482 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. 



was grown in t lie South ; in 1870 the only Southern States included in 

 the list of ten years' principal production were Tennessee, Keutucky, 

 and Missouri, while thirty years before only Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois 

 were in t lie Northern list. An examination of the figures. will show 

 great growth and remarkable changes. 



No. 



States. 



Oliio 



Keutucky 



Illinois 



Indiana 



Tennessee 



Missouri 



Virginia 



Georgia 



Alabama 



North Carolina 



1849. 



No. 



Bushels. 

 59, 078, 095 



68, 07'j, 591 



57, 646, 984 

 53, 9G4. 363 

 5-2, 276, 223 

 36, 214. 537 

 35, 254,319 

 30, 080, 099 

 28, 754, 04 8 

 27,941. 051 



States. 



Illinois ... 



Ohio 



! Missouri . 

 J Indiana .. 

 ; Kentucky 

 | Tennessee 



Iowa 



Virginia. . 



Alabama . 

 : Georgia .. 



No. 



States. 



1869. 



Illinois 



Iowa 



Ohio 



Missouri 



Indiana 



Kentucky 



Tennessee 



Pennsylvania . 



Texas 



North Carolina 



Bushels. 

 129, 921.:;9."» 

 6H, 935, 065 

 67, 501, 144 

 66, 034, 075 

 51, 094, 538 

 50, 091, 006 

 41, 343, 614 

 31, 702, 006 

 20, 554. 538 



No. 



States. 



18,454,215 ;: 10 



Illinois , 



Iowa , 



Missouri ..... 



Indiana 



Ohio 



Kansas 



Kentucky.... 



Nebraska . 



Tennessee — 

 Pennsylvania 



The proportion produced, respectively, by the ten principal corn- 

 growing- States was as follows: 





Crop of ten 

 i principal States. 



Per 

 cent. 



Crop of United 

 States. 



1819 



1869 



Bushels. 



438,882,910 



74 1 

 70.8 

 72. 1 

 78.8 



Bushels. 

 592.071. 104 

 838. 792, 742 

 760. '144,519 

 1, 754,5JJ,G7G 



EXPORTATION OF COKNT IN FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS. 



Diagram XVIII, a figure upon the same plan and scale as that illus- 

 trating the exportation of wheat, shows a similar rapidity of develop- 

 ment in foreign trade in recent years, though the volume of shipments is 

 small compared with wheat. The exports of the whole period are little 

 more than half of one year's production at the present time, being less 

 than a billion bushels, valued at 65.7 cents per bushel. The annual 

 shipments fluctuate with theprice, from two million bushels when prices 

 are high, to one hundred millions when corn is cheapest, disproving 

 the statement that Liverpool fixes the values of all our products which 

 happen to be marketed there in part. On the contrary, in the corn 

 trade, domestic prices control foreign shipments. It is another illustra- 

 tion of the fallacy of certain trite assumptions iu popular dicta of po- 



