The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-03-08

q llo HQll1 corn crop Tor 1899 By
continents II is as follows. North
america. 2.210 500 900: South America.
10000. .0Qos Europe. ssSs S32 900; Az
rica. 3315S. .000; Australia. I0.025 900:
total. 2.7S3 .ol5. 900. In details the
yields follow United States 2.078.
$4,000; Canada (Ontario), p ,356 900:
Mexico. 110.0o0.000. Chile. 5000 900:
Argentina. 75.0o0.000. Uruguay. 6.000.-
600; France. s0.0o0. 900: Spain. 24.667.-
600: Portugal, 5000 900; Italy. s8 586.-
600: Austria, 1883 600: Hungary. 49,
$4,000; Croatia slavonica, IA .l06. COO,
Roumania. 27I2l 900: Bulgaria, IA
100000; Servia. 1890 900; Russia. s0.-
$4,000; Algeria. 100000; Egypt. 30.-
100000: Cape Colony, 2s5s 900; Aus
tralasia. lo.o25O00
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.
The government report further says:
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 fl the call
endar year, 1893. From a compara-
tive statement giving the worlds crop
from 1895 to 1899, 1t is apparent that
the aggregate for the last-named year
was 2.723. 900 bushels. an increase
Of 1922 900 bushels over the crop 81
1888 and Of 150.421 900 bushels over
that OF 1897. but a decrease Of 2s1 .420.-
geo bushels from the crop Of 1896 and
lvl,ss0,o00 bushels from. that OF 1885,
The strikingly characteristic feature
Of the corn crop Of the western hemls-
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
five years-1s95 to 1S99-has consti-
tuted about 90 per cent Of the average
product OF the western hemisphere and
almost exactly 75 per cent Of the ay-
erage crop OF the world. The corn
crop Of the United States has within
the last quarter OF a 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 nye years
enumerated in the tabulated statement
was 2.756,o57 900 bushels; and the pre-
eminence OF the western hemisphere
as a corn producer is excellently a.
lustrated BY the fact that its average
production for the same period was
over 50 per cent Of the worlds average
production or, stated II fun. 2,269 $780,
900 bushels,
Second IN Importance as a corn pro
ducer. but rather IN an absolute than
IN a relative sense, is the continent
Of Europe. Confined by climatic lin
itatlons to the southern part Of the
continent principally to countries and
portions OF countries lying between
the forty-eighth parallel Of north lad-
tude and the coastal boundary on the
south. the crop has within these lin
its become Of notable Importance. Ii
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. seryia. 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 fye years ending with 1899 was
al. .lz6.0o0 bushels, about 10 per cent
Of the average crop Of the world
There is an obvious lack Of abso-
lutte completeness IA 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 unavoldable.