. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 332 CORN CROPS The crop practically trebled in thirty years. Broom-corn, culture has always been concentrated to certain rather limited regions : Four States in 1879 —Ilh- nois, Kansas, Missouri, and New York — produced 80 per cent of the crop. In 1889 four States, the first three named above and Nebraska, produced 89 per cent of the crop. In 1899 the last-named four States and Oklahoma produced 90 per cent of the crop. In 1899 Illinois alone, which has been the le
. The corn crops: a discussion of maize, kafirs, and sorghums as grown in the United States and Canada. Corn; Kafir corn; Sorghum. 332 CORN CROPS The crop practically trebled in thirty years. Broom-corn, culture has always been concentrated to certain rather limited regions : Four States in 1879 —Ilh- nois, Kansas, Missouri, and New York — produced 80 per cent of the crop. In 1889 four States, the first three named above and Nebraska, produced 89 per cent of the crop. In 1899 the last-named four States and Oklahoma produced 90 per cent of the crop. In 1899 Illinois alone, which has been the leading State in broom-corn production for forty years, produced per cent of the entire crop in the United States, while per cent of the entire crop was grown in three counties. The twenty-two counties of the United States produc- ing more than 1000 acres each are shown in the fol- lowing table, as reported by the Twelfth Census: — Fig. —Broom-corn, sorghum, and hybrid between the two : a, broom-corn; h, hybrid; c, black-seeded Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Montgomery, Edward Gerrard, 1878-. New York, The Macmillan company
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