10 BULLETIN 59-4, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
New England States. — This section is almost completely de- 
pendent for its wheat supplies upon shipments from the "West. The 
small quantity of wheat ground indicates that practically the entire 
deficit is supplied in the form of wheat flour. The movement to 
this division consists not only of some 33 million bushels required 
for its consumption, but includes also an additional 25 million bushels 
of wheat exported from its seaports, less than 3 million bushels more 
in the form of wheat flour, and a few million bushels of Canadian 
transit wheat. 
Middle Atlantic States. — The dominating influence of the three 
States in this section is shown by the fact that half the gross surplus 
of the country is drawn here for consumption and export, as well as 
millions of bushels of Canadian wheat. The section contains the 
largest population but produces scarcely one-fourth of its requirements 
for food and seed. Only a third of its production enters into the 
shipments out of counties where grown, indicating local consumption 
for seed, in custom mills, etc. Its flour mills grind about twice the 
quantity of wheat produced. Shipments to this group of States, 
supplying a deficit of 117 million bushels, are augmented by 50 million 
bushels in the form of wheat flour and 65 million bushels of wheat 
for export, chiefly via Xew York: also by nearly 50 million bushels 
of Canadian wheat, shipped in bond. 
South Atlantic States. — The requirements are about double the 
local production. Virginia and Maryland produce about 60 per cent of 
the wheat in the eight States of this section and bring up the average. 
The small fraction of the crop shipped out of counties where grown 
suggests local consumption for seed and in custom flour mills, no 
data for the latter being available. "Wheat ground in merchant 
mills is less than production. The two northern ports in this section, 
Baltimore and Xewport Xews. draw in addition about 20 milli on 
bushels for export. 
East South Central States. — The two States of Kentucky 
and Tennessee produce practically all of the wheat in this division. 
and also mill nearly ah of the product that enters into merchant mills. 
As a section, the figures show production equal to half of the require- 
ments: the sinall percentage of shipments out of counties where 
grown indicates local consumption and use in custom mills. The 
wheat flow to this section is largely in the form of wheat flour. Very 
little wheat is exported from its ports. 
West South Central States. — Oklahoma produces nearly 60 per 
cent of the crop of this section, and the small percentage which is 
ground in Oklahoma merchant mills indicates its shipment unmnled. 
The section considered in its entirety raises about SO per cent of its 
requirements for food and seed. The trade current to this group 
supplies a net deficit of some 12 million bushels and includes some 
35 million bushels of wheat and 7 million bushels equivalent of wheat 
