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Fig. 28.— Improved land is a better criterion of the real size of a farm than its total area. The Cotton 
Belt stands out clearly, with the farms in most of the area averaging loss than 40 acres. The same 
small acreage per farm is fotmd in eastern New England, where trucking and dairying dominate, and 
in the upper Lakes area, where farms are only partially reclaimed from the forest. At the other 
extreme, much of the Great Plains and most of the Spring Wheat Area average over 200 acres per 
farm. The sharp gradation zone extending from northwestern Minnesota to Indiana, thence to 
central Texas, marks the eastern margin of the prairies. Prairie farms were more easily and quickly 
made than forest farms, and have remained larger. (U. S. Dept. Agr. Yearbook, 1921.) 
