. Yearbook 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.
. Yearbook 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 Fig. 16.—The modern grain soparator. dpveloppci wirli the sill-liinder. Ulla,?^lling wheat from the shoclj by steam power from a traction engine. Wheat Production and Marketing. 93 Wheat productions 1879.—While production still increasesgreatly in the States east of the Mississippi River, the wheatbelt moves again steadily westward (Fig. 14). The frontierhas now advanced into the Red River Valley, and the Kansas-Xebraska development has well begun, while northern Illi-nois, southern Wisconsin, and eastern Iowa are declining inproduction. Minnesota, southwestern Illinois, and a districtincluding southern Michigan, western Ohio, and northernIndiana, have markedly increased their production. Dry-land production increased greatly in the Far West.
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