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000 omitted acreage ACRES Argentina Austria-Hungary Aver bales beef cattle Bureau bushels Calif calves cent Chicago Colo Corn Belt cost Cotton Belt countries cows crop Dakota Department of Agriculture DOT REPRESENTS estimates Exports Farm price Farm value farmers feed feeder ship forest grades grain grown horses Idaho Illinois Imports increased Iowa July June Kans labor land live stock long tons lowa markets million Minn Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Monthly Nebr Nebraska North North Dakota NUMBER NUMBER OF FARMS Ohio Okla Oklahoma Oreg P.ct pasture pounds price per bushel Receipts Region sands season seed Sept shipments Short tons silage slaughter South Carolina spring wheat steers Stocker and feeder TABLE Tenn Texas Thou tion tons Total U. S. Department United Kingdom Utah Virginia West western winter wheat Wisconsin yearly yield per acre York
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Strana 18 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Strana 783 - Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. • Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. • Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California.
Strana 778 - In a few countries where data for only one or two vears were obtainable), and these average yields were reduced to their percentage of the average yield of all countries. The percentages for each country were combined, weighted in proportion to the relative acreage of the various crops in the country, to obtain the index number of production. Following is the result obtained, 100 representing the weighted average of all countries: TABLE 298.
Strana 16 - ... and farm management, University of Minnesota; JA Foord, agriculture and farm management, Massachusetts Agricultural College; JI Falconer, rural economics, Ohio State University; RL Adams, farm management, University of California; GI Christie, assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and representatives of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, the Bureau of Markets and the Office of Farm Management of the Department of Agriculture.
Strana 8 - I 1913 products from the farm to the consumer's table has increased tremendously during the past three years. The freight charge is very nearly doubled, and in some cases more than doubled. When wheat was selling at $2.50 per bushel, corn at $1.75, cattle and hogs at $16 to $22 per hundred, cotton DIVISION BETWEEN THE FARMERS.
Strana 783 - Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Missouri North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Delaware...
Strana 8 - The freight charge is very nearly doubled, and in some cases more than doubled. When wheat was selling at $2.50 per bushel, corn at $1.75, cattle and hogs at $16 to $22 per hundred, cotton at 30 cents per pound, the increased freight rate was not a serious matter. It amounted to but few cents relatively and was a small item in the total price. But with wheat at $1, corn at 48 cents, cattle and hogs at $7 to $10 per hundred, cotton at 17 to 20 cents (all these being primary market prices, not farm...
Strana 340 - Arkansas, western Tennessee, and northern Louisiana, and into Texas and Oklahoma. The densest production of cotton is found on the soils most suitable for its production in the center of this belt. (Figs. 9 and 13.) Both soil and climate are very important factors in the determination of areas suitable for cotton production. About two-thirds of the Cotton Belt consists of a broad coastal plain, composed principally of sedimentary materials, bordering and largely derived from two ancient and mucheroded...
Strana 133 - August in the 10-year period (1911-1920) and nearly threefourths of the entire crop in the first six months of the cropmovement year, namely, from July to December, inclusive. The lower part of Figure 53 shows the progressive monthly receipts at 11 principal markets in the North Central States, and the exports from the country. Market receipts are seen to agree well with the movement from farms, but exports are much more evenly distributed throughout the year. Financing Wheat Storage and Movement....
Strana 314 - The next largest quantity, or 24 per cent, was consumed in the east-north-central division. In other words, more than 55 per cent of the total consumption of beef and veal occurred in the territory east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio River and Maryland. The smallest total consumption occurred in the South Atlantic division, comprising the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Per capita consumption showed almost as wide...