GEOGRAPHICAL PHASES OP FARM PRICES: CORN". 9. 



STATISTICS: DISPOSITION OF AMERICAN CORN CROP. 



Over four-fifths of the crop is consumed on farms ; only one-fifth enters 

 into general trade channels, part of which is shipped again to farms. 



About one-sixth of the crop is conisumed in cities for industrial and other 

 purposes. 



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Fig. 2. — Approximate disposition of the United States corn crop. 



In Table 1 data have been assembled which bear upon factors men- 

 :ioned in the preceding paragraphs. Only about 82 per cent of the 

 3rop, on an average, is of merchantable quality. The quantity 

 shipped out of the counties where grown, constituting in 1911-1915 

 3nly 19.4 per cent of the aggregate production of the United States, 

 nay be said to represent the corn moving into general trade channels ; 

 n round numbers, only one-half billion out of the two and three- 

 luarter billion bushels. The balance remaining in the counties where 

 [^rown, S0.6 per cent, consists principally of the corn consumed on 

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