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Fig. 97. — This map, .showing the distribution of farms, might also serve as a map 

 of farm population. The densest areas are southeastern Pennsylvania, the upper 

 Piedmont of South Carolina and Georgia, eastern, central, and western Tennessee, tlie 

 Ohio Valley, and the Yazoo Delta in Mississippi. Over half the farms in the United 

 States are in the Cotton Belt and the Corn and Winter Wheat Region. Many of the 

 tenant farms on the plantations in the Cotton Belt, however, are little more than 

 laborers' allotments. The Corn Belt, although it includes over one-third the value of 

 farm property in the United States, has only one-seventh of the farms. Nine-tenths of 

 the farms are in the eastern half of the United States. The relative density of farm 

 population in the South is even greater than that of farms. (See Figs. 104 and 118.) 



