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INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 



ing a term of years, can be best shown in the 

 following table:* 



Statistics of yield and price. — The table on 

 next page, prepared from the reports of the 

 Statistician of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture and the United States census, 

 has a special interest as bearing on the two pre- 

 ceding tables. 



-The exports of Indian corn from the United 

 States have been and are comparatively small. 

 From 1870 to 1893 there has been exported each 

 year 3.8 per cent of the entire crop grown, as an 

 average for that period of years. The greatest 

 percentage amount exported in one year — 6:5 

 per cent — was in 1877, while the smallest 

 amount, 1 per cent, was exported in 1870, al- 

 though the amount was only 1.7 per cent in 



* Report of Statistician of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Report 3, December, 1894, p. 720. 



