REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



477 



PRODUCT OF WHEAT PER HEAD. 



The relative prominence of wheat, as a crop, in the several political 

 divisions, is shown by Diagram X. It illustrates the extremes of sup- 

 ply, from little more than half a pint to each inhabitant in Louisiana to 

 forty-four bushels in Minnesota. It exhibits in a glaring light one as- 

 pect of specialties in agriculture, or one-idea farming. The product 

 per head for each division in 1879 was as follows : 



States. 



Maine | 1.0 



>' ew Hampshire : . 5 



Vermont ; 1.0 



Massachusetts ! .01 



Rhode Island . Ool 



Connecticut ' .6 



2s'ew York j 2.3 



Hew Jersey ; 1.7 



Pennsylvania 4. 5 



Delaware 8.0 



Maryland . ; 8 6 



Virginia ! 5.2 



Korth Carolina j 2. 4 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama. 



Mississippi .... 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Arkansas 



Tennessee 



West Virginia. 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Michigan 



1.0 



2. 

 .002 



1.2 

 .2 

 .01 



1.6 



16 



4.8 



6.5 



6.9 

 14.4 

 21.7 



States. 



Product 



j».r 

 capita. 



Indiana ! 23. 9 



llliuois i 16.6 



Wisconsin ' 16. !) 



Minnesota ■ii.'A 



Iowa 19 3 



Missouri i II. 5 



Kansas 17. I 



Nebraska j 3;>. 6 



California ! 7. 'i 



Oregon : 33.6 



Nevada 43.8 



Colorado 1.1 



EXPORTATION OF WHEAT IN FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS. 



Diagram XI presents a pyramidal form illustrating both quantityand 

 value of wheat exported since 1825, the base line measuring the value 

 in millions of dollars oa the right, and the quantity in millions of bush- 

 els on the left, while the horizontal bars furnish new bases for similar 

 measurements for each period of five years. 



The diagram also shows separately the wheat and flour exported, the 

 latter of course reduced to bushels of wheat. Fifty years ago the ex- 

 ports were mainly flour: in later years grain has so preponderated that 

 in the whole period more than six-tenths have been in unmanufactured 

 wheat. The entire value exceeds two and a half billions of dollars; 

 enough to buy one fourth of the farms of the United States. Half of 

 this value is represented by the shipments of nine years; in a single 

 year the export has surpassed in value all the foreign trade in wheat 

 i'rom 1825 to 18G0. The trade has been an extraordinary development, 

 principally of a few years of European scarcity from a series of crop 

 failures. This sudden movement has been checked, and a sharp retro- 

 grade has resulted from better crops in foreign countries, causing heavy 

 reduction in prices of wheat. While there is no probability in Euro- 

 pean counties, of a home supply equal to that of thirty years "ago, there 

 is no prospect of high prices for wheat in the immediate future. 



