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Title: Meat Situation in the United States - Part 3. Methods and Cost of Growing Beef Cattle in the Corn Belt States
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Department of Agriculture Ward, W.F Cooper, Morton O Cotton, J.S United States. Department of Agriculture
Subjects: Meat industry and trade
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : G.P.O.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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39122132 748580 The average area devoted to pasture varies from 104 acres, or 29per cent of the total farm area, in Mnnesota to 191 acres, or 65 percent, in Indiana, where the land is generally rough and broken. Thearea in com varies from 43 acres, or 15 per cent of the total farmarea, in Indiana to 146 acres, or 29 per cent, in South Dakota and105 acres, or 28 per cent, in Nebraska. An average of 85 acres, or29 per cent of the area of the farms visited in Iowa, was plantedto com. The amount of small grain, including oats, wheat, andbarley, varied from 5 per cent of the total area in Indiana to 18 percent in Iowa and South Dakota and 19 per cent in Nebraska. Thearea of hay on these farms ranged from 9 per cent in Indiana to 20per cent in ^lissouri. 16 MEAT SITUATION IX THE UNITED STATES. The average value of the land on the Indiana farms, where 65 percent of the land is in pasture and only 15 per cent in corn, is $59 peracre. In Iowa, where 31 per cent of the farm is in pasture and 29
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Fia. 2.—The rrl.iiivo size of farms aiul the areas in pastiiro and in corn, in the six groups, bj States. I ••111 ill (•(.III, the nvcra^c^ valu(> is $175 per acre (see PI. II).The X())raska farms, 31 per cent of which were devoted to pastm-eand 2.S jxt (-(mH Io rorn, are vahicMJ at S132 per acre. BEEF CATTLE IX ) THE CORN BELT STATES. 17 Generally speaking, on the farms that were visited, the larger thearea in corn and the smaller the area in pasture the more valuablethe land. The Indiana farmers had an average investment in realestate of less than S20,000, while for the Iowa farmers the sameinvestment was from S50,000 to S55,000. The farms (see fig 2) in the beef and baby-beef groups mvariablyaverage larger than those in any of the other groups in all States. Tliedual-purpose group, ignormg cases where there were only one or tworecords, average the smallest, although in Iowa they were verynearly as large as those in the mixed and double-nursmg groups.The farms in the mixe

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