CROP insueance: risks, losses, etc. 7 



Table 1 . — Average annual crop damage from specified causes, in percentage of normal 

 yield, by geographic divisions , for decade 1909-1918 — Continued. 









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weather conditions. 





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East Nortli Central 



19.01 



10.89 



1.99 



.27 



.71 



.04 



.53 



.14 



2.27 



.09 



.57 



.01 



1.50 



West North Central 



21.89 



19.11 



1.52 



.36 



.20 



.17 



1.03 



.09 



1.30 



.05 



.40 



.03 



.63 



South Central 



22.10 



14. 63 



2.61 



.61 



.19 



.07 



.72 



.21 



.79 



.13 



.23 



.02 



1.89 



Far West. . 



18.91 



11.88 



1.33 



.25 



1.16 



.25 



.42 



.22 



.77 



.17 



1.00 



.46 



1.00 







Total 



20.35 



13.44 



1.74 



.31 



.62 



.11 



.58 



.15 



1.45 



.10 



.52 



.08 



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Cotton: 





























South Atlantic 



27.09 



6.60 



6.75 



1.10 



1.99 



.48 



.99 



.60 



.77 



3.03 



2.85 



(a) 



1.93 



South Central 



38.83 



14.53 



3.42 



1.03 



1.05 



.48 



1.75 



.75 



.57 



1.61 



12.35 



.03 



1.26 



Total 



35.49 



12.29 



4.34 



1.05 



1.32 



.48 



1.56 



.71 



.60 



2.00 



9.67 



.02 



1.45 







o Less than 0.005 of 1 per cent. 



The purpose of Table 1 is to bring out the relative degree of se- 

 verity of the different hazards, or causes of damage, with reference 

 to each of the crops enumerated for the country as a whole as well 

 as for the various geographic divisions. Thus, in the case of corn, 

 deficient moisture represented the most severe hazard during the 

 10-year period, not Dnly for the country as a whole, but also for each of 

 the geographic divisions. Excessive moisture represented the second 

 most severe hazard for the country and for four of the six geographic 

 divisions. Frost was the third most severe hazard, insect pests the 

 fourth, and hot winds the fifth, considering the country as a whole. 

 None of the other specified causes represented as much as 1 per 

 cent of damage for the entire country, although the damage or loss 

 from floods exceeded this amount in the South Atlantic and South 

 Central States, and hail damage was more than 1 per cent of the 

 crop damage in the Far Western States. 



The purpose of Table 2 is to show quantitative damages on a plan 

 similar to that by which damages are given on a percentage basis in 

 Table 1. The figures in Table 2, therefore, represent not only the 

 relative severity of the hazards or causes of damage in each case, but 

 also the importance, from the point of view of acreage or volume, of 

 the given crop, in the division or in the entire country as the case' 

 may be. This explains why some causes of loss appear relatively 

 important for given crops in certain divisions in Table 1 and rela- 

 tively unimportant for the same crop in the same divisions in Table 2. 

 According to Table 1, for example, an average of 1.12 per cent of the 

 corn crop was lost annually in the far western division through the 

 occurrence of hail, which was a higher percentage of hail damage 



