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Title: Yearbook of agriculture
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: United States. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: Washington U.S. Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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; /•JV^^^*! jfe^ ^ ^ ~~# ! sEsSissics p*^. ^B& a ^^N^ ^^* * ^ *^M;k9bumL^ 0 ■♦ *^ t^ r-^,-v. 01. - 5 J i^Q 1 ^(£ ^ -J Fk;. S.—Three-quarters of the farm land is in the Mississippi Vallev. Or consideringthe distribution with reference to rainfall, two-thirds is humid farm land in the East,and one-third is mostly arid, semiarid, or irrigated farm land in the West. In the Eastthe land not in farms is hillj-, stony, sandy, swampv. or infertile, and nearly all inforest or recently cut over. (See Fig. 1.3.) But in the West only one-sixth of the landnot in farms is in forest, and one-ninth in woodland and chaparral, while one-sixteenthis absolute desert, the remaining two-thirds being open range, more or less coveredwith grasses and shrubby plants and used for grazing cattle or sheep. (See Figs. 81and 92.) A Graphic Symmarij of American AgricuUme. 423
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Ppnnsvlvanifi rpntral Texas and north-central North Dakota. of the^land area is improved farm land, whereas in the United States outside this area only 15 per cent is improved. 424 Tearhooh of the Department of Agi^iculture, 1921,

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