UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 514 



Contribution from the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

 LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief. 



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Washington, D. C. 



February 13, 1917 



WHEAT, YIELDS PER ACRE AND PRICES, BY STATES, 

 50 YEARS 1866-1915. 



The year 1915 completes the first 50 years of contmuous reports 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture of the yield and 

 value of important crops in the United States, by States. The 

 figures relating to wheat have been assembled in this circular for 

 reference and as an historical record of one phase of American 

 agriculture. 



In the following pages the figures under yield represent bushels 

 per acre; under price, the prevailing price paid to producers on or 

 about December 1 ; and under value, the product of the given yield 

 and price figures. 



The States included in the several divisions on pages 2 and 3 

 are: North Atlantic — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Penn- 

 sylvania; North Central, East — Ohio, Indiana, lUinois, Michigan, and 

 Wisconsin; North Central, West — Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North 

 Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas; South Atlantic — 

 Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South 

 Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; South Central — Kentucky, Tennessee^ 

 Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas; 

 Far West — Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 

 Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. 



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