2 BULLETIN 626, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The tables in this bulletin show the returns for each of the three 
types of pasture for the United States as a whole, for geographic 
divisions, for States, for counties, and for the Territory of Hawaii. 
No data on pasture were collected for Alaska or Porto Rico. 
ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIAL. 
Tables I and II present, respectively, the acreage of farm pasture 
land by geographic divisions and States, and by counties. For com- 
parative purposes certain other items are included in these tables. 
The total land in farms is taken from the census reports. The land 
in crops also is taken from the census reports but includes estimates 
for the acreage of fruit crops, which are not reported in the census. 
These estimates were obtained by dividing the number of trees given 
in the census by the average number of trees per acre as estimated 
by the Bureau of Plant Industry. The figures for the item "All 
other farm land" are obtained by subtracting those for the crop 
and pasture land from those for the total farm land. This item 
includes woods not pastured, yards and barnyards, roads, fallow and 
waste land. (See note 2, page 12.) 
Table I also shows the percentage distribution of farm land into its 
various classes, and Table II, the percentages for crop land and 
pasture land by counties. A column showing the number of acres in 
pasture per 100 acres in crops also is included in Tables I and II. 
FARM PASTURE LAND IN THE UNITED STATES AS A WHOLE. 
Of the total farm land, which comprised about 879,000,000 acres 
in 1909, somewhat more than one- third was in crops, about one- third 
was in pasture, and somewhat less than one- third comprised all other 
kinds of farm land. The fact that there was nine-tenths as much 
pasture land as crop land is enormously significant in connection with 
the possibilities of expanding crop production. It must be noted, 
however, that a large part of the pasture land is unimproved, about 
99,000,000 acres being in " woodland pasture" and 108,000,000 acres 
" other unimproved pasture"; but even the improved pasture alone 
represented over 84,000,000 acres, or nearly one-tenth of the total 
land in farms. This improved pasture doubtless consists largely of 
land that is pastured in rotation with crop production in interme- 
diate years. It may be used for crops three years out of four, two 
years out of three, or one year out of two, but most of it undoubt- 
edly is arable land; in fact the definition of this type of pasture is 
"improved land in pasture but which can be plowed or mowed." 
Of the unused farm land, that is, land not in crops or pasture, which 
comprised about 269,000,000 acres, or 30.6 per cent of the total land 
