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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1884 The investigations of the past year show\a tendency to farther in crease of the area of corn and cotton and of most of the principal crops of the country. The wheat area is so much beyond the requirements of consumption in this and other countries as to depress the price to a point unprecedented in recent years, favoring at certain points the use of wheat in feeding for pork production. The cause of this super abundance is two-fold - first, the extension of settlement in the north western prairies and the dry plains of the Pacific coast; and, second, the extraordinary period of comparative failure of European wheat for several consecutive years. The progress of settlement must be less rapid hereafter, and already the lean years of Europe have been fol lowed by comparative plenty. These facts of products and prices point to the sharp necessity of adapting production to consumption, to supply food products now im ported, to give remunerative employment to agricultural labor and food in variety, and cheapness to consumers. The present year's history of cr0p growth, in the records of this Bu reau of the statistics of agriculture, indicates a production above the average, a season of peculiar prosperity, with no serious failures. Drought alone, in a portion of the producing area, has wrought some reduction of the rate of yield. The cotton crop has been somewhat in j ured by this cause, yet the crop promises nearly bales. Corn apparently averages about 26 bushels per acre, which is about the average of the prior period of ten years, giving a crop not heretofore exceeded in absolute quantity. Wheat has made a yield of fully 13 bushels per acre, and a product exceeding The supply of cereals will average fully 50 bushels for each inhabitant. Potatoes of both kinds are fairly abundant, and other products generally in full supply. Altogether, the year is one of positive, if not exceptional, fatness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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