EXTENT A1STD VALUE OF THE COEK 

 CKOP. 



GENERAL YIEW. The extent of the corn crop of 

 this country, and its importance in an economical and 

 commercial view, have risen to a scale of magnitude 

 that overshadows all other crops. It appears, from 

 the census of 1860, that the corn crop of that year was 

 over eight hundred million bushels, while the product 

 of wheat, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, peas, beans, 

 and potatoes, taken in their entire aggregate, was less 

 than that of Indian corn by more than three hundred 

 million bushels. Compared with the wheat crop alone, 

 the product of corn is very nearly five times greater ; 

 and when the comparison is extended beyond our own 

 country, it is found that the corn crop of the United 

 States is about equal to the wheat crop of the whole 

 earth. 



The following are the decennial returns of Indian 

 corn, as given in the census tables of the last three 

 decades : 



For 1840 377,431,874 bushels. 



1850 592,071,104 " 



1860 838,792,740 " 



