A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 32.—The Oat Belt of the United States consists of a crescent-shaped area extendingfrom New England to North Dakota, bounded on the north by the Great Lakes and onthe south by the Corn and Winter Wheat Kegion. An arm extends southwestwardlyfrom this belt across eastern Kansas and Oklahoma to central Texas. Oats prefer a cool,moist climate, and this large acreage in the Corn Belt and southwesterly is owing moreto the need of feed for horses, and of a spring grain nurse crop for clover, than to par-ticularly
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 32.—The Oat Belt of the United States consists of a crescent-shaped area extendingfrom New England to North Dakota, bounded on the north by the Great Lakes and onthe south by the Corn and Winter Wheat Kegion. An arm extends southwestwardlyfrom this belt across eastern Kansas and Oklahoma to central Texas. Oats prefer a cool,moist climate, and this large acreage in the Corn Belt and southwesterly is owing moreto the need of feed for horses, and of a spring grain nurse crop for clover, than to par-ticularly favorable climatic conditions. In the Southern States of the oats arefall sown, but in the North the oats are sown In the spring. 442 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, Pig. 33.—It should be noted that a dot on this map represents only one-flfth as muchacreage as on the maps of corn, wheat, and oats. Barley is a minor crop in theUnited States compared with these crops, except in southeastern Wisconsin, southeasternand northwestern Minnesota, the eastern portions of the Dakotas, and the valleys ofCalifornia. In these five States nearly two-thirds of the Nations barley acreage isfound. Minor centers may be noted on the map in northwestern Kansas, southeastern,Michigan, and northwestern New York. These barley districts are characterized by acool, sunny climate. The crop In California is grown during tbe winter. Much barleyis also sown in California to be cut green for hay (see Fig. 45). A Graphic Summary of American Agricubtv/re. 443
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