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Area planted to corn.— The preceding table* 

 gives the number of acres of corn planted in 

 the United States in 1893, number of bushels 

 of grain grown, and its value. The corn crop 

 for 1894 was the smallest, with one .exception, 

 harvested in the past fifteen years, being almost 

 390,000,000 bushels less than the average for 

 1890-1894, and over 490,000,000 bushels less than 

 the average crop of the ten years 1880-1889. 

 For this reason the 1893 yield of the several 

 States is given, instead of the 1894: 



The average rate of yield, 22.5 bushels per 

 acre, is the lowest for ten years, with the ex- 

 ception of the years 1886, 1887 and 1890. It is 

 only a little lower, however, than that of 1883, 

 which was 22.7, or two-tenths of a bushel 

 greater. The average value per bushel is 36.5 

 cents, which is 2.9 cents, or about 7 per cent 

 lower than the value of 1892. This value is 

 6.1 cents less than the average of the ten.jears 

 1870-1879, 2.8 cents less than that of the de- 

 cade 1880-1889, and 6.6 cents below the average 

 value of the three years 1890-1892". In the ten 

 years preceding only four crops, viz., those of 

 1884 (35.7), 1885 (32.8), 1888 (34.1), and 1889 

 (28.3), have had a lower average value. 



Magnitude of corn crop. — The significance 

 of the corn crop of the United States, as cover- 



*From December, 1893, report of of the Statistician of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture. 



