PASTURE LAKD ON FARMS. 



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In the eleven Rocky Mountain and Pacific States over 85 per cent 

 of the land area was not in farms in 1909, and a great deal of this 

 land is destined to remain permanently non-agricultural. Where the 

 land is too rough for agriculture and the rainfall sufficient for the 

 growth of trees, the land is included in the national forests, which 

 are shown as solid black areas in figure 7. Desert areas and several 

 Indian reservations, which had not been opened for settlement in 

 1909, are also shown in black. 



Note 1. — The schedules from which the material was tabulated 

 had been moved to a storage room and some of the schedules were 

 lost or mislaid. The following table shows the number of the missing 

 records and the States and counties affected: 



Missing records. 



State and county. 



Number of 

 farms. 



Missing records. 



Number 



Per cent 

 of total. 



United States. 



Alabama 



Dallas 



Lawrence. 

 California 



Mariposa ' 

 Colorado 



Custer 1 ... 



Summit 1 . 

 Georgia. 



Haralson . 

 Taliaferro. 

 Iowa ...... 



Pottawattamie . 

 Minnesota 



Morrison 



Stearns 



Mississippi 



Bolivar 



Missouri 



Nodaway 



Nevada 



Lander 1 



Ohio 



Putnam 



Tennessee 



Houston 1 



Meigs 1 



Texas 



Ector 1 



Virginia 



Alexandria 1 



Wisconsin 



Oconto 



Vernon 



Walworth 



6,361,502 



11,877 



262, 901 



8,182 



4,003 



88, 197 



330 



46, 170 



249 



96 



291, 027 



1,925 



1,458 



217. 044 

 3,935 



156, 137 



2,622 



4,255 



274,382 



10,612 



277,244 



3,861 



2,689 



55 



272. 045 

 3,469 



246, 012 



773 



866 



417,770 



84 



184,018 



96 



177, 127 



2,868 



4,003 



2,803 



1,894 



1,231 



663 



329 



329 



338 



247 



91 



1,303 



972 



331 



824 



824 



897 



404 



493 



481 



481 



753 



753 



55 



55 



1,635 

 772 

 863 

 83 

 83 

 93 

 93 

 2,324 

 733 

 784 

 807 



0.19 



.7 

 15.0 

 16.6 



.4 

 99.7 



.7 

 99.2 

 94.8 



.4 

 50.5 

 22.7 



.4 

 20.9 



.6 

 15.4 

 11.6 



.2 

 4.5 



.3 



19.5 



2.0 



100.0 



.3 

 25.0 



.6 

 99.8 

 99.6 



.02 

 98.8 



.05 

 96.8 

 1.3 

 26.9 

 19.6 

 28.8 



1 Pasture figures for missing records in these counties were estimated on the basis of average acreage in 

 adjoining counties with similar agricultural conditions. 



It will be seen from the foregoing table that of the total number 

 of 6,362,000 farms, schedules for about 12,000, or one-fifth of 1 per 

 cent, were missing. The missing records therefore do not affect per- 

 ceptibly the figures for the United States or even for any State, the 

 largest proportion of missing records, 2 per cent, affecting the figures 



