AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



to be profitably raised in regions too far removed 

 from the markets of the country to be transported 

 in that form. By condensing the Indian corn 

 to one-fifth or one-sixth of its bulk and weight, 

 and reducing the cost of transportation in some- 

 thing like a similar proportion, the possibility is 

 secured of raising Indian corn in regions situated 

 thousands of miles from the market at which 

 the corn products or, what is practically the same, 

 the pork and beef are consumed." 1 



Maize is produced primarily for the feed lot. 

 Only 18.7 per cent, of the maize crop of the 

 United States, for 1903, was shipped out of the 

 county where it was grown. 2 Twenty-eight and 

 six-tenths per cent, of the oat crop 3 and 57.9 per 

 cent, of the wheat crop 4 was shipped out of the 

 county where grown. But the proportion of the 

 maize crop which is fed varies greatly in the difr 

 ferent parts of the country. The farmers of Illi- 

 nois produced 264,087,431 bushels of maize, in 

 1903, 52.8 per cent, of which was shipped out of 

 the county where it was grown, and 41 per cent, 

 of which was yet in the hands of the farmers on 

 March i, 1904; whereas the Iowa farmers pro- 

 duced 229,218,220 bushels of maize in the same 

 year and only 6 per cent, of their crop was shipped 



1 Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance, February, 

 1900, p. 2279. 



2 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1903, p. 588. 

 8 Ibid., p. 607. 



*Ibid., p. 598. 



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