. Yearbook of agriculture . The frontier advanced but little onto the Great Plains. Small increasesoccur in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, while dry-land productionbegan in eastern Washington. ?> ^ WHEAT PRODUCTION1879 f EACH CX>T REPRESENTS r^ > i i WHE.\T PRODUCTION, 1879 1 ) ^~^^.— ^ -41^ ^f^ -tSTG -??? \ ., ^ ~~^~^—1 W-: - iSTATE 1 BUSHELS f STATE BUSHELS r ^\ 1 ; ;ind . , . ,853 Mo . .»Kio-- : Wu. .. Mich. ,543 1 Pa. . Other . ,62724,884,68919,462,,707 ;! .1459,483,3
. Yearbook of agriculture . The frontier advanced but little onto the Great Plains. Small increasesoccur in the Rocky Mountains and Great Basin, while dry-land productionbegan in eastern Washington. ?> ^ WHEAT PRODUCTION1879 f EACH CX>T REPRESENTS r^ > i i WHE.\T PRODUCTION, 1879 1 ) ^~^^.— ^ -41^ ^f^ -tSTG -??? \ ., ^ ~~^~^—1 W-: - iSTATE 1 BUSHELS f STATE BUSHELS r ^\ 1 ; ;ind . , . ,853 Mo . .»Kio-- : Wu. .. Mich. ,543 1 Pa. . Other . ,62724,884,68919,462,,707 ;! .1459,483,37 ._ Pig. 14.—Wheat production in the United States in The frontier hasmoved steadily westward across the prairies with large production in Kansasand Nebraska. Dry-land production in California, Oregon, and WashingtonHicreased greatly. Production increased also in Minnesota, southwesternIllinois. Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. 99912°—YBK 1921 7 92 Ycarhooh of the Department of Agriculture, Fig. lo.—Tliite Luodfin iself-liiDdeis in operation. This inveulioii )le the great expansion of wheat production on the prairies andplains. year is due to an unfavorable season. A network of rail-roads now covers the States of the Central West, drawingwheat from the farms in the hearts of these States. ^yheat production^ 1869.—The States west of the AUe-ghenies almost doubled their production in the decade 1859-1869 (Fig. 13). The most significant feature is the greatincrease in production in the regions already occupied. Thefrontier advanced but little. Small beginnings had beenmade in Colorado, Montana, and eastern Washington. Thefirst transcontinental railway was just completed and otherroads had been extended into Kansas and Minnesota. Chi-cago and JNIilwaukee had become the great central marketsof the near XortliAvest.
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