NOTES. 



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Table continued. 



Note. — The authority for the area of improved farm land is furnished by the 

 of 1900. The areas of forest, brush, and waste lands were ascertained by 

 subtracting the area of cultivated land from the total land areas of the several 

 ^>tates, and are placed as per cent of the total areas in column 4. The part of 

 these supposed to be forest is estimated on information obtained by various 

 agencies. For the western section of the country the further subdivisicn into 

 forest, brush, and open country is based partly on statistics gathered by Colonel 

 Ensign and published in Bulletin 2 of the Division of Forestry, and partly on the 

 map published in the report of the Forestry Division for 1892. 



These figures would indicate that, in round numbers, less 

 than 415 million acres are turned into farm lands, about two- 

 thirds of which was hewn out of the forest ; that the pro- 

 ductive area of forest growth, by no means all virgin, falls 



