6 BULLETIN- 626, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Unimproved pasture other than woodland pasture (fig. 5) is dis- 
tributed more densely through the Great Plains region largely be- 
cause much improved range land is included in the pasture figures. 
In the East unimproved pasture is distributed somewhat more 
densely through the Northern than through the Southern States 
and is most dense in Vermont and parts of northern New York. 
FIG. 4 
WOODLAND 
PASTURE 
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ON FARMS 
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The pasture reported as unimproved by the enumerators in the 
East is largely land that is too rough for cultivation, and in the 
West is largely grazing land where the rainfall is too low for the 
production of staple crops. 
Figure 6 shows the distribution of farm land that is in neither 
crops nor pasture. As explained above, this type of farm land com- 
prises woodland, waste, and fallow land, as well as yards, barnyards, 
