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READINGS IN RURAL ECONOMICS 



TABLE 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 



15.0 

 2 5-3 



0.40 



740 

 22.0 



1 3-9 

 10.8 



75.0 

 567.2 



29.4 



r 3-9 

 28.6 

 S3.6 

 1.26 

 o-37 



702 

 2 4-3 

 14-5 

 131 

 28.7 

 83.8 



7 So. 1 

 7.8 



412.7 

 1,030.4 



28.1 

 12.5 

 3 [ -9 

 93-o 

 1.28 



o-39 



7SS 

 26.S 



13-9 



12.4 



26.3 



79.1 



SS4.9 



9-5 

 19.4 



I 1.2 

 7.2 



IO.9 

 6-5 



97 



!> 2 39 

 1,258 



*,55 2 

 1,445 

 i,3So 



59-3 



7,004 

 21.8 



25.9 



T 5-4 



2S.6 



106. 1 



o-33 



815 



22.5 

 16.9 

 '34 

 35-S 

 92.4 

 911. 1 



9-4 

 10.S 

 14.0 

 10.8 

 J 3- T 

 3-7 

 5-5 

 22.3 

 1.78S 

 1.129 

 1,252 

 -075 

 ',3-9 

 1,109 

 242.1 

 97S.6 

 2,136 

 i9-3 



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 



