18 BULLETIN 341, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TABLE III. —Percentage of crop area devoted to each crop; 378 Pennsylvania: 
owners. 
[Illinois survey data and Chester County census figures included for comparison. ] 
Total crop area. 
CRO 378 Penn ||. Chester, | sss 
sylvania | 1910 census ass 
owners. figure. + 
Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. 
ADYOSEM CLOT er OS 2 See era iM Og ge Re Wen URN Coe ESD SOT 5 Be 22.3 2a 53.9 
POLAT ORS Ee nye es ae See It SC eke ear te eRe xo en ap Re | 6.0 4.8 (a) 
Wan Gate Aa = Seren gee Lig oe aly ek Aad 2 co ah ee eee fi ae tee eee 18. 2 18.0 18.7 
Oatchetie we Teo Amel eel es nant BN eee Rt NOS een SS ears He | 6.4 9.9 18.9 
4 DYO Uta) ae ae eee eee en ere a DE eg ye e be materi nips a ee, 44.0 39.0 7.3 
IRRULG Sey oe A et 2 Bein Sih 1 ee ES ee Ee Se Ney og Se Bs 2: Be| et ee 
WTSI C Keser GR Fe ae Fi en ek Sie SO elas WIE ai ei eR nee ee, ea a 53) Srl eee ee 
SPECTRE CT OPS oes ars See eho a Neel SSB a Spit alee a a ere nee ee |. - = -(@) Pca eer Sees Ae So 
MiscellanGous:GhOPSs 224 yess ees Seen ee ge ety ae Sine eae apes a3) 2.0 1.2 
Mota oo pees eae pe ak a | mye eer eetttre eae RE ga 100. 0 100. 0 100. 0 
dota tilledscrops (eld) 2227 2 Se aie Ce ptm cian ee oe 28.3 26. 9 53.9 
‘Motalksm agli erain = ase ee oy ee 5 Dae ees a ee ee Pe pee Ae | 24.7 28. 7 37.6 
aD OP Se ay ena soe ee eee Be ow Fo. eh URE Ae, ine ere ae Memes 44.0 39.0 7.3 
a Less than oxe-ha.f of 0.1 per cent. 
The reasons why these various crops occupy the places they do in 
the agriculture of this region will be discussed in some detail in 
another portion of this bulletin. 
For the sake of comparison, the percentage area is given in Table 
III for the various creps on a group of Ulinois farms included in a 
survey and reported in Bulletin 41 of this department.t_ Wheat is 
the only crop which occupies a similar status in the two localities... In 
the corn-belt area corn occupies more than twice the area it does in 
Chester County. This is not so much because corn is so much better 
adapted to the western locality; in fact, the yield of corn per acre 
is considerably higher on the Pendepieanth farms than it is on the 
Illinois farms. It is due rather to the fact that economic conditions 
in the western locality are not so favorable to other crops as they 
are in the East. | 
The most. striking difference between the two regions is the 
difference in the relative acreage of hay. Hay does just as well in 
Tllinois as it does in Pennsylvania, but economic and other conditions 
are not so favorable for its production. In the first place, beef eattle and 
hogs, which are the dominant productive live stock in the Ilinois area, 
consume much less hay than do dairy cattle, which are the dominant 
type in Chester County. In the second place, the price of hay in the 
West is much less than it is in the East. We have here an excellent 
illustration of the fact that conditions other than soil and climate 
must be taken into consideration in determining what crops the 
farmer should grow. 
1A Farm-Management Survey of Three Representative Areas in Indiana, Illinois, and 
Iowa, 1914, 
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