UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



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BULLETIN No. 626 



OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY *Aj| 



Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 

 W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 



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Washington, D. C. 



May 9, 1918 



PASTURE LAND ON FARMS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES. 



By E. A. Goldenweiser, Statistician, and J. S. Ball, Assistant in Farm Accounting. 



CONTENTS. 



Source of data 



Arrangement of material 



Pasture land in the United States as a whole 

 Geographical distribution of farm pasture... 



Page. 

 1 

 2 

 2 

 3 



Pasture land, by geographical divisions and 



States (Table) 14 



Pasture land by counties (Table) 16 



SOURCE OF DATA. 



The figures on pasture land on farms in the United States presented 

 in this bulletin were obtained from a tabulation of the agricultural 

 schedules collected by the Bureau of the Census in 1910. Owing to 

 the fact that the census period is limited to three years, the Bureau 

 of the Census was unable to tabulate this item. When, however, the 

 necessity of increasing food production in the United States made it 

 particularly important to ascertain the amount and location of agri- 

 cultural land not at present utilized for raising crops the Bureau of 

 the Census granted permission to the Office of Farm Management to 

 undertake the tabulation of pasture land. Although the schedules 

 were collected seven years ago, it was thought that no great changes 

 in distribution of pasture land had occurred since 1910 and that in 

 any case these data were of great value as the first enumeration ever 

 tabulated of the amount and distribution of pasture land on farms in 

 the United States. (See note on page 11.) 



The census inquiry on which this tabulation is based is as follows: 



Pasture Land: Acres in this farm used exclusively for pasture in 1909: 



Acres. 

 Woodland pasture, covered with pasture grasses, but contain- 

 ing more or less scattered timber 



Improved land in pasture, but which can be plowed or mowed. 



All other pasture land. * 



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