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Food Supply

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1886
Copyright
Public Domain
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TLe Maich report of the departmeut oí agriculture, on the cousumptíon and üintribution oL the grain erop-, uiak" tntrprpponioj of cnrn rtnri- u ïi.mvi... of farmers torty ier Cént. ol the last erop; one year ago the utoportion oí the erop on hand was S7.? r ctnt. l'he proportion 1 the lowest iu the wet, where heavy winter feeding is reqnired, uviragiug thirtv-eJght per cent., iu twclvc slatei. It Is ïorty-üve pc-r cent. in the south. The propon Ion mcieliautable is 82.l per e. ut., which is slightly above the averai'e uï :i serlea of years. 'ihe stock of wheat in the handb of farmeri is 30.1 per eent. of the erop. lt was 83.1 one year ago, and 38.4 two years ago. lt amouuta to 107,0ÜÜ,00U bushels, gaiust KVJ.OOO.OUOlast Maren and 119,00J,00U two years a"o. It is only 9,000,000 bushels more than in Mareh, lööa, tile shortest invisible supply in recent years. The visible and invisible supplv Marcli 1, was therefore l.W.OüO.CKX busheis, "agamst '1:2,000,000 last March. The proportion of the erop estimated for consumption witliin the country where grown is 41. S per cent.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat