PASTURE LAND ON FARMS. 3 
in farms, about one- third, 10.4 per cent, was in woodlots, and two- 
thirds, 20.2 per cent, comprised fallow land, waste land, land in 
farmstead, roads, etc. 
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF FARM PASTURE. 
Figure 1 shows the geographic distribution of the total pasture 
land on farms, each dot representing 20,000 acres. The map includes 
only the portion of the United States east of longitude 99° W., since 
FIG. 1 
TOTAL PASTURE LAND ON FARMS 
19 9 
EACH DOT REPRESENTS 
20000 ACRES 
climatic conditions, the extent to which the public land has actually 
or nominally been transformed into farms, and other factors are so 
diverse in the Western States that comparison of the statistics of 
pasture land in the East with those for the West is impossible. It 
will be seen that the greatest concentration of farm pasture is in 
Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and Iowa. Pasture is also impor- 
