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Fie. S09. A large, heavy ear. 



the hay crop, though made up of crops of several 

 distinct plants, be considered as a single crop, it is 

 but one-half as valuable as the grain alone of the 

 corn crop. Corn holds first place in the list of 

 crops, hay second, cotton third and wheat fourth. 

 North America produces four times as much corn 

 as the remainder of the world. As continents, 

 Europe stands second. South America third and 

 Africa fourth. As a corn-producing country the 

 United States has no rival ; Argentina stands sec- 

 ond, Hungary third and Italy fourth. 



If the corn crop of the United States for 1906 

 had been placed in wagons, fifty bushels per load, 

 and allowing twenty feet of space for each wagon 

 and team, the train of corn would have reached 

 nine times around the world at the equator. 



Below are arranged the states of the United 

 States in the order of the total amount of corn 

 each state has produced in the five years 1902 to 

 1906, and again arranged according to the average 

 yield per acre for the ten years- 1897 to 1906. The 

 figures are averaged from the reports of the Bureau 

 of Statistics of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture: 



Average Corn Yields for Five Years, 1902-1906. 



Bushels 



Illinois 342,115,835 



Iowa 301,666,176 



Nebraska 239,835,262 



Missouri 210,082,426 



Kansas 183,490,628 



Indiana 165,666,854 



Texas 123,454,407 



Ohio 112,675,444 



Kentucky 91,957,099 



Tennessee 78,578,391 



Indian Territory 53,216,199 



Pennsylvania 52,337,590 



Fig. 610. A good short, erect ear. 

 Average Corn Yields for Five Years, 1902-1906- 



Continued. Bushels 



Wisconsin 49,339,658 



Arkansas 47,665,325 



Oklahoma 47,548^686 



South Dakota 45,942,636 



Georgia 45,565,769 



Minnesota 43,101,849 



Michigan 42,549,489 



Virginia 42,537,934 



Alabama 39,531,578 



North Carolina 39,263,224 



Mississippi 35,000,660 



Louisiana 23,543,048 



Maryland 20,934,903 



South Carolina 20,777,740 



West Virginia 20,404,238 



New York 18,138,662 



New Jersey 9,422,171 



Florida 6,259,542 



Delaware 5,577,944 



Colorado 2,496,071 



North Dakota 2,462,990 



Connecticut 1,920,575 



California 1,795,668 



Vermont 1,764,520 



Massachusetts 1,518,261 



New Mexico 945,294 



New Hampshire 803,600 



Oregon 449,199 



Maine 432,140 



Utah 320,660 



Rhode Island 317,845 



Washington 250,283 



Arizona . , 188,428 



Idaho 151,417 



Montana 85,842 



Wyoming 58,001 



