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from the viewpoint of the farmer. It is well known, however, 

 that any of these sandy loam lands, when well and judiciously 

 fertilized, will produce good crops. Under present economic 

 conditions, however, no large body of these lands can be utilized 

 in that way. When the population of the United States is 

 double what it is today, all of the land will probably be developed 

 into small productive farms. In the meantime, what are we going 

 to do about it? 



The crying need, fundamentally, is to find in the near future 

 some profitable use for these lands, and one of the lines along 

 which it seems that use can be made, under present economic 

 conditions, is the growing of live stock, particularly cattle and 

 sheep, which utilize large areas of land. 



Now, at the present time there is already a live stock in- 

 dustry on these cut-over pine lands. It is the live stock industry 

 of growing razorback hogs and piney woods cattle, an industry 

 that long ago reached approximately the limits of its practical de- 

 velopment. The problem is, can we replace this type of industry 

 by a more attractive and more profitable one? I think you will 

 agree with me that if we are to have a profitable live stock in- 

 dustry on these lands, the keynote to the entire subject will be, More Forage 

 can we grow the forage on these lands ; and it is about the forage Necessary to 

 question I am to speak this afternoon. Better Cattle 



I want you to look for a moment at the few maps I have. 

 This first map indicates the production of hay and forage in the 

 United States in 1909, according to the last census. These dots, 

 representing 10,000 acres each, are very accurately placed, just as 

 accurately as it is possible from statistics. Notice where the 

 hay and forage is grown. You will see that it is largely in the 

 northeastern quarter of the United States. Of course, in the West 

 there is a great deal of forage not shown on this map. I refer to 

 the native pasture and range land. In the same way, the native 

 forage of the South is not indicated on this map. The map in- 

 dicates forage crops only on cultivated land. 



The statistics of corn are not included in the forage, but 

 separately, although practically all the corn is fed to animals. All 

 the corn is in the eastern half of the United States ; but consid- 

 erably more than half is in the northern part of the eastern por- 

 tion of the United States. 



Now, you would naturally expect the distribution of live 

 stock to be correlated to that forage. Notice on this second map 



