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Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 1921. 



Fig. 81. — Beef cattle constitute slightly over half the total number of cattle in the , 

 United States, but slightly less than half the value. Over 8 million beef cattle (includ- 

 ing calvfs) are in the Corn Belt, and as many more in the Great Plains Region, the.se 

 two regions having nearly half the beef cattle in the country. A large number of beef 

 cattle will also be noted in the Subtropical Coast and southern portion of the. Cotton 

 Belt, in the Appalachian valleys, in eastern Kansas, in the mountain parks and viilleys 

 of Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, on the plateaus of southwestern New Mexico and south- 

 eastern Arizona, and in California. Over 40 per cent of the beef cattle are in the west- 

 ern half of the United States. (See Figs. 12, 27, and 42.) The corner table gives figures 

 of beef cattle and of calves on farms only ; there were 890^963 in cities and villages. 



