Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the State Board of Agriculture of the State of Missouri for the Year 1886 The harvests are now, Nov. 10, completed, and the results well ascertained. The unfavorable fall growth of wheat in 1884 coupled with a winter of unusual severity, gave one of the most unfortunate wheat crops in the history of the State. The area sown had been di minished, by the force ot low prices, by 10 per cent. While the frost of winter further reduced this area, by ruined wheat necessarily plowed up, until the area harvested amounted to but acres, yielding but 65 and a fraction per cent. Of an average yield per acre, or bushels per acre, giving a total yield of but bushels. This yield is 566 bushels less than the average yield of the State. A new foreign competition has maintained a low level of price for this crop, and 80 cents will represent its full average sale value to farm ers. Hence, we have as low a price as is usually received. The farm ers of the State thus receive less for their crop of wheat than the usual average. This loss has been severely felt on the farm, and has by an inevitable law extended its influence to all industries. 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.