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FIELD CROPS 



88 cents in 1902. The average of the annual lowest prices 

 for the ten years was 44.4 cents; of the highest prices, 68 J 

 cents. 



114. Exports. Though the United States produces 

 about three-fourths of the world's crop of corn, a very small 

 portion of the crop is exported. In the five years from 

 Jan. 1, 1905 to Jan. 1, 1910, the average annual exportation 

 of corn from the United States was 76,420,000 bushels, while 



Fig. 32. Reid's Yellow Dent corn, a large, yellow variety which has been care- 

 fully selected for many years. 



Argentina exported 79,128,000 bushels annually during this 

 period. No other country was a considerable factor in the 

 world's trade in corn, the two just named furnishing about 

 two-thirds of the entire quantity. The exportation from 

 the United States represents only about 3 per cent of the pro- 

 duction during the period just mentioned, while the annual 

 exportations since 1901 have not exceeded 4.4 per cent of the 

 crop in any one year and have fallen as low as 1.4 per cent. 



