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BULLETIN 229. 



YIELDS, MARKETS, PRICES AND INCOMES. 



Yields. The following tables will give some of the chief points. In 

 computing yields one barrel is taken as three bushels. This is a little too 

 high an estimate, but this basis had to be used as it is the one used by 

 farmers and on which many of the yields were reported by them. 



TABLE 22. 

 Approximate total yield for the entire county. 



1889 (U. S. Census report) 

 1899 (U. S. Census report) 



1900 



1901 



1902 



1903 



1904 



Bushels. 



321,726 

 1,391,630 

 3,663,000 



958,000 

 3,770,000 

 3,405,000 

 4,317,000 



The estimates for the last five years were obtained by multiplying the approximate 

 area of 15,200 acres (page 465) by the average yields (table 23). To determine the 

 number of barrels, compare these yields with the per cent barreled (table 26). The 

 yield for 1904 may be too high as there may have been a tendency for those who 

 had a small crop not to reply to the letter requesting that year's yield. 



TABLE 23. 

 Average yield per acre in bushels. 



TABLE 24. 

 Average yield per tree. 



Average 4.6 



These results were obtained by dividing the average yields per acre (table 23) by 

 the average number of trees per acre (table 15). 



