8 BULLETIN" 618, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table I. — Estimated annual production of durum and of all other wheats and the percent- 

 age of durum in the total wheat production in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South 

 Dakota in the eight years from 1909 to 1916, inclusive. 1 



[Production expressed in thousands of bushels«(000 omitted).] 



State and kind of wheat. 



1909 



1910 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



1916 



8-year 

 aver- 

 age. 



Minnesota: 



2,810 



51,284 



2,624 

 61,376 



1,494 



42,441 



2,334 



64,704 



1,692 



66,348 



990 

 41,985 



1,400 

 72, 020 



613 

 26,942 



1,745 





53, 763 







Percentage of durum in 



4.9 



4.1 



3.4 



3.5 



2.5 



2.3 



1.9 



2.6 



3.1 







North Dakota: 



19,176 

 97,606 



6,276 

 32, 224 



11,126 

 62, 074 



17, 884 

 125, 936 



10, 302 

 68,553 



10,389 

 71,203 



22, 000 

 129.970 



7,275 

 32,050 



13,054 



77, 452 







Percentage of durum 



16.4 



16.3 



15.2 



12.4 



13.1 



12.7 



14.5 



18.5 



14.4 







South Dakota: 



15,845 

 31,215 



15,231 



31,489 



3,404 

 11,396 



14,343 



37,842 



9,535 



24,440 



6,724 

 24,842 



14,500 

 49,262 



2,999 

 21,826 



10,323 

 29,039 









Percentage of durum 



33.7 



32.6 



23.0 



27.5 



28.1 



21.3 



22.8 



12.1 



26.2 







Total of all three States: 



37,831 



24,131 



125, 089 



16,024 34,561 

 115,911 228,482 



21,529 

 159, 341 



18, 103 

 138,040 



37,900 

 251,252 



10, 887 

 80, 818 



25,121 



* Percentage of durum 



183,105 



160, 225 



17.1 



16.2 



12.1 1 13.1 



1 



11.9 



11.6 



13.1 



11.9 



13.6 



1 These figures are estimates made in the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, except for 1909, for which year they are taken from the Thirteenth Census. 



In 1909 the total production was 39,958,947 bushels. In 1910 and 

 1911 the production was reduced by severe drought to about 

 24,000,000 and 16,000,000 bushels, respectively. With a short crop 















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Fig. 3.— Outline map showing the acreage of durum wheat in 1915 in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, and Montana. Each dot represents 5,000 acres. (Data from the Bureau of Crop Esti- 

 mates, United States Department of Agriculture.) 



and increasing demand, durum prices became about equal to those 

 of common wheat. In 1912 the production was again increased to 

 slightly less than 40,000,000 bushels, the price remaining equal to that 



