PRODUCTION OF INDIAN CORN 



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In total value, the world's wheat crop probably ranks 

 first, the potato crop second, and thte corn crop third. 



2. Corn crop of the world. — The following tables 

 (I, II) give the world's production of corn for the past 

 five years. The data is abstracted from the Year Books 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture : — 



TABLE II 



Percentage of World's Corn Crop PRODucEif by the Con- 

 tinents, AND Principal Corn-producing CotrNTRiES. 

 For 5 Years, 1906-1910 



The world's corn crop varies from about three and one- 

 half bilhon bushels to about four bilHon bushels, or a 

 variation of 12 per cent. This rather wide variation is 



