62 Yearbook of the Departimnt of Agrieulimre^ 1921, 



Fig. 51. — The census of 1920 was the first to separate vegetables grown for home use 

 from those grown for sale. The areas of densest production of vegetables for home use 

 are southeastern Pennsvlvania. the upper Ohio Valley, the mountainous districts of eastern 

 Kentucky and Tennessee and of northern Alabama, the upper Piedmont of the Carolinas 

 and Georgia, and much of Mississippi, also the Lake Michigan shore counties of niscon- 

 »;in, southeastern Michigan, and central New York — areas of small farms owne<t by frugal 

 I>eople (see Figs. 98 and 99). The average size of the fann garden, however, is ap- 

 parently, gi-eatest in Virginia and Massachusetts, about one-half acre, and smallest in the 

 prairie and plains States, alx»ut one-fifth acre. 



