. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 82.—Nearly half the dairy cattle in the United States are in the Hay and Pas-ture Region and the adjacent northern and eastern margin of the Corn Belt. Otherd<^nse areas will be noted in southeastern Pennsylvania, which is really Corn Beltcountry, and in th^ valleys of the North and South Pacific regions. In the Cotton Belt,especially the northern portion, dairy cattle are more numerous than beef cattle, butin the Great Plains. Rocky Mountain, and Arid Intermountain Regions they are muchless numerous. Nine-tenths of the dairy cattle are in the East. The dair
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 82.—Nearly half the dairy cattle in the United States are in the Hay and Pas-ture Region and the adjacent northern and eastern margin of the Corn Belt. Otherd<^nse areas will be noted in southeastern Pennsylvania, which is really Corn Beltcountry, and in th^ valleys of the North and South Pacific regions. In the Cotton Belt,especially the northern portion, dairy cattle are more numerous than beef cattle, butin the Great Plains. Rocky Mountain, and Arid Intermountain Regions they are muchless numerous. Nine-tenths of the dairy cattle are in the East. The dairy cattle incities and villages (not on farms and ranges) number 1,220,564, which is than4 per cent of all dairy cattle and calves in the United States. (See Figs. 25, 40, and 85.) 47S Yearhook of the Department of AgAcuJture^ 1921. PURE BRED BEEF CATTLENUMBER ON FARMS. JAN. 1. 1920. PURE BRED BEEF CATTLE STATE NUMBER STATt NUMBER I SI .359 ;k 57,100 56,028 83,902 38,713 29309 M. Dak 29,024 27,162 BEEF ami Contijiued) STATE NUMBER Ofcio. MooL. 19343 N Ma W, ;e,459 UaHo . 13319 Other. 1,064,912 Fig. 83.—The number of registered pure-bred beef cattle is more concentrated geo-graphically than that of all beef cattle. Iowa alone has one-seventh of the entire num-ber in the United States. Five per cent of the be-bred beef cattle in the country. About two-fifths of the registered be<f cattle are Shorthorns—nearly one-half if Polled Durhambe included—and nearly two-fifths more are Ilerefords. Aberdeen-Angus constit
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