hundred and eighty-four million for which we must, in the form of grain or flour, seek a foreign market. The best European authorities estimate the deficiency in foreign crops at one hundred and seventy-five million bushels. Leading English statistics claim that England will need one hundred and twenty million to supply her regular import, and the damaged crop of 1880, that France will need one hundred million, Norway and Sweden ten million bushels, and that all of this deficiency over and above hundred and seventyfive million bushels will be made up from the surplus of the crops of Russia, Austria, and India. The acreage yield and value of this crop in the United States during the past ten years has been as follows: The average annual acreage, yield, and value for the same period has been: Acres. 26,474,000 Yield. 32,965,800 Value. $317,141,000 During the same decade the annual crops of Pennsylvania has been as follows: The average annual acreage, yield, and value has been: Acres. 1,284,010 Yield. 18,136,200 Value. $22,411,100 When represented upon a scale of five million bushels per inch, the yield of each year and the average annual yield may by this be shown: 1871, ... 1872, 1873, 1874, 1876, 1877. 1878, 1879, 1830..... Aver'ge The annual yield per acre during the same period has been as follows: When represented upon a scale of five bushels per inch, the comparison is thus shown: If, by a combination of yield per acre and price per bushel we obtain the cash value of the crop per acre, and institute a comparison upon a scale of six dollars per inch, we have the following: When the annual average yield of Pennsylvania for three years is compared with that of eight of the largest wheat producing States for the same year, and the comparison made upon the scale of five bushels per inch, we have the following: Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Pennsylvania Indiana, California, Illinois. ... Minnesota,.. Iowa, Average, 3 BD. AG. |