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CIRCULAR 636, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Table 4. — Estimated acreage on ichich it is considered economical! ij feasible to 

 improve food and cover for wildlife, by classes of land, J935 — Continued 



" Data from unpublished reports by O. E. Baker, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



'■ Data from the National Resources Board's Recreational Uses of Land iu the United 

 States, prepared by the National Park Service, Part XI of the Supplementary Report of 

 the Land Planning Committee, p. 122. 



' Data from publications of the U. S. Department of the Interior. 



^ Data from U. S. War Department Statistical Report, July 1937. 



i" Data from U. S. Navy Department, Federal-owned Real Estate Under Control of the 

 Navy Depaj-tmenr. 



^' Less tlrhn 0.05 percent. 



'^ Obtained by subtracting grazed forest and woodland not in farms from the total forest 

 and woodland not in farms in the United States as given by the National Resources Board 

 Report. Part VIII of the Supplementary Report of the Land Planning Committee, p. 78. 

 Some of it is wildlife refuges. 



13 Obtained by subtracting grazed nonforest or woodland not in farms from the total 

 nonforest or woodland not in farms in the United States as given by various (iovernnient 

 reports. Some of it is wildlife refuges. 



EA^dence indicates that about 70 percent of the game reported 

 killed was taken on agricultural land and about 30 percent on non- 

 agricultural land. This does not take into account game taken by 

 farmers and farm boys hunting on their own or rented agricultui-al 

 lands nor does it consider that no Corn Belt, Wheat Belt, or Range 

 State is represented in the data on hand. It is believed, therefore, 

 that if a re])resentative sample of the total bag of game were avail- 

 able, it would indicate that more than SO percent of the game taken 

 durino- recent vears was killed on atrricultural land. However, in 



