Description: A world map from 1916 showing the principal wheat–producing regions of the world at the time, showing areas of production in hatchures, with the regions of heaviest production in black. Based on five–year averages; "WorldÕs annual production, 36,860,000,000 bushels. Leading wheat–growing countries, with percentages of the world crop: United States (21%), Russia (11%), India (9%), France (7%), Canada (6%), Italy (4 ½%). Average annual production in the United States, 820,000,000 bushels. (In 1915, over 1,000,000,000 bushels.) Leading wheat–growing states, with percentages of United States crop: Kansas (13%), North Dakota (11%), Minnesota (7%), Nebraska (6%), South Dakota (6%), Illinois (5%). Leading wheat–exporting countries: Argentina, United States, Roumania."
Place Names: A Complete Map of Globes and Multi-continent,
ISO Topic Categories: farming,
location,
oceans
Keywords: Wheat Production, statistical, kAgriculture, agriculture, farming,
location,
oceans, Unknown, 1916
Source: Albert Perry Brigham & Charles T. McFarlane, Essentials of Geography (New York, NY: American Book Company, 1916) 403
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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