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Title: A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Beker, Oliver Edwin, 1883-
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: (Washington
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Fig. 102.—Improved land is a better criterion of the real size of a farm than itstotal area, The Cotton Belt stands out clearly, with the farms in most of the areaaveraging less than 40 acres. The same small acreage per farm is found in easternNew England, where trucking and dairying dominate, and in the upper Lakes area,where farms are only partially ifeclalmed from the forest. At the other extreme, muchof 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, thenceto central Texas, marks the eastern margin of the prairies (see Fig. 7). Prairie farmswere more easily and auickly made than forest farms, and have remained larger. (SeeFig. 111.) 99912°—YBK 1921 32 492 Tearbooh of the Department of Agriculture, 19^1.
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Fig. 103.—The Corn Belt Is conspicuous on this map, averase land vhIupo in /.or.t^iH.1Illinois and northwestern Iowa having risen to over $250 a Icre ?n 1919 There h™lbeen a decline since. The irrigated areas are also shown on the man n«h„tr„„ if^Svalues of over $2.50 hut this Is not true of all the diltHcts EvL t?.^ TargerTr^iOTtedareas were too small to show other than in black, and many smaller districts could nSbe shown at all. The regions of low land values are the arid and spmiarfd ?and^ ofthe West, the sandy thin, or stony solls.of the upper Lakes area and the North AtlanticStates, and the light or leached lands in parts of the South, where also much of the;arm may be in forest. The first box In the legend should reid $0-$10, the second bol A GrapMo Summary of Americmi AgHcultme. 493

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