AMERICA'S GRAIN CROP
'As a source of wealth, the cereal crops of the United States are bewildering in their immensity. In the season just completed, the .farmers of America have obtained .£1,11(5,000,000 worth of produce from the soil, and agriculture 'is the chief wealth of the'country, all the vast manufacturing resources notwithstanding. The "New \ork Journal of Commerce" compares the crops with those for; last year as under;— ', . Bushel's. „ Bushels. 1014. 1915. , Wheat 891,017,000 1,002,029,000. ' Corn 2,672,804,000 3,026,159,000 ' Oats 1,141,060,000 1,617,478,000 - Barley 194,953,000 236,682,000 Eye 42,779,000 44,179,000 Buckwheat 16,881,000 16,738,000 < Totals ... 4,959,494,000 5,843,265,000 ■ Some appreciation of the primitive condition of the agricultural industry in Australia may be gained from the fact that, ywhereas the areas of the two countries 'are almost equal, prior to the present sea'son, from which, greater. things ' are pro-, 'mised, the Commonwealth's production of rcereals has never exceeded 135,000,000 .bushels, against the 5,443,000,000 of the Slates. i
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 8
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151AMERICA'S GRAIN CROP Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 8
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