The Leon reporter., 1901-03-07
Tho WORLDS Corn cror.

Tho Worlds Corn cror.
The United States department OF
agriculture has just issued statement
of the worlds corn crop for 1899 BY
continents it is as follows: North
America, 2,21O,5O00 900; South America,
90,0OO,000; Europe, $Ss9, 1892 900; AZ
rica, 3S,15S,00O; Australia, 1O,O25, 900;
total, 2,73S,O15,OOO. In details the
yields follow: United States 2,O7S,-.
$4,000; Canada (Ontario), 22,356, 900;
Mexico. 110.OOO,OOO; Chile, 100000;
Argentina. 75,000.0OO; Uruguay, 6,OOO,-
900; France. 3O,OOO,OOO; Spain, 24,667,-
900; Portugal, 16.0oO,o0O; Italy, 1885,
600; Austria, 14,5S3,00O; Hungary, 49,
100000; Croatia Slavonica, 14,1O6,O0O
Roumania, 27.721 900; Bulgaria, a.
100000; Servia, 15,0O0,OOO; Russia, 30,-
$4,000; Algeria, 100000; Egypt, 30,-
100000; Cape Colony. 2,S5S,OOO; Aus
tralasia, 1o.o25,OO0.
The statistics are incomplete, as
good many countries raise maize that
are not reported in the above. For
instance, the figures from Canada COM
prise only the statistics Of corn raised
in Ontario. Central America is omit
ted altogether. Some corn is being
raised in Asia, but none is reported.
The government report further says:
Useful official figures from the prin-
clpal corn-producing countries are now
for the first time available for maxi
ing an estimate of the quantity of
corn produced in the world In the cal
endar year. 1899. From compara-
tive statement giving the worlds crop
from 1895 to 1899, it is apparent that
the aggregate for the last-named year
was 2,723,O15,0O0 bushels, an increase
OF 67,522,000 bushels over the crop Of
1888 and of 150,421, 900 bushels over
that of 1897. but decrease of 231, ,42O,-
ooO bushels from the crop of 1896 and
ol,330,0O0 bushels from that of 1895.
The strikingly characteristic feature
OF the corn crop of the western hemis-
phere, and to an almost equal extent
OF the corn crop of the world, is the
large proportion Of the crop produced
in the United States. The average
production of this republic during the
i've years-1S95 to 1S99-has consti-
tuted about 80 per cent of the average
product of the western hemisphere and
almost exactly rs per cent of the av-
erage crop of the world. The corn
crop of the United States has within
the last quarter of century attained
magnitude which makes it more
than double in quantity any other
single cereal crop of this or any Other
nation Of the world.
The average annual production of
corn in the world for the five years
enumerated in the tabulated statement
was 2,756,057, 900 bushels; and the pre-
eminence Of the western hemisphere
as corn producer is excellently IL
lustrated by the fact that it's average
production for the same period was
over 80 per cent of the worlds average
production or, stated in full, 2,269, $780,.
600 bushels.
Second in Importance as a corn pro-
ducer, but rather in an absolute than
in relative sense, is the continent
of Europe. Confined by climatic lin
itations to the southern part of the
continent, principally to countries and
portions of countries lying between
the forty-eighth parallel of north .ati-
tuue and the coastal boundary on the
south, the crop has within these lin
its become of notable Importance. In
Austria Hungary, the second corn
producing country Of the world, and
in Roumania, it is the principal cereal
crop. In portions of southern France,
in Spain. Portugal. Italy, Servia, Bull
garia. and in the southern part of
Russia, it has become an integral part
of agriculture. The average annual
crop of the European continent for
the five years ending with 1899 was
AL ,4z6,000 bushels, about 10 per cent
of the average crop of the world.
There Is an obvious lack of abso-
lutte completeness in corn statistics of
the western hemisphere, due to an in
ability to obtain either official or COM
mercial figures from Central America,
and from some countries of South
America, in which countries corn is
known to be the chief article in the
dietary of the masses; but, the omis-
sion Is unavoidable.