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Show Leading Farm Crops Now Marketed Through Stock It has been conservatively estimated that three-fourths of the product of improved land and all the product of unimproved lands is used by live stock. Of the ten leading crops in the United States 85 per cent of the corn, 08 per cent of the hay, 35 per cent of the wheat, 80 per cent of the oats, GO per cent of the cottonseed (in the form of cottonseed cake or meal and cottonseed cot-tonseed hulls) and 90 per cent of the barley Is marketed through live stock. These ten crops represent 87 per cent of the value of all farm crops produced In 1927, and 55 per cent of the value of the ten leading crops represents the value of the portion of these crops that are marketed through live stock. |