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Allotment of Land lo I'nited StatoH Crops — Tliis country 

 has about a billion acres in farms, half of which is improved 

 land and half unimproved. 



Of the 500,000.000 acres of improved land, corn covers about 

 100,000.000 acres and the small cereals a similar amount, while 

 cottoncoversa third as much as corn, and grass lands for hay 

 and summer forage cover two-thirds as much as corn. 



There are probably 200,000,000 acres in grass, and a total of 

 300,000.000 acres in all other field, orchard, and garden crops. 



Thus of the 500,000,000 improved acres we have 200,000.000 

 acres in pasture grasses, 100,000,000 in corn, 100,000,000 in small 

 cereals, 100,000,000 acres in hay, summer forage, potatoes, beans, 

 and other minor field crops and the more intensified crops of the 

 orchard and garden. 



EniLne 'with disk harro-vrs 



Cereals from Canada to the Gulf — Cereal growing extends 

 from the Canadian partition fence down nearly to the Gulf of 

 Mexico, and from Maine to California, and our Dominion brethren 

 grow wheat some distance northward in their broad estate, 

 especially in the extensive plains west and northwest of Winnipeg. 



In the Euro-Asiatic continent there is a similar band of 

 small cereal areas which extends from far north in the Scandi- 

 navian peninsula and in northern Russia down past the Holy 

 Land and even into elevated regions in India. 



There is a temperate zonal strip in the southern hemisphere 

 also, where the cereal band crosses southern South America, 

 southern Africa, and southern Australasia and includes many 

 Islands. 



Where it Pays Best to Raise Cereals— On what part of 



Uncle Sam's estate does the cultivation of the small cereals 



