12 BULLETIN 626, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



for Nevada. In counties whose missing records constituted a com- 

 paratively small percentage of the total number of farms, the pasture 

 acreage on the farms whose records were missing was estimated on 

 the basis of averages for farms whose records were on hand. But in 

 counties whose missing records constituted a very large proportion 

 of the total number of farms the estimates were made on the basis 

 of average acreage per farm for adjoining counties having similar 

 agricultural conditions. There are, therefore, about seven counties 

 for which the figures are estimates and possibly inaccurate, but for 

 the remaining counties and for States and the United States the 

 figures are as reliable as could be obtained by the method of enu- 

 meration. 



Note 2. — By subtracting the figures for woodland pasture from 

 those for the total woodland on farms, as reported by the census, a 

 measure of the amount of land in woodlots not pastured could have 

 been obtained if it were not for the difference in definitions. The 

 census definition of woodland pasture is given on page 1, and 

 woodland on farms was defined as follows: 



Woodland in this farm. (Give here land covered with natural or planted forest 

 trees, whose principal value is in firewood, timber, or other forest products, which it 

 will now or later yields) 



Woodland pasture, therefore, according to the definition, includes 

 a large territory of open pasture with scattered trees, and naturally 

 this territory would not be reported as woodland. As a matter of 

 fact the acreage reported for woodland pasture was, in many coun- 

 ties, and even in many States, considerably in excess of the total 

 acreage for woodland. Nevertheless, it was considered worth while 

 to show in Table I the percentage of farm land not used for crops or 

 pasture which was in woodland and in all other kinds of land not 

 otherwise specified, with the understanding that these figures are 

 only rough approximations. 



In the case of a few counties the reported pasture land is greater 

 than the entire farm land, exclusive of land in crops, and in some 

 others pasture land alone, as reported, is greater than the total 

 land in farms. These discrepancies probably are due to the fact 

 that in some cases, especially in the range States, the farmer would 

 report as pasture a great deal of range land that he did not report as 

 part of his farm. It was deemed advisable to let the reports stand 

 as made, because there was no evidence on which to base any edi- 

 torial revision. It will be understood, therefore, that these para- 

 doxical returns are presented exactly as made by the enumerators. 

 The following table gives the list of counties from which an excessive 

 acreage in pasture was reported and the amount of the excess. This 

 excess makes it obvious that the figures given for these counties in 

 the column headed "All other farm land" were minus quantities. 



