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Large numbers of fine horses are raised and used on the 

 wheat ranches. 



The humid district is confined to the western part of 

 Washington and Oregon, with the larger portion of the 

 good tillable land in the latter state. Since this humid 

 section is confined to one small locality, and isolated from 

 the remainder of the country by a great mountain range, 

 it is not of so much interest to most persons of the West, 

 as are the alfalfa and dry-farm sections which are scat- 

 tered over a much larger area. This humid section, how- 

 ever, does comprise about 15 per cent of the tillable 

 land of the West. It is a region of immense variety from 

 the agricultural standpoint, and practically every crop 

 grown in the temperate zone is grown here in commer- 

 cial quantities. The chief crops are hay, grain, and pas- 

 ture, while the chief live-stock industry is dairying and 

 farm sheep. Fine pure-bred stock are especially nu- 

 merous and this region must be considered as the breeding 

 ground of the West. 



DISTRIBUTION OF LIVE-STOCK 



The distribution of live-stock is perhaps best shown by 

 the maps (Fig. 5). In a general way cattle and sheep 

 are well distributed throughout the western country, and 

 all of the grazing area supports more or less of these 

 animals. There are very few sections which are exclu- 

 sively cattle or exclusively sheep, although in a general 

 way the regions having the greenest and best grass in the 

 summer time attempt to raise the larger number of sheep, 

 while the regions that are comparatively dry and have 

 little green grass are more largely devoted to cattle. 

 There are but few beef cattle raised entirely on cultivated 



