St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-16
A Government Statistician
Prepares an "Album OF Ag-
picultural Statistics"
With Which the Farmers May
Have a Pleasant Time
Winter Evenings.
why President Harrison Did
Not Attend Church Yester-
day Duly Chronicled.
Gen. Porter to Formally Pre-
sent Portraits Of Grant,
Sheridan and Sherman.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15,-J. X. Dodge,
statistician of the United States de-
partment of agricultural. has prepared
series of sixteen charts, preceded by
brief letter-press description and bound
as an s'album of agricultural statistics"
The basis of each is small map OF the
United States. Most of these charts
illustrate the result of the statistical
work of the department., though the
first and second show respectively the
proportions, by states, of the elements
of the total land surface, and OF the
more restricted farm area, and the SIX
teenth illustrates similarly the tenure
of farms by proprietors. tenants
paying rent, and tenants CIV
ing share of produce In
lieu of rent. In these the state differ
ences are by proportions rather than by
areas or numbers. All the other charts
carry the idea of local distribution of
the relative area of certain principal
cereals in the several states and terri
tories, and in differences in rate OF
yield of certain products, and In aver
age prices of farm animals. The differ
ences are first indicated by placing
states in five groups, each having GER
| tain range of differentiation, and giving
to each group a grade Of density in
| color and a distinct popularity OF
mechanical drawing. But for closer
comparison scale Is made
with the national average as
| zero and the percentage of each state
/ above or below this average is indicated
oil the map in plain figures, with the
plus or minus prefix, showing the re-
lation of each state to the general aver
age as we'll as to every other state aver
| age. On the margin is also placed the
tabulation upon which the graphic de-
lineation is based. In the first group in
corn growing. comprising states having
| more than 100 acres in maize in every
LOCO of the superficial area, are ten
states, viz: Iowa, with 219 acres; ILL
nois, PIT; Delaware, 176; Indiana, loI'
Missouri 149, Tennessee 1S6. Kentucky
1913, Maryland III, Kansas lib, ONO ITO
In the rate of yield of wheat the flrSt
group with ten years. average OF 16.t
bushels or more per acre includes only
the divisions of the Rocky mountains
and Pacific coast region and part o.
the New England states. In the secone
group are Michigan, New York, Ohio
Indiana, New Hampshire, Illinois,
Maine and Arizona in order. Th'
states producing the most are not thos'
with the largest proportion of surface
in wheat or the largest yield per acre
Dakota has but al acres in every LOO
and yield of 1876 bushels per acre
Analogous facts are shown in regard t
oats. The charts deal only with TIL
three cereals maize, wheat and oats
these comprising as they do 81 per cen
of the total cereal production OF tn
country. In producing the extraor
binary differences in average value Q
j farm animals the largest factor is breet
/, or blood. while feed, care and distanc
from market are other elements of var
alton.