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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 
