THE INFLUENCE OF CROPS UPON BUSINESS 15 



Corn .... $1,216,000,000 Oats $282,000,000 



Milk and butter 665,000.000 Potatoes 138,000,000 



Hay .... 605,000,000 Barley 58,000,000 



Cotton . . . 575,000,000 Tobacco 52,000,000 



Wheat . . . 525,000,000 Sugar cane and sugar beets 50.000,000 



Eggs .... 520,000,000 Rice 14,000,000 



With these may be compared the following estimates of the value 

 of the output in other leading industries during the same year or 

 during the latest year for which figures are available : 



Pig iron $412,000,000 



Coal 439,000,000 



Gold 86,000,000 



Silver 36,000,000 



Railroad gross receipts 1,906,000,000 



Railroad net earnings 639,000,000 



The output of corn usually bulks three or four times that of 

 wheat ; and, although the price per bushel is considerably less, 

 the value of the corn crop not infrequently aggregates a sum more 

 than twice that of wheat, more, too, than the total value of the 

 crops of wheat and cotton combined. 1 The annual output of corn 



1 Estimated value of the leading American crops, from reports of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture (millions of dollars) : 



l8 93 

 1 8 94 

 1S95 

 1S96 

 1897 

 1898 

 ]S 99 

 1900 

 1 90 1 

 1902 



i93 



:<)c 4 

 100; 



591 

 554 

 544 

 491 

 501 

 552 

 629 



921 

 1017 



952 

 10S7 

 1 1 16 



213 



3 10 



428 



392 

 3'9 

 323 

 467 



422 



443 

 510 

 5iS 



263 

 262 

 269 



287 



294 

 260 



357 

 469 



4M 

 453 

 587 

 ,86 



* Farm value December I. 



t As reported by Henry G. Hester, secretary New Orleans Cotton Exchange. 



