34 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 1921, 



Fig. 31. — The United States produces about one-fifth of the world's wheat, as com 

 pared with three-flfths of the world's corn and cotton. The wheat crop of the United 

 States, measured in bushels, is usually from one-fourth to one-third of the corn crop. Half 

 of the wheat crop was grown in six States in 1919. Kansas was the leading State, as 

 usual, but North Dakota, which has often ranked first and is usually second, had a very 

 poor crop in 1919. On the other hand, both acreage and production were unusually 

 large that year in the southern portion of the Corn Belt and northern portion of the 

 Corn and Winter Wheat Region. (See Fig. 2.) 



