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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



TABI^E 1. CROP YIELDS PER ACRE IN THE UNITED STATES, 

 FROM THE CENSUS REPORTS 



Major crops 



Corn (bushels) 



Wheat (bushels) 



Oats (bushels) 



Potatoes (bushels) 



Hay and forage (tons) 



Cotton (bales) 



Minor crops 



Tobacco (pounds) 



Barley (bushels) 



Buckwheat (bushels) 



Rye (bushels) 



Rice (bushels) 



Sweet potatoes and yams (bushels) 



Hops (pounds) 



Flax (bushels) 



Kafir corn and millo maize (bushels) 



Dry edible beans (bushels) .... 



Sugar beets (tons) 



Sugar cane (tons) 



Sorghum cane (tons) 



Dry peas (bushels) 



Peanuts (bushels) 



Strawberries (quarts) 



Blackberries and dewberries (quarts) 



Raspberries and loganberries (quarts) 



Cranberries (quarts) 



Currants (quarts) 



Gooseberries (quarts) 



Broom corn (pounds) 



Hemp (pounds) 



Chicory (pounds) 



Mint (pounds) 



28.1 

 13.0 

 25-3 



0.40 



740 

 22.0 



13-9 

 10.8 



22.7 



75-0 

 567.2 



29.4 



13-9 

 28.6 

 83.6 

 1.26 

 0-37 



702 



24-3 

 14.5 



I3-I 



28.7 



83.8 



780.1 



7-8 



412.7 

 1,030.4 



28.1 

 12.5 

 31-9 

 93-0 

 1.28 



0-39 



26.8 



13-9 

 12.4 

 26.3 

 79.1 

 884.9 



9-5 

 19.4 

 II. 2 



7.2 

 10.9 



6.5 



9-7 

 23.2 

 1,701 



1.239 

 1,258 



1.552 

 1,445 

 1,380 



509-3 

 7324 

 7,004 



25-9 



15.4 



28.6 



1 06. 1 



1-35 



0-33 



815 

 22.5 

 16.9 

 134 

 35-8 

 92.4 



911. 1 



94 

 10.8 

 14.0 

 10.8 

 13-1 

 3-7 

 5-5 

 22.3 



,788 



,129 



,252 



:.o75 



.329 



,109 



242.1 



978.6 



:,i36 

 19-3 



large areas of arid land were brought into cultivation. The aver- 

 age yields on this new land are lower than those in the older 

 states. Hence the yields of later years are lowered, not by the 

 exhaustion of the soils in the older states, but by the addition of 

 new land with low yields. It is therefore misleading to quote the 



