PASTURE LAND ON FARMS. 
11 
In the eleven Rocky Mountain and Pacific States over 85 per cent 
of the land area was not in farms in 1909, and a great deal of this 
land is destined to remain permanently non-agricultural. Where the 
land is too rough for agriculture and the rainfall sufficient for the 
growth of trees, the land is included in the national forests, which 
are shown as solid black areas in figure 7. Desert areas and several 
Indian reservations, which had not been opened for settlement in 
1909, are also shown in black. 
Note 1. — The schedules from which the material was tabulated 
had been moved to a storage room and some of the schedules were 
lost or mislaid. The following table shows the number of the missing 
records and the States and counties affected: 
Missing records. 
State and county. 
Number of 
farms. 
Missing records. 
Number 
Per cent 
of total. 
United States 
Alabama 
Dallas 
Lawrence 
California 
Mariposa 1 
Colorado 
Custer 1 
Summit 1 
Georgia 
Haralson 
Taliaferro 
Iowa 
Pottawattamie 
Minnesota 
Morrison 
Stearns 
Mississippi 
Bolivar 
Missouri 
Nodaway 
Nevada 
Lander 1 
Ohio 
Putnam 
Tennessee 
Houston 1 
Meigs x 
Texas 
Ector 1 
Virginia 
Alexandria 1 . . . 
Wisconsin 
Oconto 
Vernon 
Walworth 
3,361,502 
11,877 
0.19 
262, 901 
8,182 
4,003 
88, 197 
330 
46, 170 
249 
M 96 
291,027 
1,925 
1,458 
217,044 
3,935 
156, 137 
2,622 
4,255 
274,382 
10,612 
277,244 
3,861 
2,689 
55 
272,045 
3,469 
246, 012 
773 
866 
417, 770 
84 
184,018 
96 
177, 127 
2,868 
4,003 
2,803 
1,894 
1,231 
663 
329 
329 
338 
247 
91 
1,303 
972 
331 
824 
824 
897 
404 
493 
481 
481 
753 
753 
55 
55 
868 
868 
1,635 
772 
863 
83 
83 
93 
93 
2,324 
733 
784 
807 
.7 
15.0 
16.6 
.4 
99.7 
.7 
99.2 
94.8 
.4 
50.5 
22.7 
.4 
20.9 
.6 
15.4 
11.6 
.2 
4.5 
.3 
19.5 
2.0 
100.0 
.3 
25.0 
.6 
99.8 
99.6 
.02 
98.8 
.05 
96.8 
1.3 
26.9 
19.6 
28.8 
1 Pasture figures for missing records in these counties were estimated on the basis of average acreage in 
adjoining counties with similar agricultural conditions. 
It will be seen from the foregoing table that of the total number 
of 6,362,000 farms, schedules for about 12,000, or one-fifth of 1 per 
cent, were missing. The missing records therefore do not affect per- 
ceptibly the figures for the United States or even for any State, the 
largest proportion of missing records, 2 per cent, affecting the figures 
