PRODUCTION AND INDUSTKY
401
1910
1911
1912
Crops
1,000 Acres
1,000 Bushels
Bush, per Acre
1,000 Acres
1,000 Bushels
Bush, per Acre
1,000 Acres
1,000 Bushels
Bush, per Acre
Corn
Wheat . Oats
104,035 45,681 37,548
187,264
2,886,260
635,121
1,186,341
27-7 13-9 31-6
105,825 49,543 37,763
2,531,488 621,338 922,298
23-9 12-5 24-4
107,083 45,814 37,917
3,124,746
730,267
1,418,337
29-2 15-9 37-4
Total .
4,707,722
— [193,131
4,075,124
190,814
5,273,350
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The chief wheat-growing States (1912) are (yield in thousands of Imshels) : Kansas, yielding 92,290; North Dakota, 143,820; Minnesota, 67,038; Ne- braska, 55,052; Indiana, 10,080; Ohio, 9,760; South Dakota, 52,185 Illinois, 9,819 ; Missouri, 23,750; Pennsylvania, 22,320; California, 6,290 Washington, 53,728; Oklahoma, 20,096; Oregon, 21,018; Texas, 11,025 Michigan, 7,000; Maryland, 8,985; Kentucky, 6,860 ; Tennessee, 7,077.
Other crops in 1911 and 1912 were : —
1911
1912
Crops
Acres
Bushels
Bushels per Acre
Acres
Bushels
Bushels per Acre
Rye . . .
Barley . Buckwheat . Flaxseed Rice (rough). Potatoes
2,127 000 7,627,000
833,000 2,757,000
696,300 3,619,000
33,119,000 160,240,000 ]7,549,0!0 19,370,000 22,934,000 i 292,737,000 1
15-6 21-0 21-1 7-0 32-9 80 9
2,117,000 7,530,000
841,000 2,851,000
722,800 3,711,000
35,664,000 223,824,000 19,249,000 28,073.000 25,054,000 420,647,000
16-8 29-7 22-9 9-8 34-7 113-4
The area on which hay was grown in 1912 was 49,530,000 acres; the crop weighed 72,691,000 tons, and was valued at 856,695,000 dollars. In 1912 the United States rice (rough) crop was as follows : —
States
Area
Yield
States
Area
Yield
North Carolina South Carolina Georgia . . Florida . . Alabama . .
Acres 1 400 8,000 \ 9('0 600 1 300 ! 2,200
Bushels
10,000 200,000 27,000 15,000 9,000 77,000
Louisiana . . . Texas .... Arkansas . . . California. . .
! Total . .
Acres 352,600 265,600
90,800 1,400
Bushels
11,812,000
9,429,000
3,405,000
■ 70,000
Mississippi .
722,800
25,054,000
The output of cane sugar in 1910-11 amounted to 696,640,000 pounds. The beet sugar production in 1910-11 amounted to 500,172 short tons.
The cotton production in 1911 (as returned by ginners) amounted to 16,250,276 bales including linters (equivalent 500 pounds), grown in the following States: Texas, 4,447,648 bales; Georgia, 2,845,799 ; Mississippi
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