. Yearbook of agriculture . PW ,™ miT TOTU ruD fSi lo. \ «a:?SJffl,«464J2031 ,,. .;. . «9,81U1! J446434372555344396 _ 0 I \ 4wl. Fig. 110.—The expenditure for labor in 1919 was greatest in the trucking, fruit, anddairying areas, e.^^pecially the coastal belt fioui Norfolk, Va., to Salem, Mass., the Ontariolowland of New York, the Elgin dairy district of northern Illinois and southern \Yis-(onsin, and the irrigated valleys of the West. Heavy expend
. Yearbook of agriculture . PW ,™ miT TOTU ruD fSi lo. \ «a:?SJffl,«464J2031 ,,. .;. . «9,81U1! J446434372555344396 _ 0 I \ 4wl. Fig. 110.—The expenditure for labor in 1919 was greatest in the trucking, fruit, anddairying areas, e.^^pecially the coastal belt fioui Norfolk, Va., to Salem, Mass., the Ontariolowland of New York, the Elgin dairy district of northern Illinois and southern \Yis-(onsin, and the irrigated valleys of the West. Heavy expenditure is also shown in mostof the Corn Belt, and somewhat less in the Winter and Spring Wheat Areas. Althoughcotton is a crop requiring much more labor than any other major crop, the cash expt-ndi-ture is small in the Cotton Belt because most of the labor is furnished by croppers andtenants. In the Black Prairie of Texas, however, many Mexicans are hired to pickcotton. A Graphic Svnnmaii/ of American Agriculture. 497. Fig. 111.—The average value of farms, including buildings, machinery, and live stock,in the prairie portion of the Corn Belt and the southern part of the Spring WheatRegion is about § The high values shown in Texas and northern Nevadaare mostly of cattle ranches, which are few in number and large in area, often includingthousands of acres of arid range. In central and southern California, on the other hand,many of the high-priced farms are small, but consist of expensive orchards, or of beanor sugar-beet land. The very low-priced farms shown in the eastern Cotton Belt are,in large part, small cropper or tenant holdings in plantations. The light areas in Ken-tucky and Tennessee represent poor mountain farms. 498 Yearhooh of the Departraent of Agr-icuU^re., 1921. ^ ToTJl ;; *^ ^ ss iiSSSSSsiSSiSiSisli ^ S§ ? i^ 2 f^ ^ (0 ^^ i fSy^^ltc * ^ (!i ri ^^^^ t? ?* = ^E s ss s a 3 a o Vj l^^Ar^T^
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