. Yearbook of agriculture . STATr. NUMBER STATE NllBBEIt Iowa . 13,67« S. Dak 4,959 lU 13,128 Ind. . Minn . 4,093 Ohio. 6,471 Mont . N. Dak Nebr. 5,098 WU .. 2,824 Pi(j 79 —About half the pure-bred draft horses in the United States are in the CornBtlt and most of the other half are in the Hay and Pasture. Spring Wheat, and GreatPlains Regions. Very few are found in the South or Sourhwist. In California. Oregon,Washington, and Idaho, however, pure-bred draft relative to the total numl>erof horses are almost as common as in the Corn Belt. Three-four
. Yearbook of agriculture . STATr. NUMBER STATE NllBBEIt Iowa . 13,67« S. Dak 4,959 lU 13,128 Ind. . Minn . 4,093 Ohio. 6,471 Mont . N. Dak Nebr. 5,098 WU .. 2,824 Pi(j 79 —About half the pure-bred draft horses in the United States are in the CornBtlt and most of the other half are in the Hay and Pasture. Spring Wheat, and GreatPlains Regions. Very few are found in the South or Sourhwist. In California. Oregon,Washington, and Idaho, however, pure-bred draft relative to the total numl>erof horses are almost as common as in the Corn Belt. Three-fourth?! of the pure-breddraft horses in the United States are Percherons, 10 per cent are Belgians. 5 per cent areShires, and 4 per cent are Clydesdales, other breeds constituting the remaioder. A Graphic Summary of Americam Agriculture. 475. Fig. 80.—Cattle are more evenly distributed over the United States than any otherkind of live stock. The :e;~t area is in Iowa, northern Missouri, eastern Nebraska,southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, and northwestern IlUnoii. On Jan-^ary 1. 1920,there were about 14 million cattle in the Corn Belt, or 60 to the squsre mile: 12million in the Hay and Pasture R<gion, which is 36 to the square mile ; 10 million inthe Corn and Winter Wheat Recrfon. which i- 32 to the square mi:e ; 9 million in theCotton Belt, or 21 to the square mile ; and 9i million in the Great Plains Region, orabout 20 to the square mile. The seven other res^ions had about 14 million cattle, anaverage of 11 to the square mile. In Iowa there were 82 cattle to the square mile.(See Figs. 11, 27, and 3S.) 99912°—YBK 1921- -31 476 Yearbook of fixe DcjKirtmcttf of Agrieulture^ 1921.
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