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their farm products. The wheat grown by them amounted to 59 
per cent, of that grown in the Union, while of corn they raised 53 
per cent. 
The relative amount of these staples produced to the population, 
was in different parts of the country in 1870, as follows: 
New England produced to each inhabitant.quarts.. 9 1-5 
Middle States produced to each inhabitant.bushels.. 4 1-5 
Western States produced to each inhabitant.do... .16 04. 
The product of corn to each inhabitant at the same time was for 
New England. 
Middle States. 
Western States....... 
Western States, 1872 
bushels... 2.1 
...do_ 7.7 
. ..do_*33.1 
...do.... 52.2 
A comparison of the production of these cereals in all the states 
and territories, with that of the Western States during the last 
twenty years shows a much more rapid increase in the production 
of the west, than in the whole country taken together. There 
were raised of wheat to each inhabitant in the 
1850. 1860. 1870 
United States.bushels.. 4.3 5.5 7.4 
Western States. do.... 8.6 11.7 16.0 
Showing that while production in the whole country iucreased 
but 75 per cent, to each inhabitant, that of the Western States in¬ 
creased 86 per cent., or 11 per cent, more rapidly. During this 
same period the quantity raised to each inhabitant decreased in 
both the New England and Middle States. 
The product of corn to each inhabitant during the same time 
and including the yield of 1872, was in the 
1850. 1860. 1870. 1872 
United States.bushels.. 26 1-8 26 19.7 28.3 
Western States. do.... 39.4 42.1 33.1 52.2 
This is an average gain of 8.4 per cent, to each inhabitant for the 
United States, and for the Western States 32.5 per cent. Or the 
increase in the amount of corn raised to each inhabitant, was in 
the latter, nearly four times greater than that of the whole coun¬ 
try, notwithstanding the fact that this was also the period of the 
* The corn crop af 1869—census of 1870—was an unusually poor crop. 
