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SETTLEMENT AND COLONIZATION IN GREAT LAKES STATES 9 
INCREASE, LAND IN CROPS 
1910-1920 
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Fic. 9.—In spite of the decrease in the area of improved land in southeastern Minnesota 
and the southern portions of Wisconsin and Michigan, there was a considerable in- 
crease of area of land in crops in all of these districts. This is accounted for largely 
by the tendency to plow up improved pastures and devote the land to crops which 
resulted from war-time demand. In the newly developing portions of the three States 
the areas of increase in land in crops correspond closely to the areas of increase in 
improved land 
DECREASE, LAND IN CROPS 
i910-1920 
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Fic, 10.—There was a decrease of crop area in only a few scattering counties of the 
three States 
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