PASTURE LAND ON FARMS. 7 
roads, etc.; in short, all farm land that is not utilized directly for 
agricultural production. In New England, in the South Atlantic 
and East South Central States, as well as in Arkansas and Louisiana, 
a large proportion of this land is in forests and marshes. On the 
other hand, in parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, 
and Kansas, as well as in the Western States, an appreciable pro- 
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portion of the cultivated area remains idle every year because of 
the practice of summer fallowing. It therefore can not be con- 
sidered as waste land. 
The regions of sparsest distribution of land not in crops or pasture 
are at the two extremes of agricultural conditions. On the one 
hand, there is little unused farm land in places where there are 
few farms, as in northern Maine and the Adirondacks, and on the 
