PASTURE LAND 01ST FARMS. 5 



and northern Missouri. Improved pasture is unimportant in the 

 Cotton States. The dense area shown in southern Texas is probably 

 due to defective classification. Woodland pasture (shown in figure 4) 

 is, on the other hand, markedly concentrated in Texas, and is dis- 

 tributed f airly evenly throughout the eastern half of the country. 

 This Texas woodland pasture is, in the main, brush-land, largely 



FIG. 3 



IMPROVED PASTURE LAND ON FARMS 

 1909 



mesquite. In the Southern States there are vast tracts of forest 

 land; nevertheless woodland pasture is not as dense as in the North- 

 ern States, and in part of the South it is practically nonexistent. 

 This is due partly to the lack of species of grass well adapted to 

 pasture, and partly to economic conditions which make unprofitable 

 any utilization of poor pastures. There is a noticeable belt of wood- 

 land pasture in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, owing in part, to 

 the rolling or hilly topography. 



