A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . V:- — L. Z • • . ^ 0 z • • J 0 0 ? 1 ^fi 1 -uliiL/1. r 1 m / :- -f: . | S / . / •;•• k^- • •. • D / /. / •• ., z / . • ,.:• - 3a lil^ VtiS^y?;^;. #?? sga •i-aJ^ ^ isisssiS^ iiSd-SSij iSdfij Fio. 96.—Two areas of dense aistribution of bees stand out on the map, the southernAppalachians and southern California. The southern Appalachian area, extending fromeastern Kentucky to northern Georgia and Alabama, had about 600,000 colonies ia1919 and produced about 7,000,000 pounds of honey; whereas Cali
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . V:- — L. Z • • . ^ 0 z • • J 0 0 ? 1 ^fi 1 -uliiL/1. r 1 m / :- -f: . | S / . / •;•• k^- • •. • D / /. / •• ., z / . • ,.:• - 3a lil^ VtiS^y?;^;. #?? sga •i-aJ^ ^ isisssiS^ iiSd-SSij iSdfij Fio. 96.—Two areas of dense aistribution of bees stand out on the map, the southernAppalachians and southern California. The southern Appalachian area, extending fromeastern Kentucky to northern Georgia and Alabama, had about 600,000 colonies ia1919 and produced about 7,000,000 pounds of honey; whereas California, -with only181,000 colonies, produced 5,500,000 pounds, or almost three times as much per also produced over 5,000,000 pounds of honey In 1919. The irrigated districtsin the West, where fruit and alfalfa furnish many flowers, show distinctly on the having large numbers of bees may also be noted in New York State, alons tneOhio Bivei, and in southern Illinois. A Grafhic Sijcmmary of Americcm Agiimltwe. 489. v.„^i„,r thp distribution of farms, might also serve as a map ?Fig. 97.—This map, J*owing the distnou lo ^^^^^^^^^^^ Pennsylvania, the upperof farm population. The densest areab central, and western Tennessee, the Piedmont ot So«» O^™^^^ Delta in Mississippi. Over half the farms in the UnitedOhio Valley, and t?^ Yazoo Ueita ™ ^ (, ^^a winter Wheat Region. Many of theStates are in the Cotton Belt ana i e ^^^^^^ g^j^_ however, are little more thantenant farms on the Pli°^^n Belt, although it includes over one-third the value oflaborers allotments, ^he cori^D ^ only one-seventh of the fanns. Nine-tenths offarm property in the Umtea Bia , ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ relatiye density of farm the farms are m the eastern^u^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^g^^ ^^_ ^q^ ^^^ j^g jpopulation in tne ouui- 490 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 1921.
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