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Fig. 123. — About one-half of the farms in New England and in California have water 

 piped into the house, about one-fourth of the farms in New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, 

 and Washington ; about one-eighth of tlie farms in the Corn Belt ; and 1 farm in 50 to 

 100 in the Cotton Belt. These differences are due, in part, to differences in per capita 

 rural wealth in the several sections of the United States, and in the percentage of 

 tenancy, and in part to differences in the consideration shown for the health and comfort 

 of the housewife. 



P^iG. 124. — Telephones are most common on the farms of the Corn Belt and of Kansas, 

 in which region from 60 to 90 per cent, varying with the State, possess this con- 

 venience. In the Hay and Pasture, the Spring Wheat, and the Pacific Coast Regions 

 about half the farms have telephones ; in Texas and Oklahoma about one-third of the 

 farms; in the Corn and Winter Wheat Region (except Kansas), in the Great Plains and 

 the Rocky Mountain Regions about a quarter, of the farms ; but in the Cotton Belt, 

 east of Texas and Oklahoma, only from 5 to 15 per cent. The proportion of the 

 farms possessing a telephone is indicative of the general diffusion of rural progress and 

 prosperity. 



