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BULLETIN 618, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBTCULTUBE. 
Table I. — Estimated annual production of durum and of all other vjheats and the percent- 
age of durum in the total wheat production in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South 
Dakota in the eight years from 1909 to 1916, inclusive. 1 
[Production expressed in thousands of bushels*(000 omitted).] 
State and kind of wheat. 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
8-year 
aver- 
age. 
Minnesota: 
2,810 
54, 284 
2,624 
61,376 
1,494 
42,441 
2,334 
64, 704 
1,692 
66,348 
990 
41,985 
1.400 
72,020 
613 
26,942 
1,745 
53, 763 
Percentage of durum in 
total 
4.9 
4.1 
3.4 
3.5 
2.5 
2.3 
1.9 
2.6 
3.1 
North Dakota: 
19. 176 
97,606 
6.276 
32. 224 
11.126 
62,074 
17,884 
125.936 
10. 302 
68, 553 
10.389 
71.203 
22.000 
129.970 
7.275 
32,050 
13, Oil 
77,452 
Percentage of durum 
16.4 
16.3 
15.2 
12.4 
13.1 
12.7 
14.5 
18.5 
14.4 
South Dakota: 
15,845 
31,215 
15,231 
31,489 
3,404 
11,396 
14.343 
37, 842 
9,535 
24,440 
6,724 
24,842 
14,500 
49, 262 
2.999 
21,826 
10.323 
29.039 
Percentage of durum 
in total 
33.7 
32.6 
23.0 
27.5 
28.1 
21.3 
22.8 
12.1 
26.2 
Total of all three States: 
Durum wheat 
ther wheat. 
37,831 
,183, 105 
24,131 
125,089 
16.024 
115,911 
34,561 
228, 482 
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21,529 18,103 
159,341 138,940 
37,900 
251,252 
10, 887 
80,818 
25,121 
160.225 
Percentage of durum 
in total 
17.1 
16.2 
12.1 
13.1 
11.9 
11.6 
13.1 
11.9 
13.6 
i These figures are estimates made in the Bureau of Crop Estimates of the United States Department 
of Agriculture, except for 1909, for which year they are taken from the Thirteenth Census. 
In 1909 the total production was 39,958,947 bushels. In 1910 and 
1911 the production was reduced by severe drought to about 
24,000,000 and 16,000,000 bushels, respectively. With a short crop 
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Fig. 3. — Outline map showing the acreage of durum wheat in 1915 in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, 
South Dakota, and Montana. Each dot represents 5,000 acres. (Data from the Bureau of Crop Esti- 
mates, United States Department of Agriculture.) 
and increasing demand, durum prices became about equal to those 
of common wheat. In 1912 the production was again increased to 
slightly less than 40,000,000 bushels, the price remaining equal to that 
