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nificant amount of root forage. The total acreage in 1909 
is given as 72,280,776, which produced 97,453,735 tons of 
forage valued at $824,004,877. The value of hay and 
forage as compared with other crops is shown in Table 
Mo Par..5). 
The statistics partially classify the hay and forage as 
follows: 
TABLE XIV 
ACREAGE, PRODUCTION, AND VALUE OF Hay AND ForRAGE FoR 1909 
BY CLASSES 
hase ue cee | ee 
| 
Timothy alone ~ 14,686,393 17,985,420 $188,082,895 
Timothy and Clover 
feet oS tL eae 748 555 257,280,330 
Clover alone . 2,443,263 3,158,324 29,334,356 
Alfalfa x4 4,707,146 11,859,881 | 93,103,998 
Millet or Hungarian / 
grass. . | 1,117,769 1,546,533 | 11,145,226 
Other tame or culti- | : | 
vated grasses .. .| 4,218,957 4,166,772 44,408,775 
Wild, salt or prairie 
grasses Bid heleg 17,186,522 18,383,574 91,026,169 
Grains cut ae 4,324,878 5,367,292 61,686,131 
Coarse forage 4,034,432 | 9,982,305 46,753,262 
The production of hay and forage of the ten leading 
states is shown in Table XV. The production of all the 
states is graphically shown in Fig. 1. 
TABLE XV 
Propuction (Tons) of Hay anp ForRAGE OF THE TEN LEADING 
States IN 1909 
B, 
tows . . . . . . 7,823,181 6. Wisconsin . 5,002,644 
2. New Vark . £,055,429 7. Ohio . 4,521,409 
3. Minnesota . 6,036,747 ‘8. Illinois , . 4,354,466 
4. Kansas : . 5,936,997 9. California. . . 4,827,130 
5. Nebraska . . 5,776,475 10. Missouri . 4,091,342 
