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BULLETIN 481, U. S. DEPABTMENT OF AGBICULTUBE. 



Table 5. — Farm land unimproved and unucooded in 1910. and proportion of 

 increase or decrease since 1880. 



[Minus signs in front of per cent figures indicate a decrease.] 



Division I. 



State or State groups. 



Unimproved and un- 

 vrooded land, 1910. 



Acres. 



i Per cent 

 I of total 

 farmland. 



Increase 



or 

 decrease 



since 

 1880 per 



cent). 



Division II. 



Unimproved and un- 

 wooded land, 1910. 



or 

 decrease 



Percent Lift? 



of total ^JV** 

 farmland. cent) - 



Acres. 



Eastern United States 5,757,-569 6.7 - 3.9 9,161,884 



New England i 1. 593 51. 2 — 88.3 | 20. 337 



Middle Atlantic } 164,S19 4.6 S3. 4 1,S68'.968 



North Central ! 2.731.269 4.7 1.6 3.172.487 



Lake 2.453.616 12.6 - 16.2 3; 648. 043 



South Atlantic 7.242 12.2 70. S 130,740 



South Central 399,030 S.3 48.2 321.309 



11,593 



68,512 | 



96,307 



232.197 

 107; 664 

 1, 511 



New England: - 



Vermont 



Massachusetts 



Rhode Island 



Middle Atlantic: 



New York 



New Jersey 



Pennsylvania 



North Central: 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Illinois 



Iowa 1,587,121 



Missouri 105, 776 



Lake: 



Michigan 344. 117 



Wisconsin 443! 236 



Minnesota 1,666,263 i 



South Atlantic: 2 



Delaware 



Maryland 



Virginia 



West Virginia 7, 242 , 



South Central: 



Kentucky 243,537 I 



Tennessee 



Arkansas } 



Alabama j 



Mississippi ■ 



Louisiana 155, 493 



51.2 



88.3 



4.7 



5.0 

 3.9 

 3.6 

 6.0 

 2.2 



201.4 



137.6 



44.4 

 60.7 



- 14.8 

 ■ 51.7 



4.866 

 9,974 

 5,497 



1, 244. 867 

 96; 836 

 527,265 



1,202.2.52 

 599,256 

 5.57.635 

 392. 288 

 421,' 056 



8.9 



113.1 



2, 003, 239 



7.4 



359.4 



796.925 



1.5 



- 37.6 



847,879 



29.5 



70.8 



139.4 



7.2 



20.729 



37!226 



7:500 



65,285 



126. 8-33 



L063 



3', 345 



110. 406 



37,484 



42', 177 



8.1 



18.0 

 10.2 



5.1 

 15.5 



4.3 



116.0 

 44.5 

 241. 5 

 103.7 

 113. 5 

 94.2 



1 Nantucket Island. 



2 The States in this group in which woodlot Divisions I and II are not represented are omitted. 



