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one-quarter in Germany. In these two countries and in 

 Sweden and Norway, rye is quite generally ground into flour 

 and made into bread. In fact, rye bread is one of the prin- 

 cipal articles of diet 

 there, particularly among 

 the poorer classes. Other 

 countries where large 

 quantities of rye are 

 grown are Austria- 

 Hungary, with an aver- 

 age annual production of 

 154,000,000 bushels for 

 the five years from 1906 

 to 1910, and France with 

 52,000,000 bushels. The 

 average production of the 

 United States for this 

 period was 32,454,000 

 bushels. 



291. Production in the 

 United States. Rye is 

 exceeded in value by 

 ten of our field crops, 

 ranking next below flax. 

 The average area devoted 

 to the production of rye 

 for the ten years from 

 1902 to 1911 was 1,979,- 



.., Fig. 77. Typical heads of rye. 



000 acres, with a mean 



yield of 15.9 bushels to the acre and a total average pro- 

 duction of 31,305,000 bushels, valued at $20,910,000. The 

 table which follows shows the leading states in the produc- 

 tion of rye. 



