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Pig. 107. — The Corn Belt contains one-fourth of the value of all live stock in the 

 United States, or somewhat more than the entire western half oi the country. There is 

 also dense distribution in southern Wisconsin and Michigan, in New York, and in south- 

 eastern Pennsylvania, in which districts dairying is very important. The greatest aver- 

 age value per farm, ovei- $3,0U0, is in the Arid Intermountain and the Great Plains regions; 

 the smallest, $583, in the Cotton Belt. However, the proportion which value of live stock 

 constitutes of the total farm investment is 12 per cent in the Cotton Belt, as compared 

 with 8 per cent in the Corn Belt. The greate.st proportion, 18 per cent, Is foiuid in the 

 Rocky Mountain and Arid Intermountain regions. 



In north-central Illinois the expenditure for feed is much less because the corn i.s largely 

 Bold to the near-by Chicago market, and few cattle or hogs are raised. (See Figs 1.8, 81. 

 89, and 107.) The heavier expenditure shown in the Puget Sound and Willamette Val- 

 leys is largely for feed for dairy cows, while in California the feed is bought principally 

 for dairy cows and poultry. 



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