STATISTICS OF WHEAT AND OATS. 



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populations in the United States and in ]\Ianitoba are considered together; 

 and if the Avheat were distributed among- all the people of the United States, 

 it would supply nearly a bushel for each individual. But no more than a 

 quarter part of the arable ])rairie land of this laciistrine area is now under 

 cultivation in all ci-o))s, the proportion being greater in the United States 

 and less in Manitoba. When all this area shall be brought into agricultiire, 

 the wheat product will probably be almost or quite 200,000,000 liushels 

 yearly, but the ratio to the population of the Red River Valley will be 

 smaller than now. 



All the wheat raised in this district is sown in the spring, none being 

 "winter wheat," sown in the fall. The kernel is plump and hard, yielding 

 in the "roller mills," with the present perfected processes of manufacture, 

 the finest, whitest, and most salable flour of the world. Nearly every city 

 and large village in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Manitoba, has one or 

 more flouring mills; but far the greater part of the wheat crop is shipped 

 eastward, by way of Duluth, Superior, and Port Arthur, to milling cities on 

 the Great Lakes, excepting the large fraction which is marketed in Minne- 

 apolis, whose flouring mills have a daily capacity of about 30,000 barrels. 



Production of oats in the year 1890 in comities of Minnesota lying mainly 

 within the Bed Bicer Valley. 



Production of oats in the year 1S91 in counties of North Dakota lying 

 mainly within the Bed Biver Valley. 



shels 

 per acre. 



Bichland 



Cass 



Traill 



Grand Forks. 



Walsh 



Pemhina 



Total . . 



24, 355 

 70, 095 



33, 689 

 38, 334 

 33, 341 



34, 546 

 234, 960 



901, 135 

 2, 777, 3 

 1,494,949 

 1, 854, S40 

 1,476,215 

 1, 579, 246 

 10, 083, 788 



39.29 

 44.37 

 48.40 

 44.28 

 45.71 

 42.90 



