10 BULLETIN 626, XT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICtTLTURE. 



Lands not in farms: 1910. 



Division or State. 



United States 



Geographic Divisions: 



New England 



Middle Atlantic 



East North Central . . 



West North Central . . 



South Atlantic 



East South Central . . . 



West South Central . . 



Mountain 



Pacific 



New England: 



Maine 



New Hampshire 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Connecticut 



Middle Atlantic: 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



East North Central: 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Michigan 



Wisconsin 



West North Central: 



Minnesota 



Iowa 



Missouri 



North Dakota 



South Dakota 



Nebraska 



Kansas 



Acreage. 



1,024,491,275 



Per cent of 

 total land 



19, 949, 709 

 20, 80S, 944 

 39,231,812 

 94,206,439 

 68, 423, 185 

 33, 365, 131 

 105, 887, 464 

 490,306,580 

 152,252,011 



12,835,941 



2,530,382 



1, 175, 783 



2,269,019 



239,572 



899, 012 



8, 468, 193 

 2,235,103 

 10, 105, 648 



1, 967, 892 



1,768,977 



3,344,583 



17,846,586 



14,303,774 



24,073,297 

 1,644,352 

 9,394,032 

 16, 490, 470 

 23, 178, 628 

 10, 535, 099 

 8,950,561 



50-3 

 32.5 

 25.0 

 28.8 

 39.7 

 29.0 

 38.5 

 89.2 

 74.8 



67.1 

 43.8 

 20.1 

 44.1 

 35.1 

 29.1 



27.8 

 46.5 

 35.2 



7.5 



7.7 



9.3 



48.5 



40.4 



46.5 

 4.6 

 21.4 

 36.7 

 47.1 

 21.4 

 17.1 



Division or State. 



South Atlantic: 



Delaware 



Maryland 



District of Columbia 



Virginia 



West Virginia 



North Carolina 



South Carolina 



Georgia 



Florida 



East South Central: 



Kentucky 



Tennessee 



Alabama 



Mississippi 



West South Central: 



Arkansas 



Louisiana 



Oklahoma 



Texas 



Mountain: 



Montana 



Idaho 



Wyoming 



Colorado 



New Mexico 



Arizona 



Utah 



Nevada 



Pacific: 



Washington 



Oregon 



California 



Acreage. 



218,734 

 1,305,100 

 32,337 

 6,272,044 

 5,347,638 

 8,754,471 

 6,004,772 

 10,630,587 

 29,857,502 



3, 526, 713 

 6,638,023 

 12,086,248 

 11,114,147 



16,199,925 

 18,622,279 

 15,565,607 

 55,499,653 



80,023,037 

 48, 062, 956 

 53, 917, 150 

 52,809,007 

 67, 131, 899 

 71, 591, 787 

 49,200,061 

 67,570,683 



31, 062, 805 

 49,503,370 

 71,685,836 



Per cent of 



total land 



area. 



17.4 

 20.5 

 84.2 

 24.3 

 34.8 

 28.1 

 30.8 

 28.3 

 85.0 



13.7 

 24.9 

 36.8 

 37.5 



48.2 

 64.1 

 35.0 

 33.0 



85.5 

 90.1 

 86.3 

 79.6 

 85.6 

 98.3 

 93.5 

 96.1 



72.6 



80.9 

 72.0 



The total acreage not in farms in the United States in 1909 was 

 1,024,491,275, or 53.8 per cent of the total land area. The greater 

 part of this unused land was in the western half of the United States. 

 It will he noted that in some counties in Texas there was no land 

 not in farms reported. In fact, in these counties there was more 

 land reported in farms than the entire land area of the counties. 

 The reason for this discrepancy is that the farm acreage is assigned 

 in tabulation to the county where the farmstead is located, and in 

 these Texas counties there were many farms with farmsteads in one 

 county and large acreages in adjoining counties. 



The map in general indicates the regions where little expansion of 

 farm acreage is possible. This is the case throughout the corn belt, 

 in most of the spring-wheat region, and in central New York. The 

 uncleared areas along the northern border and in Arkansas and 

 Oklahoma appear clearly on the map, as well as the forested and 

 marshy regions along the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. The 

 wheat-producing areas of eastern Washington, the Willamette Valley 

 of western Oregon, and the valleys of California, are regions of the 

 greatest expansion of agriculture in the West. In these localities 

 there was comparatively little land not in farms in 1909. 



