A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 31.—The United States produces about one-flfth of the worlds wheat, as com-pared with three-flfths of the worlds corn and cotton. The wheat crop of the UnitedStates, measured In bushels, is usually from one-fourth to one-third of the corn crop. Halfof the wheat crop was grown in six States in 1919. Kansas was the leading State, asusual, but North Dakota, which has often ranlsed first and is usually second, had a verypoor crop in 1919. On the other hand, both acreage and production were unusuallylarge that
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 31.—The United States produces about one-flfth of the worlds wheat, as com-pared with three-flfths of the worlds corn and cotton. The wheat crop of the UnitedStates, measured In bushels, is usually from one-fourth to one-third of the corn crop. Halfof the wheat crop was grown in six States in 1919. Kansas was the leading State, asusual, but North Dakota, which has often ranlsed first and is usually second, had a verypoor crop in 1919. On the other hand, both acreage and production were unusuallylarge that year in the southern portion of the Corn Belt and northern portion of theforn and Winter Wheat Region. (See Fig. 2.) A Graphic Svimmary of American Agriculture. 441. 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, 1921.
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