The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-26

.SOU'TH'S INCREASE
IN GROWING ! GRAIN.
Statistics for the Last Forty Years
Show Expansion in Corn,
Wheat and Dat Crops.
AVERAGE HELD MUCH LARGER
Not Only Greater Acreage Gull
tivated, but Return Shows
Steady Advancement.
AVERAGE YIELD MUCH LARGER
Not Only Greater Acreage Gull
Steady Advancement.

BALTIMORE, MD. July 25.-statis-
tics OF the past forty years Of the pro-
duction OF corn. wheat and oats In the
South are. the basis for an interesting
exhibit OF progress made in this weeks
Issue 81 the Manufacturers Record OF
general increase In Southern grain
production. It SAYS
The actual production OF grain Is
hardly safe measure OF the advance.
The average Yield per acre gives the
real cue TO the productivity. While
not equAling In average yields per acre
the average yields OF the country, the
South as a, whole has, nevertheless.
more than kept pace with the rate of
increase in the whole country. In the
forty years between 1866 and 1906 the
average yield per acre OF corn had an
Indicated Increase from 25.3 to 30.3
bushels, or 1871 per cent, in the whole
country. and in the South from 1868 to
20S bushels. or IS per cent. The aver
age yield per acre OF wheat had an In
dicated increase from 80 bushels to
1916 bushels. or 5e.5 per cent. in. the
whole country. and from 6.5 to 1913
bushels. or S9.2 per cent, In the South,
and the Indicated increase in the aY-
erage yield Of oats was from 800 to
3l.2 bushels, or 3.S per cent. in the
whole country and from 1913 to 24.1
bushels, or 24.s per cent. In the South.
Acreage of States.
THE acreage in corn in the South
Increased from 16,311.162 to 35,o02.003
acres. every state sharing hut the
most notable advances being from
7so61o to e9s4.s57 acres In Texas;
from 4so.T22Sto 2.237.397 acres In Ar
kansas; from 150,so8 to 625, 900 acres In
Florida: rom 4O6.473 to ]. 524,281 acres
In Louisiana; from s21.63 to 2,204.s22
acres In Mississippi, and from ], 021.3o7
to i ,935.347 acres In South Carolina.
The average yield per acre Increased
in all the States except Arkansas, Flor
ida and Texas.
ALA ama. Georgia and mississippi
were the onlyS std tss5 showing a de-
crease in ncrea ges4devoted to wheat,
the great increases being from 153.ea4
to 1,22s,364 acres In Texas: from 10 .769
4 to ais, 2S4 acres IN South. Carolina \ from
E31I4278 to S1s,624 acres In Kentucky:
from Se,s67 to 6177,s3S acres in Arkan
sas. and from 451,929 to 806,40 acres
In Maryland, The total increase OF
wheat acreage In the South was from
States except Texas Increased the 8ay-
erage yield per acre. One typical Aef-
feet OF this is indicated by the fact
that while In 1866 Ala bama raised
$657, 96O bushels from ] Is. 4 80 acres, or
an average of ST. bushels to the acre,
in 100 1T raised I ,0s 4, 020 bushe lst from
96,639 acres, or m ayerag OF eleven
Bushels to- the a ere; and y that EGeorgl g,
which raised 1,272,4568 bushels In SO
from 8 s,114 acres, or four. us J he's e
THE acre, inN18O6 raised 49, ISL, o bush.
els from u acres, or ten pushels
to the acre 5isf s5sSl
3.SSss'The acreage In oats In ~ 206 was
nearly 80 per cent, less than in a $50,
but the9increase between Is 66E a nd ID O6
was from a ,6S2,9165 to Z, g 9,l193 acre s.
The most marked ID creases were from
s265,269 to 31.s34 acres in MARYLAND;
from s 25Ssto82 60,S1S acres II. the two
Virgtnias and from 206,2O Ito .662
acres in North Carolina, The average
lucky, Maryand q and Il the two Yirginias,
but nevertheless the advance n the Az NJ
aerage Yield for6s The VIII ale South was
much beyond the advance for the whole
country IL ~ sgs s;l iS3
h Il NIntchc : Mi West. 4!
s1"southern experience In this respect
is matched by tho expert ence lns the
older grain rails Inc IS tHtes of TIL e Middle
West. ohiostheS old est@of them. raised
thirty u bus CHS OF corr TO- enc aGt g
In is sc. and 4 2.6 sbu shells In 4 0a, 81 In
the forty years ~ Increased its corn
acrea & from "a, 626,4saY tob 3,a2bs000
acres, and sits pro uctint III from %, 66.
822 IA ,e46 600 b ushel 81 IN IN eat
itsincrensed $its Ia leld per acr iron, II 9
TO r GA bl shel al nd In ga ts fro iii 3 avg
To 81, 8 bus hels Oliios IN he on X ne
of the Ave S tat ea- II In OILS, Ind Ian q,
Iowa, II Iss ansas and SO hio7in I'D lcating IN
Increased syield par ore q = oats an the
forts " ear 81 tles ~ 10 lYe
ISarsaa had an. 1ya lcat inSreas sos
slkans 40 sre Il " sSo the tl N