REPORT OF THE STATISTICIAN. 



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YIELD PER ACRE OF CORN. 



Diagram XV indicates, by States, the yield per acre of com in tho 

 last census year. There are annual variations in yield, from drought 

 or other causes, so that the State which. occupies the first place in a 

 given year may be preceded by several States in the following season. 

 In 1879 Iowa stood first and Nebraska second m rank. The basis of 

 this diagram is as follows : 



States. 



Main? , 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts .. 

 lihode Island — 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania ... 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



North Carolina.. 



Yield 

 per 



31.0 

 36.9 

 30. 5 

 33.7 

 31.4 

 33.7 

 33. 2 

 32. 4 

 33.4 

 19.3 

 24.0 

 16.5 

 12.2 



States. 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida t. 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Leuisiana 



Texas 



Arkansas 



Tennessee 



West Virginia. 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Yield 

 per 



9.0 

 9.0 

 8.8 

 12. 4 

 13.6 

 13.3 

 11.8 

 18.6 

 21.6 

 'J L !) 

 24.1 

 34 1 

 33.3 



States. 



Indiana . . . 



Illinois 



Wisconsin , 

 Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri... 

 Kansas — 

 Nebraska.. 

 California. 



Oregon 



Nevada 



Colorado. . 



Yield 

 per 

 cent. 



31.4 

 36. 1 

 88. 7 

 33. 8 

 41.6 

 36.2 

 30. 9 

 40. 1 

 27.8 

 22. 

 26. r» 

 19.8 



PRODUCT PER HEAD OF CORN. 



The distribution of corn is general. There is no State or Territory 

 in which it is not grown, yet in Massachusetts in 1879 the product is 

 only one bushel to each inhabitant, while 169 bushels per head were 

 grown in Iowa. Nebraska, Kansas, and Illinois are next in rank, each 

 having a supply exceeding one hundred bushels to each inhabitant, or 

 five hundred bushels to each family. Only one other State has half as 

 much ; Indiana has fifty-eight. The supply is thus given by States in 

 Diagram XVI: 



States. 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts . 

 Rhode Island. .. 



Connecticut 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



North Carolina. 



Supply 

 per 

 head. 



1.5 

 3.9 

 6.1 

 1.0 

 i.:r 

 3.0 

 5.1 

 9.9 

 10.7 

 26. 6 

 17.1 

 19.2 

 20. 



States. 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



Louisiana 



Texas 



Arkansas , 



Tennessee 



i West Virginia. 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Michigan 



Supply 

 per 

 head. 



11.8 

 15.0 

 11.8 

 20. 2 

 18.8 

 10.5 

 18.3 

 30. 1 

 40.7 

 22. 8 

 44.2 

 34.9 

 19.8 



States. 



Supply 



per 

 head. 



Indiana 58. 4 



Ulinois j 105. 9 



Wisconsin 26. 



Minnesota I 19.0 



Iowa ! 169.3 



Missouri ' 93.4 



Kansas lilt;. 1 



Nebraska 14 4.7 



California 2. 3 



Oregon (I. 7 



Nevada 0.2 



Colorado 2. a 



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PROGRESS OF CORN PRODUCTION. 



Diagram XVII presents in graphic outline the movement of corn- 

 growing in thirty years, at four decennial periods, in ten States of prin- 

 cipal production, at each census. It shows the center of production 

 moving northward as well as westward. In 1849 six-tenths of the crop 

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