. Geographical phases of farm prices : corn. able, but represents a small fractionof the production. The relative consumption in one section compared with anotheralso varies greatly. By States, the per capita production variesfrom less than 1 bushel to 159 bushels. The per capita consump-tion for all purposes varies almost as widely. An average ofnearly one and one-quarter billion bushels, or a little less thanhalf the total production, is consumed in the North Central Statesfor feeding purposes alone. Comparatively trifling quantities areconsumed west of the corn belt. In general, outside of
. Geographical phases of farm prices : corn. able, but represents a small fractionof the production. The relative consumption in one section compared with anotheralso varies greatly. By States, the per capita production variesfrom less than 1 bushel to 159 bushels. The per capita consump-tion for all purposes varies almost as widely. An average ofnearly one and one-quarter billion bushels, or a little less thanhalf the total production, is consumed in the North Central Statesfor feeding purposes alone. Comparatively trifling quantities areconsumed west of the corn belt. In general, outside of the corn States,a much smaller proportion is devoted to feeding purposes, because ofdeficient supply and relatively high price. GEOGRAPHICAL PHASES OF FARM PRICES: CORN. 9 STATISTICS: DISPOSITION OF AMERICAN CORN CROP. Over four-fifths of the crop is consumed on farms; only one-fifth entersinto general trade channels, part of which is shipped again to farms. About one-sixth of the crop is consumed in cities for industrial and Fig. 2.—Approximate disposition of the United States corn crop. In Table 1 data have been assembled which bear upon factors men-tioned in the preceding paragraphs. Only about 82 per cent of thecrop, on an average, is of merchantable quality. The quantityshipped out of the counties where grown, constituting in 1911-1915only per cent of the aggregate production of the United States,may be said to represent the corn moving into general trade channels;in round numbers, only one-half billion out of the two and three-quarter billion bushels. The balance remaining in the counties wheregrown, per cent, consists principally of the corn consumed on55985°—18—Bull. 696 2 10 BULLETIN 696, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. farms where it is produced, and a small percentage of sales to localfeeders and local markets. The major part of the crop never leavesthe farms on which it is raised. The census for 1909 reported 23per cent of the corn
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