UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 514 
Contribution from the Bureau of Crop Estimates. 
LEON M. ESTABROOK, Chief. 
Washington, D. C. ▼ February 13, 1917 
WHEAT, YIELDS PER ACRE AND PRICES, BY STATES, 
50 YEARS 1866-1915. 
The year 1915 completes the first 50 years of continuous reports 
by the United States Department of Agriculture of the yield and 
value of important crops in the United States, by States. The 
figures relating to wheat have been assembled in this circular for 
reference and as an historical record of one phase of American 
agriculture. 
In the following pages the figures under yield represent bushels 
per acre; under price, the prevailing price paid to producers on or 
about December 1 ; and under value, the product of the given yield 
and price figures. 
The States included in the several divisions on pages 2 and 3 
are: North Atlantic — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu- 
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Penn- 
sylvania; North Central, East — Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and 
Wisconsin; North Central, West — Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North 
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas; South Atlantic — 
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; South Central — Kentucky, Tennessee, 
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas; 
Far West — Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, 
Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and California. 
71299°— Bull. 514—17 
