FIELD CROPS FOR THE COTTON-BELT 



The states comprising the cotton-belt are North Car- 

 olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis- 

 sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and 

 Tennessee. 



In 1909, all farm crops in the United States occupied 

 311,293,382 acres and had a total value of $5,073,997,594, 

 which was 92.5 per cent of the value of all crops, since 

 these totals did not include orchard fruits, nuts, flowers, 

 nursery and forest products on farms, amounting to a 

 total of $413,163,629, for which no acreage was reported. 



The cotton-belt, with 25.6 per cent of the land area of the 

 continental United States, 33.7 per cent of the farm area, 

 and 24.4 per cent of the improved land in farms, had 25.8 

 per cent of the crop acreage and produced 29.3 per cent 

 of the value of all crops in the United States with acreage 

 reported. 



4. Rank of the cotton-belt states. The total value 

 of all crops for each state in the cotton-belt for 1909, to- 

 gether with the percentage value of the United States' 

 crop produced in each state, is shown below: 



TABLE 1, SHOWING TOTAL VALUE OF ALL CROPS WITH ACREAGE 



REPORTS 

 CROP OF 1909. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 



PER CENT OF VALUE OF U. S. CROPS PRODUCED IN EACH STATE 



100 



5.7 | 4.2 | 2.8 j 2.7 2.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.1 f 1.5 | 0.5 



Texas ranks first, having produced two-thirty-fifths of 

 the value of the entire United States' crop. Florida ranks 

 last, having produced one-two-hundredths of the value 

 of the country's crop. 



