PASTURE LAND OIST FARMS. 3 



in farms, about one-third, 10.4 per cent, was in woodlots, and two- 

 thirds, 20.2 per cent, comprised fallow land, waste land, land in 

 farmstead, roads, etc. 



GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FARM PASTURE. 



Figure 1 shows the geographic distribution of the total pasture 

 land on farms, each dot representing 20,000 acres. The map includes 

 only the portion of the United States east of longitude 99° W., since 



FIG. 1 



TOTAL PASTURE LAND ON FARMS 

 19 9 



DOT REPRESENTS 



climatic conditions, the extent to which the public land has actually 

 or nominally been transformed into farms, and other factors are so^ 

 diverse in the Western States that comparison of the statistics of 

 pasture land in the East with those for the West is impossible. It 

 will be seen that the greatest concentration of farm pasture is in 

 Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa. Pasture is also impor- 



