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AmeiHcan Farm Crops. 
ing per acre for the produce ■which has tended so much to depress 
the British corn markets in that period. The'table on page 645 sho-ws 
the average yield and return per acre for wheat, based on the results 
of the past ten years, in each State and territory of the American 
Union, except Louisiana, where no wheat is grown. 
For the purpose of comparison I have worked out from the official 
figures the avei-age value per acre of the wheat -crop in Great 
Britain in each of the past seven years, from which it appears that 
the gross return in this country is nearly three times as much as 
in the United States : — 
Tear 
Yield per acre 
Price per quarter 
Average value per acre 
bushels 
s. 
£ 
1. 
d. 
1884 
29-96 
35 
i 
6 
13 
5 
1885 
31-31 
32 
10 
6 
9 
1 
1886 
26-89 
31 
1 
5 
4 
1 
1887 
32-07 
32 
6 
6 
10 
2 
1888 
28-05 
31 
11 
5 
11 
6 
1889 
29-89 
29 
10 
5 
11 
4 
1890 
30-74 ■ 
31 
11 
6 
2 
3 
Average value of wheat-crop per acre for seven years in 
Great Britain 
As regards the other farm crops of which particulars are given, 
a few brief notes must suffice. 
Oats are grown in every State and territory except Arizona : 
the range of yield per acre being from 34-2 bushels in Illinois, to 
9-5 bushels in North Carolina. Generally speaking, the Xorthem 
and Western States grow much larger crops than the Southern States. 
The value per acre ranges from 3^. 15s. 7d. in Nevada, to 19s. in 
North Carolina. 
Eye is grown in all the States except Arizona, Florida, Montana, 
Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Colorado stands first, both 
as regards yield and value per acre, the former being 17-1 bushels, 
and the latter, 21. 13s. Zd. Tennessee gives the lowest value per 
acre (19s. '2d.), and South CaroKna the lowest yield, 4-6 bushels. 
Barley is not grown in Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, or Wyoming. In Maryland the crop has the highest 
value per acre (4^. 5s. 3!^.), but several other States have a better 
average yield, the highest being 29-1 bushels, which is attained in 
far-away Washington. It will be observed that barley gives a con- 
siderably larger return per acre than -svheat on the general average. 
If we compare the figures for each of these crops for the various 
States, this is still more noteworthy ; practically, it is only in a few 
of the Northern States on the Atlantic coast — such as Maine, New 
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, itc, that wheat 
gives a higher return than barley. In no less than 31 out of the 
