FOOD AND LAND TENURE.
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Grain growing States of the Northern Mississippi Valley.
Total Area of Land of the United States Devoted to Maize (Indian Corn), Wheat and Oats. Crop of 1900.
| Square Miles. All States. |
12 Mississippi Valley States. |
All other States. |
Crop Bushels. | |
| Maize | 125,500 | 77,794 | 47,706 | 2,105,102,516 |
| Wheat | 66,400 | 40,984 | 25,416 | 522,229,505 |
| Oats | 42,754 | 30,478 | 12,276 | 809,125,989 |
| Total | 234,654 | 149,256 | 85,398 | 3,436,458,010 |
Crop of 1900.
| Acreage. | Product. | Average per Acre. | |
| Ohio | 1,420,646 | 8,523,876 | The crop of 1900 was below the average per acre of the last ten years. The crop of 1898 was 675,148,705 bushels at 15.3 bushels per acre. The crop of 1901 is officially estimated at 704,000,000 bushels and will probably be more.
In 1900 the product of the United States, 522,229,505, was substantially 20 per cent, of world's product of 2,586,025 bushels. The land devoted to wheat was 2.3 per cent, of the total area, omitting Alaska. |
| Indiana | 1,209,755 | 6,411,702 | |
| Illinois | 1,383,230 | 17,982,068 | |
| Michigan | 1,219,969 | 9,271,764 | |
| Wisconsin | 849,458 | 13,166,599 | |
| Minnesota | 4,905,643 | 51,509,252 | |
| Iowa | 1,397,322 | 21,798,223 | |
| Nebraska | 2,066,825 | 24,801,900 | |
| Missouri | 1,507,737 | 18,846,713 | |
| Kansas | 4,660,376 | 82,488,655 | |
| North Dakota | 2,689,023 | 13,176,213 | |
| South Dakota | 2,920,244 | 20,149,684 | |
| 26,230,234 | 288,126,649 | ||
| All other States | 16,265,151 | 234,102,856 | |
| 42,495,385 | 522,229,505 | 12.29 bushels per acre. |
