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BULLETIN" 626, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
other hand, there is little unused farm land in the most fertile agri- 
cultural regions where nearly all the land in farms is utilized, as in 
Illinois and Iowa. 
Land not in farms.. — -In this connection it is interesting to consider 
the amount and distribution of land not in farms. These figures 
FIG. 6 
LAND IN FARMS 
OTHER THAN LAND IN CROPS AND IN PASTURE 
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mm 
mm 
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are derived by subtracting the land in farms as reported by the 
Bureau of the Census from the total land area of counties as reported 
by the same authority. The following table presents the results 
by geographic divisions and States, and figure 7 shows the distribution 
of land not in farms by comities: 
