10 BULLETIN" 626, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Lands not in farms: 1910. 
Division or State. 
Acreage. 
Per cent of 
total land 
area. 
United States 1, 024, 491, 275 
Geographic Divisions: 
New England 
Middle Atlantic 
East North Central , 
West North Central 
South Atlantic 
East South Central . 
West South Central 
Mountain 
Pacific 
New England: 
Maine 
New Hampshire . . . 
Vermont 
Massachusetts 
Rhode Island 
Connecticut 
Middle Atlantic: 
New York 
New Jersey 
Pennsylvania 
East North Central: 
Ohio 
Indiana 
Illinois 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
West North Central: 
Minnesota 
Iowa 
Missouri 
North Dakota 
South Dakota 
Nebraska 
53.8 
19, 949, 709 
50.3 
20, 808, 944 
32.5 
39,231,812 
25.0 
94,266,439 
28.8 
68,423,185 
39.7 
33,365,131 
29.0 
105, 887, 464 
38.5 
490, 306, 5S0 
89.2 
152,252,011 
74.8 
12,835,941 
67.1 
2,530,382 
43.8 
1, 175, 783 
20.1 
2,269,019 
44.1 
239,572 
35.1 
899, 012 
29.1 
8,468,193 
27.8 
2,235,103 
46.5 
10, 105, 648 
35.2 
1,967,892 
7.5 
1,768,977 
7. 7 
3,344,583 
9.3 
17,846,586 
48.5 
14,303,774 
40.4 
24,073,297 
46.5 
1,644,352 
4.6 
9, 394, 032 
21.4 
16, 490, 470 
36.7 
23,178,628 
47.1 
10, 535, 099 
21.4 
8, 950, 561 
17.1 
Division or State. 
Acreage. 
South Atlantic: 
Delaware 
Maryland 
District of Columbia . 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
North Carolina 
South Carolina 
Georgia 
Florida 
East South Central: 
Kentucky 
Tennessee 
Alabama 
Mississippi 
West South Central: 
Arkansas 
Louisiana 
Oklahoma 
Texas 
Mountain: 
Montana 
Idaho 
Wyoming 
Colorado 
New Mexico 
Arizona 
Utah 
Nevada 
Pacific: 
Washington 
Oregon 
California 
218,734 
1,305,100 
32,337 
6,272,044 
5,347,638 
8, 754, 471 
6,004,772 
10,630,587 
29,857,502 
3,526,713 
6,638,023 
12,086,248 
11,114,147 
16, 199, 925 
18.622,279 
15j 565, 607 
55, 499, 653 
80,023,037 
48, 062, 956 
53, 917, 150 
52,809,007 
67.131,899 
71,591,787 
49, 200, 061 
67,570,683 
31,062,805 
49,503,370 
71,685,836 
Per cent of 
total land 
area. 
17.4 
20.5 
84.2 
24.3 
34.8 
28.1 
30.8 
28.3 
85.0 
13.7 
24.9 
36.8 
37.5 
48.2 
64.1 
35.0 
33.0 
85.5 
90.1 
86.3 
79.6 
85.6 
98.3 
93.5 
96.1 
72.6 
80.9 
72.0 
The total acreage not in farms in the United States in 1909 was 
1,024,491,275, or 53.8 per cent of the total land area, The greater 
part of this unused land was in the western half of the United States. 
It will be noted that in some counties in Texas there was no land 
not in farms reported. In fact, in these counties there was more 
land reported in farms than the entire land area of the counties. 
The reason for this discrepancy is that the farm acreage is assigned 
in tabulation to the county where the farmstead is located, and in 
these Texas counties there were many farms with farmsteads in one 
county and large acreages in adjoining counties. 
The map in general indicates the regions where little expansion of 
farm acreage is possible. This is the case throughout the corn belt, 
in most of the spring-wheat region, and in central New York. The 
uncleared areas along the northern border and in Arkansas and 
Oklahoma appear clearly on the map, as well as the forested and 
marshy regions along the Gulf and South Atlantic coasts. The 
wheat-producing areas of eastern Washington, the Willamette Valley 
of western Oregon, and the valleys of California, are regions of the 
greatest expansion of agriculture in the West. In these localities 
there was comparatively little land not in farms in 1909. 
