Geographical Concentration

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Excerpt from Geographical Concentration: An Historic Feature of American In the case of wheat the area of principal production has undergone great changes during the last half-century. While its center moved steadily westward for forty years, as was the case also with that of the production of corn, oats, and barley, the result of that remarkable redistribution of the productive area which occurred during the closing years of the decade ending with 1889 was that the two states of prin cipal production were as Widely separated geographically as they are in their physical conditions, Minnesota leading with per cent of the total and California standing second with 8. 73 per cent, while the addition of the crops of Illinois and Indiana raised the proportion to 35. 85 per cent. Although this is a smaller percentage of the total crop of the country than was contributed hy'the four leading wheat-producing states at any previous agricultural census, it is a significant fact that more than one-third of the total production of the principal bread-plant had to be credited to so limited an area. But whatever the changes in the location of the wheat-pro ducing area there has always been a more or less marked geographical concentration. In 1839 per cent of the total wheat crop was produced in four states, containing only per cent of the entire land surface of the country. In 1889 those same states produced only per cent of the total, while four others, containing 1 per cent of the entire land surface, produced per cent of the total crop. 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.