14 CORN 



TABLE NO. 5— Continued 



PRODUCTION OF CORN AND SMALL GRAIN BY STATES. 



Average for Five Years, 1910-1914 inclusive. (Bushels) 



By referring to Table No. 4 we find that the average yield per acre 

 has remained practically constant since the early history of our country. 

 Indeed, back as early as 1790, an average yield of thirty bushels was recorded. 

 It was possible to raise 100 bushels per acre before 1830, and old Agricul- 

 tural Society Reports show that such yields were about as common then 

 as they are today. 



Table No. 5 shows an annual production of 2,732,457,000 bushels of 

 corn, taking an average for the past five years, 1910 to 1914 inclusive, as com- 

 pared with 728,224,600 bushels of wheat, 1,157,960,800 bushels of oats, 

 183,886,600 bushels of barley, and 37,196,400 bushels of rye, or a total annual 

 production of 2,107,268,400 bushels for all cereals other than corn. 



The census report, together with the report from the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, shows that the corn grown per capita has been stead- 

 ily increasing since 1850. However there was a slight decline in the per 

 capita production during the last decade. 

 Note the following table : 



TABLE NO. 6 



SHOWING POPULATION— TOTAL PRODUCTION OF CORN AND PER 

 CAPITA PRODUCTION. 1850 TO 1910. 



