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Show 162 of the dry edible beans; 59 per cent of the peaches; 48.4 per cent of the 39.8 per cent of the oranges; 39 per cent of the apples; 37.6 per barley; cent of the green peas; wh.eat; 2.1.4 34. 7 per cent of the potatoes; 2.8.6 per cent of the per cent of the rice; 19. 5 per cent of the hay; 16.4 per cent of the cotton and 16. 3 per cent of the cottonseed; and 12.. 6 per cent of the grapefruit.84 sheep same States also and lambs; 2.S per cent of the calves, 1l .. 3 A These per cent of the milk accounted for 43.4 percent of turkeys; 17.9 produced the per cent of the cattle and and marketed in the United States. composite average of these different percentages approximates 46.8 per cent. In recent years there has been and equipment fencing, by American farmers. steel fence posts, and consumed. Shipmnts a an other steel agricultural 1,537,70S net tons. 86 the above composite average of 46. S'o. 719.647 Wholly use of machinery An indeterminate amount of wire variety of of steel for increasing use in products 1950' are also totaled for purposes of estimate. and based upon n.et tons of steel were consumed in the Western States in 1950. Cash totaled receipts from farming $5,353,000, lS.4 per cent of 84The OPe in the eleven Western States in 1950 the $2.9.056 million received by Stanford Research Institute, Western Resources Handbook, cit., Section ll-B-L. 85Ibid •. - 86See Table B, Appendix. 85 |
