. Yearbook of agriculture . / \ N SisS=1 \ \ 3 it) ,^, ^^JSezo>o Fi«. 37.—Nearly 90 per cent of the tobacco acreage is in six States—Kentucky, NorthCarolina, Virginia, Tennessee. South Carolina, and Ohio. But there are also importantcenters of production, especially of certain types, in southern Maryland, in LancasterCounty, Pa., in the Connecticut Valley, and in .southern Wisconsin. Tobacco is veryeensitive to soil conditions, but these requirements vary with the different types. Rice production is now largely confined to the coastal prairies of Louisiana and Texas,the prairie district of
. Yearbook of agriculture . / \ N SisS=1 \ \ 3 it) ,^, ^^JSezo>o Fi«. 37.—Nearly 90 per cent of the tobacco acreage is in six States—Kentucky, NorthCarolina, Virginia, Tennessee. South Carolina, and Ohio. But there are also importantcenters of production, especially of certain types, in southern Maryland, in LancasterCounty, Pa., in the Connecticut Valley, and in .southern Wisconsin. Tobacco is veryeensitive to soil conditions, but these requirements vary with the different types. Rice production is now largely confined to the coastal prairies of Louisiana and Texas,the prairie district of eastern Arkansas, and the flat valley of the Sacramento in Cali-fornia, all areas of heavy sul)soils which hold the irrigation water. ^ ,, .. Flax is grown in the Spring Wheat and Northera Great Plains Areas. Nearly half ofthe hemo is raised in Wisconsin. A Graphic Svnnmary of American Agriculture. 447. \ Fig. 38.—This map of hav and forage includes not only tlie hay crops but aJso cornand the sorghums cut for silage or fodder an<l root crops used for forage—13 items inall in the census schedule, of which 8 are shown in the following maps, and 3 havealready been shown (figs. 25, 26, and 36). The hay and forage acreage, it will be noted,is largely concentrated in the Hay and Pasture Region and around the margin ot theCorn Belt, the greatest State acreage being found in New York and the greatest ton-nage production in Wisconsin. Relative to the acreage in crops, however, hay andforage is most important In the Rocky Mountain Region, where it occupies 55 per centof the crop land. 44^ Yearbook of the Department of Agriculiure, 1921.
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