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FIELD CROPS 



Sweden and Norway, rye is quite generally ground into flour 

 and made into bread. In fact, rye bread is one of the prin- 

 cipal articles of diet there, particularly among the poorer 



classes. Other countries 

 where large quantities of 

 rye are grown are Austria- 

 Hungary, with an average 

 annual production of 161,- 

 000,000 bushels for the 

 five years from 1910 to 

 1914, and France with 

 48,000,000 bushels. The 

 average production of the 

 United States for this 

 period was 37,368,000 

 ])ushels. 



277. Production in the 

 United States. Rye is ex- 

 ceeded in value by nine of 

 our field crops, ranking 

 next above flax. The 

 average area devoted to 

 the production of rye for 

 the ten years from 1908 to 

 1917 was 2,611,000 acres, 

 with a mean yield of 16.1 

 bushels to the acre and a 

 total average production 

 of 41,227,000 bushels, 

 valued at $38,879,000. 

 Table XII shows the leading states in the production of 

 rye, with the 10-year average acreage and production in each. 

 Table XII and Figure 82 show that the greatest part of 

 the rye crop is produced in a few states, the first five mentioned 

 producing over half of the average crop. The remainder of the 



Figure 81. — Typical heads of rye. 



