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Fig. 80. — Cattle are more evenly distributed over the United btates than any other 

 kind of live stock. The densest area is in Iowa, northern Missouri, eastern JNebrasKa. 

 southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and northwestern Illinois. On January i, •IJ'^". 

 there were about 14 million cattle in the Corn Belt, or 60 to the square mile, i- 

 million in the Hav and Pasture Region, whi-h is 36 to the square mile : 10 million la 

 the Corn and Winter Wheat Region, which !.■< 32 to the square^mile; 9 million In the 

 Cotton Belt, or 21 to the square mile; and 9i million in the Great Plains H'^S'on, or 

 alx)ut 20 to the square mile. The seven other regions had about 14 million cattle an 

 average of 11 to the square mile. In Iowa there were 82 cattle to the square miit.. 

 (See Figs. 11, 27, and 38.) 



