C57 
THE AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE 
UNITED STATES. 
"he Department of Agriculture at "Washington has, for the first 
ime, issued an Album of Agricultural Statistics of the United 
States. It includes sixteen maps of the United States, variously 
•oloured and shaded, in order to afford a " clear and instant appre- 
ciation of some of the leading facts of American agriculture." 
English farmers cannot fail to be interested in the agricultural 
capabilities of their great Transatlantic competitor, and the skeleton 
map of the United States which is presented herewith (page 659) 
is intended to facilitate the comprehension of the following details, 
which have been gathered from a study of the charts in the Album. 
As some of the American figures are very large, the subjoined facts 
are given to afford a convenient standard of comparison : — 
ENGLAND AND WALES. 
Acres 
Total area of land and water 37,319,221 
Wheat Barley Oats 
Cereal crops, 1SS9 (acres) . . . 2,389,968 1,898,062 1,872,989 
Tenure of Cultivated Land, 1889 : — C e,". 
. 405,859= 82-4 
66.385= 135 
20,143= 4-1 
. 492,387 1000 
23,618,406- 84-8 
4,226,526= 152 
No. of occupiers who rent land 
men „ 
rent and own land 
Total 
Acreage rented and occupied 
„ owned and occupied 
Total 
27,844,932 1000 
It should be noted that barley is not a leading cereal crop in the 
United States. As a matter of fact, maize, wheat, and oats together 
make up as much as 97 per cent, of the total cereal production. 
Apportionment of Area. — The whole area of the United States is 
thus apportioned : — Lands not in farms, 7 LI per cent. ; productive 
lands, 15-3 ; woodlands, 10 3 ; unproductive farm-area, 3-3 per cent. 
Lands not in farms reach their highest State percentage (99 -8) in 
Arizona and Wyoming, their lowest (6*0) in Ohio. Productive lands 
are at a maximum (69-3 p. c.) in Ohio, and at a minimum (0-1) in 
Arizona and Wyoming. Woodlands range from 44/6 p, c. in North 
Carolina, to nil in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and 
Wyoming. The unproductive farm-area is as high as 18-5 p. c. in 
Kansas, and as low as 0-1 p. c. in Arizona, Montana, and Wyoming. 
West of the Missouri, lands not yet taken for farms almost exclu- 
sively prevail. They are very largely represented in the south, whilst 
in the eastern and middle States they occupy a much larger portion 
of the surface than in the Ohio Valley, 
