A Graphic Siummary of Ainerwan Agriculture. 



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Fig. 11. — This map shows the location of the acreage of improved pasture, accordin.g 

 to the returns of the 1910 census, which were tabulated in 1917 by the Department of 

 Agriculture and published in Bulletin No. 626. The returns of the 1920 census have 

 not yet been compiled. It appears probable that war-time prices encoui'aged the plow- 

 ing and planting to crops of about 15 million acres of improved pasture between 1910 

 and 1920. The concentration of pasture acreage shown in certain Texas counties is 

 owing largely to the census accrediting to the county in which the ranch headquarters 

 18 located the acreage that may extend into adjacent counties. The large acreage of 

 improved pasture in the Ohio River valley and in the Corn Belt "west of the Mississippi 

 is noteworthy. 



Fig. 12. — This map shows the location of forest and woodland in farms that was 

 pastured in 1909, amounting to 98 million acres, and that of " other unimproved land " 

 used for pasture, which amounted to about 109 million acres. In the States from Minne- 

 sota to Texas and eastward, especially in the South, forest and woodland pasture is 

 much the larger item ; but in the Great Plains Region and westward " other unim- 

 proved " pasture, which consists almost wholly of native grasses and herbs, is the more 

 important. In addition to the unimproved pasture in farms in the West there is a vast 

 acreage of similar land not in farms, the aggregate of unimproved pasture and range in 

 the West being about 800 million acres. 



