A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . « Zl- ?¥•—^^ 5P shows the geographic distribution of the census item entitledOther tame or cultivated grasses cut for hay. In New England and New York itconsists mostly of redtop, quack grass, orchard grass, and Canada blue grass: the densecenter in southern Illinois is largely redtop; in the Black Prairie of Alabama andMississippi, and in general throughout the South, the dots represent Bermuda and John-son grass principally; while in eastern Tennessee orchard grass and tall rye grassprobably constitute most
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . « Zl- ?¥•—^^ 5P shows the geographic distribution of the census item entitledOther tame or cultivated grasses cut for hay. In New England and New York itconsists mostly of redtop, quack grass, orchard grass, and Canada blue grass: the densecenter in southern Illinois is largely redtop; in the Black Prairie of Alabama andMississippi, and in general throughout the South, the dots represent Bermuda and John-son grass principally; while in eastern Tennessee orchard grass and tall rye grassprobably constitute most of the acreage shown. The scattered acreage in the Statesfrom North Dakota to Texas Is almost wholly millet, Sudan grass, or amber cane A Graphic Simmnary of Americom AgricuUii/re. 453 SMALL GRAINS CUT FOR HAY WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS, AND RYE) h»cH DOT REPRESENTS ACREAGE 1919 ioooagres. 1 STATE ACRES STATE ACRES Calif. 1,085,380 Mo. .. 189,857 T« .. 172,626 477,081 Idaho . 167,531 preg. 467,390 Tenn . 5. Dak 109,107 Fig. 45.—The small grains—barley, oats, wheat, and occasionally rye^—aro cut greenfor hay, mostly in the Pacific Coast States, where a hay crop is needed which will growquickly during the cool, moist winters, and which need not survive the long summerdrought. In California barley mostly is used, but in Washington and Oregon wheatand oats are more commonly cut for hay. The large acreage shown in North Dakotaand eastern Montana Is mostly wheat, and is doubtless larger than usual owing to thedry season which caused the crop in much ot this area to be scarcely worth threshin:^.
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