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Show 1904] PRODUCTS 49 ! total supply of the world, and in the preceding year a yet higher percentage, whereas it furnished almost sixty per cent, of the world's export. Oats also are of high importance/ the crop for 1902 reaching nearly one billion bushels, grown on twenty- eight million acres, and valued at over $ 300,000,000. Illinois and Iowa, the former with one hundred and fifty- three million bushels, the latter with one hundred and twenty- five million bushels, produced in each case by about four million acres, are far in the lead in both product and acreage. It also is notably a northern crop, a fact attested by the Ontario yield of one hundred and t^ n million bushels. Barley is less important both actually and relatively, fche crop in 1902 being one hundred and thirty- five million bushels. The centres of distribution are more widely scattered, California with nearly thirty million bushels, Minnesota with twenty- six million, Wisconsin and North Dakota with sixteen million each, and Iowa with thirteen million bushels, being responsible for the great bulk of barley production. Rye is of still less consequence, particularly in comparison with Europe, where in many parts it is the principal cereal. The 1902 output was thirty- three million bushels, most of which came from Wisconsin, Nebraska, Michigan, and Minnesota. Buckwheat, while not strictly a cereal, may be mentioned here, * with an output of fourteen million five hundred YOL. 1I.- 4 |