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Fig. 32. — The Oat Belt of the United States consists of a crescent-shaped area extending 

 from New England to North Dakota, bounded on the north by the Great Liikes and on 

 the south by the Corn and Winter Wheat Region. An arm extends southwestwardly 

 from this belt across eastern Kansas and Oklahoma to central Texas. Oats prefer a cool, 

 moist climate, and this large acreage in the Corn Belt and southwesterly is owing more 

 to the need of feed for horses, and of a spring grain nurse crop for clover, than to par- 

 ticularly favorable climatic conditions. In the Southern States most of the oats are 

 fall sown, but in the North the oats ere sown in the spring. 



