 

 580,006 acres; yielding 5,659,462 tons of beets, with 

 an average production of sugar of 259 pounds per ton. 

 The total production of cane sugar in the United States 

 for 1913 was 299,698 tons, and the total domestic pro- 

 duction of sugar, exclusive of Hawaii, Porto Rico and 

 the Philippines, was 1,033,099 tons. During the same 

 period there were produced in Hawaii 546,524 tons of 

 cane sugar from 53,600 acres of cane. The total area 

 planted to cotton in the United States in 1913 is esti- 

 mated at 37,458,000 acres, yielding an average of 182 

 .pounds of cotton per acre in spite of the boll weevil. 

 Of the remaining areas not accounted for in the above 

 data, that are suitable for agricultural purposes, the 

 greater part is in meadow 48,400,000 acres and pasture. 



