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FIG. 2. The banner agricultural region of the United States. 



PROBLEMS. 



1. Find the area of the map of the above agricultural region. 



2. How does it compare in size with the area of the United States 

 and with the land surface of the globe? 



3. If the annual production of corn within this area is 2,000,000,000 

 bushels what is the average production per acre? 



4. Find the approximate average production of oats, wheat, clover, 

 timothy and alfalfa per acre, basing calculations on the government re- 

 ports for the last decade. 



NOTE, The school should be supplied with a copy of the annual 

 report of the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States each year. 



Questions. 



1. If the population within the area of the map given in Fig. 2 

 is about 30 millions, what is the population of the states of the Union 

 in the territory outside according to the 1910 census? 



