. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 2S.—Rye is practically all fall sown. It competes successfully withwinter wheat on poor soils, and with spring wheat because it permits abetter distribution of labor throughout the year. This explains its ex-tensive production in North Dakota, where spring wheat is the dominantcrop, and winter wheat can not be CORN ACREAGE, 1919 STATE ACRES 1 STATE ACRES lo»a. 9,006,733 Ci ... 4,269,455 7,908,385 K»n>. 3,676,074 Nebr. 6, 3, ,079 AU. . 1 T« .. 3, ,400 3, Fig. 29
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 2S.—Rye is practically all fall sown. It competes successfully withwinter wheat on poor soils, and with spring wheat because it permits abetter distribution of labor throughout the year. This explains its ex-tensive production in North Dakota, where spring wheat is the dominantcrop, and winter wheat can not be CORN ACREAGE, 1919 STATE ACRES 1 STATE ACRES lo»a. 9,006,733 Ci ... 4,269,455 7,908,385 K»n>. 3,676,074 Nebr. 6, 3, ,079 AU. . 1 T« .. 3, ,400 3, Fig. 29.—Corn is widely grown under warm humid and semiarid production in the corn belt is the of hog and cattle feed-ing. As a late-sown tilled ci-op, wherever grown, it enables weed control,better rotations, diversified farming, including stock raising, and betterseasonal labor distribution. It also is the dominant silage crop for dairy andbeef production. 104 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ for Profitable Production. Most of the wheat farming in this country lies betweenthe Corn Belt and the ranching regions of the West. Thereactions which occur between these general classes of farm-ing lead manj observers to look upon corn farming as en-croaching upon wheat farming and to
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