UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
BULLETIN No. 626 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
Contribution from the Office of Farm Management 
W. J. SPILLMAN, Chief 
Washington, D. C. 
May 9, 1918 
PASTURE LAND ON FARMS IN THE 
UNITED STATES. 
By E. A. Goldenweiser, Statistician, and J. S. Ball, Assistant in Farm Accounting. 
CONTENTS. 
Source of data 1 
Arrangement of material 2 
Pasture land in the United States as a whole. 2 
Geographical distribution of farm pasture. ... 3 
Pasture land, by geographical divisions and 
States (Table) 14 
Pasture land by counties (Table) 16 
SOURCE OF DATA. 
The figures on pasture land on farms in the United States presented 
in this bulletin were obtained from a tabulation of the agricultural 
schedules collected by the Bureau of the Census in 1910. Owing to 
the fact that the census period is limited to 'three years, the Bureau 
of the Census was unable to tabulate this item. When, however, the 
necessity of increasing food production in the United States made it 
particularly important to ascertain the amount and location of agri- 
cultural land not at present utilized for raising crops the Bureau of 
the Census granted permission to the Office of Farm Management to 
undertake the tabulation of pasture land. Although the schedules 
were collected seven years ago, it was thought that no great changes 
in distribution of pasture land had occurred since 1910 and that in 
any case these data were of great value as the first enumeration ever 
tabulated of the amount and distribution of pasture land on farms in 
the United States. (See note on page 11.) 
The census inquiry on which this tabulation is based is as follows: 
Pasture Land: Acres in this farm used exclusively for pasture in 1909: 
Acres. 
Woodland pasture, covered with pasture grasses, but contain- 
ing more or less scattered timber 
Improved land in pasture, but which can be plowed or mowed. 
All other pasture land 
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