GEOGRAPHICAL PHASES OF FARM PRICES: CORN. 
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Table 1. — Corn: Approximate distribution of the United States crop. 
[Figures are averages for the 5 years 1911-1915, where not otherwise noted.] 
1. Production 
2. Merchantable corn 
3. Shipped out of counties where grown (represents commercial movement 
to other than local markets) l 
4. Remaining in counties where grown (mostly farm consumption, also local 
sales) » 
5. Approximate consumption on farms (substantially item 4, plus ship- 
ments to farms) 
6. Urban consumption and exports 
7. Surplus over farm consumption of all States having such a surplus 
8. Deficiency, under farm demands, of corn-deficiency States (shipments 
from markets to farms, and local sales to farms) 
Difference — urban consumption and exports 
(See Table 2A, p. 16.) 
Percentage 
of produc- 
tion. 
100.0 
82.4 
83.4 
16.6 
19.8 
3.2 
16.6 
Bushels. 
2,766,000,000 
2,279,000,000 
536, 000, 000 
2,230,000,000 
2,307,000,000 
459,000,000 
546, 000, 000 
87,000,000 
459,000,000 
Corn remaining in counties 
where grown (item 4) 
Gross deficiency of States 
whose production is under 
requirements for farm con- 
sumption (item 8) x 
Total, approximately 
equal to total farm 
consumption 
Shipped out of counties 
where grown (item 3) * 
Deduct shipments to farms 
(item 8) 
19.4 
3.2 
Balance, approxi- 
mately equal to ur- 
ban receipts and ex- 
ports 
16.2 
Percentage 
of produc- 
tion. 
Approximate farm consump 
tion (item 5): 2 
Horses and mules 
Swine 
Milch cows 
Other cattle 
Sheep 
Poultry 
Human beings 
Seed 
Other or doubtful 
Total consumed on farms — 
Urban corn receipts and 
consumption (chiefly item 3, 
also some shipments from farms 
in same county): 
Ground in merchant flour 
mills (chiefly for human con- 
sumption, also for feed, 
etc), census of 1914 
Used, in manufacture of glucose 
or starch. Census of 1914 
Used in manufacture of dis- 
tilled spirits, fiscal year 
ended June 30, 1915 
Used in manufacture of fer- 
mented liquors, fiscal year 
ended June 30, 1915 
Exports 
Corn fed to live stock "not on 
farms," numbering (census 
of 1910): Horses, mules, asses, 
and burros, 3,470,000; dairy 
cows, 1,170,000; other cattle, 
709,000; swine, 1,288,000; 
sheep,391,000; goats, 115,000; 
estimated at 
Total of items enumerated 3 
Percentage 
of produc- 
tion. 
27.0 
26.8 
8.6 
}.4 
2.2 
3.6 
3.4 
.8 
1.6 
Bushels. 
747, 000, 000 
741,000,000 
238,000,000 
260,000,000 
61,000,000 
100,000,000 
94,000,000 
22,000,000 
44,000,000 
2,307,000,000 
6.5 
1.6 
1.4 
5.4 
16.6 
180,000,000 
44, 000, 000 
32,000,000 
14, 000, 000 
39,000,000 
150,000,000 
459,000,000 
1 These figures (items 3 and 4) show the gross movement and do not take into account the intrastate 
corn shipments between surplus and deficiency sections of the same State. 
2 Data regarding farm consumption are based upon investigations made by N. C.Murray, assistant 
statistician, Bureau of Crop Estimates. 
3 Additional quantities marketed in cities are reshipped to farms, and included in consumption on farms 
(above). 
