A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . MO oajs M a« Z1,41U)1 Tl«?97JS3Hi:SB m 7IB I7( STUt DUrUD ra mil TOIUrJUD ff. n. 7U8M97 eoaai «i S2SSIJS7(SID m>.. Okk. I4UIUIS «.c7m m msss M3» ustmuz m Fio. 110.—The expenditure for labor in 1919 was greatest in the trucking, fruit, anddairying areas, especially the coastal belt from Norfolk, Va., to Salem, Mass., the Ontariolowland of New ^ork, the Elgin dairy disti-iet of northern Illinois and southern Wis-S^fu^^ ti^^isated valley
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . MO oajs M a« Z1,41U)1 Tl«?97JS3Hi:SB m 7IB I7( STUt DUrUD ra mil TOIUrJUD ff. n. 7U8M97 eoaai «i S2SSIJS7(SID m>.. Okk. I4UIUIS «.c7m m msss M3» ustmuz m Fio. 110.—The expenditure for labor in 1919 was greatest in the trucking, fruit, anddairying areas, especially the coastal belt from Norfolk, Va., to Salem, Mass., the Ontariolowland of New ^ork, the Elgin dairy disti-iet of northern Illinois and southern Wis-S^fu^^ ti^^isated valleys of the West. Heavy expenditure is also shown in mostOf the Corn Belt, and somewhat less in the Winter and Spring Wheat Areas. Althouehcotton is a crop requiring much more labor than any other major crop, the cash expendi-ture is small in the Cotton Belt because most of the labor is furnished by croppera andtenants. In the Black Pralne of Texas, however, many Mexicans are hired to pick Graphic Svrnimary of American Agricultwe. 497 SS§S53S3a«-353S3 SSg35S3gSSSSSS3SSS. Fig. Ill-—Tbe average value of farms. Including buildings, machinery, and live the prairie portion of the Corn Belt and the southern part of the Spring WheatRegion is about $10,000. The high values shown in western Texas and northern Nevadaare mostly of cattle ranches, which are few in number and large in area, often includingthousands of acres of arid range. In central and southern California, on the other hand,uiany of the high-priced farms are small, but consist of expensive orchards, or of bean01- sugar-beet land. The very low-priced farms shown in the eastern Cotton Belt are,in large part, small cropper or tenant holdings in plantations. The light areas in Ken-tuckv and Tennessee represent poor mountain, farms. 498 Yearbook of the DepartiTient of AgricvZture, 1921.
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