400 FIELD AND GARDEN PRODUCTS 



Seedsmen's Customary Weights per Bushel of Seeds. 



CORN.* 



Possibility of Doubling Present Yield. It is possible within a 

 few years to double the average production of corn per acre in the 

 United States, and to accomplish it without any increase in work or 

 expense. It is not to be understood from this statement that it is 

 desirable to double the present corn crop, but that it is desirable to 

 produce the same yield on a smaller number of acres and with less 

 labor. If 60 bushels are raised on 1 acre instead of on 2 acres, the 

 labor of plowing, harrowing, planting, cultivating, and harvesting 

 is greatly reduced. The demand controls the quantity that should 

 be grown. To meet demands the producers of the United States 

 have, during the ten years previous to 1910, averaged in round 

 numbers 2,500,000,000 bushels of corn yearly. In producing this 

 quantity a little more than 95,000,000 acres have yearly been de- 



* See alto pages 213, 231, 449, 657 for illustrations. 



