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New Jersey and Pennsylvania, producing far less than their 

 consumption, are nearer the source of supply, reducing the 

 value to about $18 per acre. In the Southern States, except 

 Arkansas, the prices are below the national average, the 

 supply being nearly equal to requirements, grown on a 

 superficially cultivated area of cheap lands and, therefore, at 

 a low rate of yield. 



OATS. 



Averages of Ten Years (1880-89). 



The average yield per acre in the whole country is given 

 as 26. G bushels, and the average value per acre as $8.16. 

 The average yield per acre in Massachusetts is given as 29.9 

 bushels, and the average value per acre as $14.44. Wash- 

 ington leads in yield per acre, with 36.0 bushels, followed 

 by Illinois, with 34.2 ; Minnesota and Vermont, with 33.1 ; 

 and Montana, with 32.6. The lowest are North Carolina, 

 with 9.5 ; Georgia, with 9.8 ; and Florida, with 10.2. In 

 average value per acre Nevada leads, with $18.15 ; followed 

 by Montana, with $15.24; Idaho, with $15.09; and- Wash- 

 ington, with $15.08. The lowest are North Carolina, Avith 

 $4.56; Virginia, with $4.73; Tennessee, with $5.20; 

 Georgia, with $5.85; and Nebraska, with $5.78. All the 

 others are over $6.00. In the South the crop can only be 

 grown in the winter, and the average yield is reduced by the 

 custom of growing more for winter grazing than for seed. 

 The increase in area of oats has been extraordinary, the 

 breadth doubling in a little more than a decade. The prin- 

 cipal breadth in oats is in the States of the northern border. 



RYE. 



Averages of Ten Years (1880-89). 

 The average yield pei' acre for the whole country is 11.9 

 bushels, and the average value per acre is $8.27. The 

 average yield per acre in Massachusetts is given as 14.3 

 bushels, and the average value as $12.46. In yield per acre 

 Colorado leads, with 17.1 bushels, followed by Oregon, with 

 15.9; Illinois, with 15.5; and Kansas, with 15.2. The 

 lowest arc South Carolina, with 4.6 ; Georgia and Alabama, 



