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BULLETIN 594, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 
Mountain division still receive relatively high prices for their wheat, 
but in wheat-exporting regions of this division the lowest farm prices 
prevail. 
As an illustration, in figure 5 the course of price differences 
between Pennsylvania, an importing State, and Minnesota, an 
exporting wheat State, has been plotted. The difference in the 
price per bushel at the first period (1871-1875) was 52 cents; at 
the last (1911-1915), 11 cents. 
Similarly, in figure 6 the course of prices in Idaho, showing a 
transition from a State producing insufficient wheat at the beginning 
of the period to its present status as an exporting State, has been 
compared with that of Oregon, an exporting State. When a defi- 
ciency State the disadvantage of its position resulted in a wheat price 
in Idaho 115 per cent of the United States average; and as an ex- 
porting State, disadvantageously situated as to wheat markets, its 
ratio has declined to 83 per cent of the average; but Oregon, a 
consistently exporting State, has increased its price ratio from 83 to 
94 per cent. 
Details are shown in Table IV. 
Table IV. — Farm prices of wheat, 1871 to 1915. 
[A review, by States and sections, of the trend of geographic price differences.] 
State and geographic division. 
Farm prices per bushel, in 5-year 
averages. 
Measurement of changes in percent- 
ages of the United States average 
as base (100 per cent). 
1911- 
1915 
1901- 
1905 
1891- 
1895 
1882- 
18861 
1871- 
18752 
1911- 
1915 
1901- 
1905 
1891- 
1895 
1882- 
1886 l 
1871- 
1875 
United States 
Cents. 
87 
Cents. 
72 
Cents. 
60 
Cents. 
78 
Cents. 
102 
P.ct. 
100 
P.ct. 
100 
P.ct. 
100 
P.ct. 
100 
P.ct. 
100 
New England 
104 
99 
94 
85 
110 
106 
93 
86 
85 
100 
86 
79 
67 
93 
90 
79 
81 
71 
90 
76 
62 
53 
79 
76 
69 
68 
59 
122 
97 
81 
66 
100 
98 
94 
91 
75 
151 
131 
102 
81 
136 
.124 
132 
""162* 
120 
114 
108 
98 
126 
122 
107 
99 
98 
138 
119 
110 
93 
129 
125 
110 
112 
99 
150 
127 
103 
88 
132 
126 
115 
113 
98 
156 
124 
104 
85 
128 
125 
121 
117 
96 
148 
Middle Atlantic 
128 
East North Central 
West North Central 
South Atlantic 
100 
79 
133 
East South Central 
West South Central 
122 
129 
Pacific „ 
100 
New England: 
Maine 
107 
99 
93 
130 
158 
123 
137 
155 
167 
155 
Vermont 
101 
100 
86 
115 
144 
116 
139 
143 
146 
141 
Middle Atlantic: 
99 
101 
97 
98 
95 
93 
95 
90 
87 
86 
84 
83 
81 
77 
81 
75 
78 
78 
73 
65 
61 
59 
65 
60 
97 
99 
96 
87 
82 
78 
83 
76 
131 
136 
127 
110 
102 
95 
114 
87 
114 
116 
HI 
113 
109 
107 
109 
103 
121 
119 
117 
115 
112 
107 
112 
104 
130 
130 
122 
108 
102 
98 
108 
100 
124 
127 
123 
112 
105 
100 
106 
97 
128 
New Jersey 
133 
Pennsylvania 
125 
East North Central: 
Ohio 
108 
100 
93 
112 
Wisconsin 
85 
1 1882-1886 taken instead of 1881-1885 in view of availability of statistics for a larger number of States 
beginning 1882. 
2 Values reduced to gold basis. 
