A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Pig. 42.—Alfalfa demands soUk that are not add, and it is most cured in aclimate that is not rainy during the summer. Consequently, it thrives best m theWMtern States where it is grown mostly under irrigation, and fairly well in thelimlstoSe sections of the B^stf where its culture is increasing rapidly. This increasehf«, be?n notable in the slightly subhumid section of eastern Kansas and NebraskaSphere rtP acreage has increased over sixfold in the past 20 years. Alfalfa replaceswnd lay in th?sarea as t
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Pig. 42.—Alfalfa demands soUk that are not add, and it is most cured in aclimate that is not rainy during the summer. Consequently, it thrives best m theWMtern States where it is grown mostly under irrigation, and fairly well in thelimlstoSe sections of the B^stf where its culture is increasing rapidly. This increasehf«, be?n notable in the slightly subhumid section of eastern Kansas and NebraskaSphere rtP acreage has increased over sixfold in the past 20 years. Alfalfa replaceswnd lay in th?sarea as the major hay crop. Seven-eighths of the alfalfa acreage iswest of tJie Missouri River (see Figs. 4, 6, and lb). 452 Yearbook of the Department of Agrictdture, Fig. 43.—This map shows the acreage o( clover grown alone (for timothy and clovermixed see Pig. 40). Clover may mean red, mammoth, or alsike clover in the Northernand Central States, crimson clover, a very different plant, in the coastal plain of Dela-ware, Maryland, and Virginia, bur clover in parts of the South, and was specificallystated in the census schedule to include lespedeza. Consequently, the map above, likethat of wild hay, includes several different plants, all legumes, however. Most of theclover acreage, it will be noted. Is located in the Corn Belt and the Corn and WinterWheat Region, particularly alon^ the lower Ohio River and up the Mississippi as far asSt. Louis. Much of this clover is grown for seed as well as for hay.
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