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A Graphio Smrmiary of American AgrlcvXtv/fei 



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SMALL GRAINS CUT FOR HAY 



IWHEAT, BARLEY. OATS. AND RYD 



ACREAGE. 1919 



GRAIN HAY ACREAGE, 1919 



Pig. 45. — The small grains — barley, oats, wheat, and occasionall.v rye — are cut green 

 for hay, mostly in the I'aciflc Coast State.s where a hay crop is needed which will grow 

 quickly during the cool, moist winters, and which need not survive the long summer 

 drought. In ralifornia barley mostly is used, but in Washington and Oregon wheat 

 and oats are more commonly cut for hay. The large acreage shown in North Dakota 

 and eastern Montana is mostly wheat, and Is doubtless larger than usual owing to the 

 dry season which caused the crop in much of this area to be scarcely worth threshing. 



ANNUAL LEGUMES CUT FOR HAY 



(COWPEAS. SOY BEANS. PEANUTS. AND VETCHES! 



ACREAGE, 1919 



Fig. 46. — " Annual legumes cut for hay " was a new item in the 1920 censu.^ sched- 

 uie, which revealed that nearly 2,000,000 acres of cowpeas, soy beans, and peanuts are 

 cut for hay. mostly in the southeastern quarter of the United States. The d(Mi.se center 

 In southeastern Alabama and the more widely distributed acreage in Tcnn(>ssee consist 

 principally of cowpeas. The thinly scattered dots in the North and West are mostly 

 soy beans, except in the North Pacific Region, where vetches are frequently grown for 

 hay. Soy beans can be grown in a much cooler climate than cowpeas or peanuts, and 

 are quite dxou.ght resistant. 



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