GEOGRAPHICAL PHASES OF FARM PRICES: CORN. 9 
STATISTICS: DISPOSITION OF AMERICAN CORN CROP. 
Over four-fifths of the crop is consumed on farms ; only one-fifth enters 
into general trade channels, part of which is shipped again to farms. 
About one-sixth of the crop is consumed in cities for industrial and other 
purposes. 
Fig. 2. — Approximate disposition of the United States corn crop. 
In Table 1 data have been assembled which bear upon factors men- 
tioned in the preceding paragraphs. Only about 82 per cent of the 
crop, on an average, is of merchantable quality. The quantity 
shipped out of the counties where grown, constituting in 1911-1915 
only 19.1 per cent of the aggregate production of the United States, 
may be said to represent the corn moving into general trade channels ; 
in round numbers, only one-half billion out of the two and three- 
quarter billion bushels. The balance remaining in the counties where 
grown, S0.6 per cent, consists principally of the corn consumed on 
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