PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
477
1,399,923 share tenants, 128,466 share-cash tenants and 113,993 not reporting.
The estimated gross value at farm of all crops and animal products was, in 1918, 22,480,000,000 dollars; in 1919, 24,982,000,000 dollars; and in 1920 (preliminary estimate^, 22 ? 000,000, 000 dollars.
The areas and produce of the principal cereal crops for three years are shown in the subjoined tables.
191S 1919 1930
Crops
1,000 Acres
1000 Bush. Bushels J**
1,000
Acr-r*
1,000 Battels
Bash, per Acre
1,000 A. res
1,000 Bushels
Bash, per Acre
Corn Wl ( it Oats
'x,50x,666' 24-0 100,072 2,868,50* 28-«
308 934,265 12"«
> 1,638,124 34 231,754 29-4
I'M, 601 3,282.367
787,128.
43.823 1.526,0*5
MM
214,215 5,034 528 — 206,116 5,545.' —
The chief wheat-growing States (1920) are (vield in thousands of bushels) :
Kansas, yielding 137,056; North Dakota, " 68, 400 ; Nebraska, 60,480;
Oklahoma, 46,240 ; Illinois, 40,670 ; Washington, 37,982 ; Missouri, 32,721 ;
Minnesota, 29.116 ; Ohio, 28,698 ; 8outh Dakota, 26,282 ; Pennsylvania,
I ; Idaho, 23,600 ; Indiana, 28,540 : Oregon, 22,900 ; Colorado* 22, 821.
Other crops in 1919 and 1920 were :—
IM
Crops
Rye
Barley . Buckwheat Flaxseed Rice (rough) . Potatoes Sweet Potatoes
1,000 Acres.
To.'
1,092 3,062
1.042
1,000 BMbak
SB, M 161.34.%
Bushels per Acre
12-5
20-6 4-9
39-2 90-0
1012
1,000 Acres
5,043
729
1,337 3,929
1,085
1,000
B.sr.el*
M IM
13.7?..
!-:•..■>
53,710 UK <H
112,368
Bushels per Acre
13-7 x5D 18-9
«••:
40-2 109-6
103-6
The area on which tame hay was grown in 1920 was 57,915,000 acres; the crop weighed 91,193,000 tons, and was valued at 1,613,896,000 dollars. The area on which wild hay was grown in 1920 was 15,266.000 acres ; the crop weighed 17,040,000 tons, and was valued at 195,266,000 dollars.
In 1920 the United States rice (rough) crop was as follows : —
Stats*
Ana
Production
States
Area
Production
Acres
Bushels
Acres
Bushels
North Carolina
400
10,000
3,000
93.000
South Carolina
4,100
- 000
Louisiana . .
700,000
25,900,000
Georgia . . Florida . .
1,100
29,000
Texas . . .
281,000
, 9,554,000
8,000
72,000
A: ESI MM . .
181,400
S, 889,000
Missouri . .
500
25,000
California . .
162,000
9,720,000
Alabama . .
500
16,000
Total .
. 1.337.000
1 53.n0.000