Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . p, or 93,000,000 bushels. Andlast came Kentucky with per cent of entire crop, or 78,364,000bushels. The standing of other states may be taken from the preced-ing charts. As has been stated before, the future increase in the production ofcorn in this country depends upon something more than increasedacreage. We must now look to our seed selection, cultivation andcrop rotation. VALUATION OF THE CORN CROP The proceeds from a single years pro
Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer and student of agriculture, a text-book for agricultural colleges and high schools . p, or 93,000,000 bushels. Andlast came Kentucky with per cent of entire crop, or 78,364,000bushels. The standing of other states may be taken from the preced-ing charts. As has been stated before, the future increase in the production ofcorn in this country depends upon something more than increasedacreage. We must now look to our seed selection, cultivation andcrop rotation. VALUATION OF THE CORN CROP The proceeds from a single years production of corn in the UnitedStates, considering only the raw product, would pay off our nationaldebt. If the entire annual crop were to be moved at one time thetransaction would take over one-third of all the money in circulationin this country. In 1907 the crop was valued at $1,336,901,000. The value of the annual corn crop as compared with all othercereals for consecutive periods beginning with 1866 is shown inthe following chart: CHART NO. 6. Value of the Corn Crop as Related to Entire Value of All Cereal Crops. 1866-1907. Millions of Black portion of bar represents value of length of bar represents value of all cereals, NOTE. The valuations designated in above chart represent an average covering entire periodsindicated to the left of chart. VALUATION OF CORN CROP. 21 From the preceding chart we find that the vakie of the corn cropis greater than that of all other cereals combined. For the past fiftyyears it has aggregated approximately 54 per cent of the entire valueof all cereals including corn itself. The value of the annual corn crop from 1866 to 1907 may be as-certained by referring to table No. 5 on page 15. It is governed large-ly by production, varying slightly with the demand. The highest average price paid for corn in this country is recordedfor 1901, and corresponds to the year of the lowest average yield. Anaverage taken over any number of
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