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States, Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Russia, Egypt, and 

 Australasia, in the order named. According to the Bureau 

 of Statistics of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 the average annual world production of corn for the five 

 years from 1905 to 1909 was 3,585,418,600 bushels, of which 

 76 per cent was produced in the United States. 



59. Production in the United States. The average 

 acreage, production, yield, and value of corn in the different 

 states and its general distribution are shown by the following 

 table. The relative importance of the various states in 

 production is shown graphically in Fig. 14. 



Table III. Average annual acreage, production, value, and acre 

 yield of corn in various states for the ten years from 1902 to 

 1911, inclusive. 



