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TABLE 3. Commercial af-reuyr. accrayc yield per acre, commercial 

 jinn] uct ion, and estimated commercial cvnzuniption of 

 seed for the United States Continued. 



It will be noted that a marked increase in acreage is 

 reported for 1918 for garden beet, mangel beet, carrot, 

 onion, radish, spinach, winter squash, English turnip, and 

 Swede turnip seed. Unfortunately, no figures approaching 

 in completeness those given in Table 3 are available for the 

 prewar period, but there is no question that the acreage 

 of the above-mentioned crops, as well as many others, in any 

 one year of the prewar period, was in almost every case 



