Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-03-16
rh. world. Corn crop.

The Worlds Corn Crop.
The United States department Of
agriculture has just issued a statement
of the worlds corn crop for 1899. By
continents 1t is as follows: North
America, 2,210, 500 900; South America.
80, 900 900: Europe, s3S9. .S32, 900; At
rica, 33,15S, 900; Australia, 10,025, 600;
total, 2,733, OILS 900. In details thu
yields follow: United States 2,07S,-
144,O00; Canada (Ontario), 2.356. 600;
Mexico, 110.OOO,00O; Chile, 100000;
Argentina, 75.000.00O; Uruguay, 6,000,-
600; France, 10000, 900; Spain. 74.667,-
900; Portugal, 10000, 900; Italy, 1885,
900; Austria, 1858. 900; Hungary. 49,
SO7, 900; Croatia Slavonica, Il, LOG 900;
Roumania, 27,721 900; Bulgaria, A.
OO0,0 900; Servia, IL, 900 900; Russia, 3d.
$4,000; Algeria, 100000; Egypt, 3o.-
100000; Cape Colony, 2.S5S,000; Aus
tralasia, 10,025,0O
The statistics are incomplete, as a
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.
Useful official figures from the prin-
cipal corn-producing countries are now
for the first time available for max
ing an estimate of the quantity OF
corn produced in the world in the cal
endar year, 1899. From a 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, ,015 900 bushels, an increase
of 67,522, 900 bushels over the crop of
| 1898 and of $50, ,421 900 bushels over
that of 1897 but a decrease of 231, ,420,-
| 600 bushels from the crop of 1896 and
101, 100000 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
Eve years-1S95 to 1899-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
a 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 a 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, z, 1853 $50,
900 bushels.
Second in Importance a corn pro-
ducer, but rather in an absolute than
in a relative sense, is the continent
of Europe. Confined by climatic linn
! itations to the southern part Of the
continent, principally to countries and
portions of countries lying between
the forty-eighth parallel of north lati-
tuue and the coastal boundary on the
south, the crop has within these linn
it's 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 o1
Russia it has become an integral part
of agriculture. The average annual
crop of the European continent fol-
the five years ending with 1899 was
AL, ,4z6, 900 bushels, about 10 per cent
of the average crop of the world.
There is an obvious lack of abso
lutte completeness in corn statistics o
. the western hemisphere, due to an in
ability to obtain either official or com
msrcia1 figures from Central America
and from some countries of Soutl
America, in which countries corn /,
| known to be the chief article in tn
dietary of the masses; but, the omis
sion is unavoidable