WILL MORE FORAGE PAY? 



remaining third, with wheat, sorghum grains, and rye making up the 

 balance in the order named. 



Table 1. — Lands contributing directly to livestock feeds and total 

 land ar< a. United state** 1944 l 



Item 



Acreage 



Percent- 

 age of 

 United 



States 

 land area 



Cropland: 



Feed grains _ 



Million 

 acres 



161 

 60 



48 



Percent 



All hav 





Used only for pasture (rotation pasture) 







Total 



269 



14. 1 







Grazing land: 



On farms and ranches: 

 Woodland 



95 



420 



61 





Nonplowable 





Plowable (in addition to rotation pasture) 







Total 



576 



30. 2 



Not on farms and ranches: 

 Nonforested 



178 

 250 





Forested 









Total _____ _ 



428 



22. 5 







Grand total _ 



1,273 



66. 8 







Land area of the United States: 

 Not in farms 



763 



451 

 691 



40. 1 



In farms: 

 Cropland 



23. 7 



Other _ __ 



36. 2 







Total _____ 



1. 142 



59. 9 







Grand total 



1, 905 



100.0 



1 United States Census of Agriculture, 1945 (34) and Graphic Summary of 

 Land Utilization in the United States. (35) 



Commercial byproduct feeds include oilseed cakes and meals, mill- 

 feeds, animal proteins, and such miscellaneous items as corn byprod- 

 ucts, alfalfa meal, and brewers' and distillers' dried grains. About 

 half of the 7.3 percent of the total feed units contributed by com- 

 mercial byproducts comes from oilseed cakes and meals, about 30 

 percent from millfeeds. 10 percent from animal proteins, and 10 per- 

 cent from miscellaneous sources. 



Of the other concentrates, shown in table 2 to contribute less than 

 2 percent to the total supply of feed units, about 60 percent comes 

 from seeds such as peanuts, velvet beans, cowpeas, and cottonseed fed 



