Our country and its resources; . 9 L899 L9091915 \(),859,000 ACKICILTURE 43 Wheat World production of wheat is4,216,806,000 bushels. Of this theUnited States produces ,505,000bushels, more than is grown even inRussia, the yield of which is esti-mated to be 833,965,000 bushels. Inthe United States 59,89S,000 acresare under cultivation for wheat, anincrease of over ,000 acres inthe past two years. A remarkablefact in connection with the worldswheat production is that Germany,which produces but 160,000,000 bush-els of wheat in a year, has. by anaverage of statistics for
Our country and its resources; . 9 L899 L9091915 \(),859,000 ACKICILTURE 43 Wheat World production of wheat is4,216,806,000 bushels. Of this theUnited States produces ,505,000bushels, more than is grown even inRussia, the yield of which is esti-mated to be 833,965,000 bushels. Inthe United States 59,89S,000 acresare under cultivation for wheat, anincrease of over ,000 acres inthe past two years. A remarkablefact in connection with the worldswheat production is that Germany,which produces but 160,000,000 bush-els of wheat in a year, has. by anaverage of statistics for ten years,a yield of bushels to the acre,whereas the average for the sameperiod in the United States is bushels. Hungary has an aver-age of bushels. France andthe United Kingdom land abroad is more produc-tive or methods of farming are moreintensive; nevertheless the UnitedStates easily leads the world in pro-ducing the raw material for the staffof a basis of prices as on Decem-. TAKING ON A CARGO OF WHEAT her 1st. the value of tbis wheat cropis $930,302,000. Wheat is produce.]in every State in the Union, although .Massachusetts, New Hampshire,Rhode Island, Connecticut. Floridaand Louisiana produce but Dakota is the greatest wheatproducing Sate, yielding 151,970,000bushels, followed by Kansas with106,53S,000 bushels. It is interesting to note that theaverage yield per acre in bushels
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