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A long list of states gained in production of oats per acre in a 

 greater degree than the normal increase in population. With regard 

 to barley twenty-one states and territories are found in the similar 

 list; for rye the list of states numbers 30, for buckwheat 19, and 

 Vermont, New York, and Delaware are near the requirement for 

 admission to the list. Wisconsin is the only state that has produced 

 tobacco with an increase during the time under consideration which 

 is larger than the normal increase of population, but the increase is 

 very nearly equal to this population increase in the case of Maryland, 

 Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana, and Illinois. Increase of cotton 

 production per acre above the normal increase of population is found 

 in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Oklahoma, with a supple- 

 mentary list of four states almost able to enter the list Virginia, 

 Tennessee, Georgia, and Louisiana. 



The list of states that produced potatoes with an increase per 

 acre above the normal increase of population contains many of the 

 states in the potato belt, and the number is 24, with 4 states almost 

 eligible for admission. The largest list of states in the consideration 

 of the various crops in which production per acre exceeded normal 

 increase of population is found in the case of hay; 35 states are in 

 this list with 5 more states having increases nearly sufficient for their 

 entry, so that the hay crop of nearly the entire United States has 

 increased in production per acre faster than the normal rate of 

 increase of the population. 



A still more severe test than the foregoing may be placed upon the 

 increased production per acre of the crops under consideration, and 

 in this test the increase may be compared with the actual increase 

 of population which, as before explained, is greater than the normal 

 increase. Corn production per acre increased from 1886-1895 to 

 1896-1905 at a rate which quite or very nearly equaled the actual 

 increase of population in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir- 

 ginia, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, South Dakota, and Utah. 

 The list for wheat contains 22 states and territories distributed in all 

 parts of the United States. In the list for oats are 16 states; for 

 barley, 15 states; for rye, 21 states; for buckwheat, 18 states; for 

 cotton, only i state, Oklahoma, containing new land; for tobacco, 

 only Wisconsin; for potatoes, 15 states, all in the potato belt; and 

 for hay, 25 states and territories. 



The foregoing presentation of the information that is possessed 

 concerning the trend of agricultural production in this country in 



