UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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BULLETIN No. 515 



Contribution from the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 

 LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief. 



Washington, D. C. 



February 12, 1917 



CORN, YIELDS PER ACRE AND PRICES, BY STATES, 

 50 YEARS 1866-1915. 



The year 1915 completes the first 50 years of continuous reports 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture of the yield and 

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

 figures relating to corn have been assembled in this circular for 

 reference and as an historical record of one phase of American agri- 

 culture. 



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, Massachusetts, 

 Ehode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Penn- 

 sylvania; North Central, East — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mchigan, 

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

 North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas; South Atlan- 

 tic — 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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