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Fig. 38. — This map of hay and forage includes not only the hay crops bnt also corn 

 and the sorghums cut for silage or fodder and root crops us(m1 for forage — 13 items in 

 all in the census schedule, of which 8 are shown in the following maps, and 3 have 

 already been shown (flgs. 25, 26, and 36), The hay and forage acreage, it will be note<!. 

 Is largely concentrated in the Hay and Pasture Region and around the margin of the 

 Corn Belt, the greatest State acreage being found in New York and the greatest ton- 

 nage production in Wisconsin. Relative to the acreage in crops, however, hay and 

 forage is most important in the Rocky Mountain Region, where it occupies 55 per cent 

 Of the crop land. 



