. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 27.—Corn is the great American cereal, constituting alwut 60 per cent of thetonnage of all cereals grown in the United States, and over 50 per cent of the than half of this crop is produced in the Corn Belt; but corn is the leading cropin value also in the Corn and Winter Wheat Belt, and is the all-important cereal inthe Cotton Belt. Corn a very productive crop, yielding, in general, alx)ut twice asmany pounds of grain per acre as wheat, oats, barley, or rye. The climate and soil ofthe Corn Belt are peculiarly suited to it. Probably no other area
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 27.—Corn is the great American cereal, constituting alwut 60 per cent of thetonnage of all cereals grown in the United States, and over 50 per cent of the than half of this crop is produced in the Corn Belt; but corn is the leading cropin value also in the Corn and Winter Wheat Belt, and is the all-important cereal inthe Cotton Belt. Corn a very productive crop, yielding, in general, alx)ut twice asmany pounds of grain per acre as wheat, oats, barley, or rye. The climate and soil ofthe Corn Belt are peculiarly suited to it. Probably no other area in the -world ofequal extent produces so much food per square mile as the Corn Belt. (See Figs. 21and 104.). Fig. 28.—In the Corn Belt most of the corn is fed to hogs, cattle, and horses on thesame farm that it is grown (see figs. 89, 81, and 76) ; but a considerable quantity,amounting to 41 per cent of the crop in Illinois in 1919, and about 30 per cent in lowaiSouth Dakota, and Nebraska, is sold to nearby farmers, is shipped to consumers in theSouth and East, is exported largely through Chicago and the Atlantic ports, or is madeinto starch and glucose. The corn which the map indicates as sold from the farms Maryland, and several Southern States, consists mostly of sales to neigh-boring farmers. Farms near the water front in Maryland and Virginia, however, shipcorn by water to Baltimore, whence it is exported. ?iSS Yeavhooh of the Department of Agi^ulture^ 1921, r\. s fl s:i=;s 1 i i t C 0 « s 1 3 6ia sal~ r^ % .?^ ii =1 § S « S 3 3 3 £ ££££££££\- v_ ~-v--^\ \v ^S^^s^tfk ^ a 5 1- s« 2 \ /> 1 ii^d^dlli^jJlJ^d^S ^r^ 7^ 2- 2 = 32 = cS casss 1 ass §5ssaai X
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