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Average composition of American ryes, arranged by States. 



The largest specimen was from Washington Territory, weighing 

 3.450 grams, the next from Minnesota, weighing 2.780 per 100 grains, 

 and the heaviest weight per bushel from Vermont, 64.1 pounds. The 

 smallest were from Iowa and Nebraska, weighing 1.300 grams per hun- 

 dred, and the lightest from New York, 56.2 pounds per bushel, the aver- 

 age for the country being 2.074 and 60.9. The largest and heaviest ryes 

 were found on the Atlantic coast and in the Northern States. The 

 Pacific slope was not well represented. 



The average weight per bushel is much higher than is usually ac- 

 cepted for rye, but the specimens in hand certainly reached those figures 

 perhaps being very clean or selected samples above the average pro- 

 duction. Illinois, which in the last census year produced more of the 

 crop than any State except New York, sends the smallest and the 

 lightest average grain. 



In chemical composition the following extremes were found : 



State. 



Lowest. 



State. 



