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CORN 



Texas ranked seventh with 4.7 per cent of the entire crop or 130,146,000 

 bushels. Kansas stood eighth with 4.4 per cent, or 120,415,000 bushels. Ken- 

 tucky stood ninth with 3.4 per cent, or 94,123,000 bushels. And tenth Ten- 

 nessee with 3.0 per cent, or 83,311,000 bushels. The standing of the other 

 states may be taken from the preceding charts. 



As has already been intimated, the future increase in the production of 

 corn in this country depends upon something more than increased acreage. 

 We must now look to our seed selection, cultivation and crop rotation. 



VALUATION OF THE CORN CROP 



The proceeds from a single year's production of corn in the United 

 States, considering only the raw product, would pay off our national debt. 

 If the entire annual crop were to be moved at one time the transaction would 

 take over one-third of all the money in circulation in this country. In 1914 

 the crop was valued at $1,722,070,000. If this crop were to be paid for in 

 silver it would require twenty-two trains of lOO cars, each of 40,000 pounds 

 capacity, to haul the silver. Or if these silver dollars were placed face to 

 face as one would arrange them in a pile, it would form a solid silver rope 

 over 2,000 miles long. 



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CHART NO. 6. 



THE VALUE OF THE CORN CROP AS COMPARED WITH THE 



ENTIRE VALUE OF ALL CEREAL CROPS IN THE 



UNITED STATES, 1866-1914. 



Millions of Dollars 



Per cent of value 

 All Cereals 



56.9 

 55.1 

 51.9 

 52.2 

 49.7 

 54.1 



Black portion of bar represents value of corn. 

 Entire length of bar represents value of all 

 cereals. 



NOTE — The valuations designated in the above chart represent an av- 

 erage for periods indicated to left of chart. 



From the preceding chart we find that the value of the corn crop is greater 

 than that of all other cereals combined. For the past fifty years it has aggre- 

 gated, approximately, 54 per cent of the entire value of all cereals, including 

 corn itself. 



