. Yearbook of agriculture . roducts. (Compare Fig. 2 with Figs. 118to 120.) Information concerning farm facilities, including tractors, auto-mobiles, water piped into the house, and telephones, was collectedby the census in 1920 for the first time. Tractors are found mostlyin the Corn Belt, and the Spring Wheat. Great Plains, and SouthPacific Regions. Over one-third of the automobiles are in the CornBelt, where one-half to three-quarters of the farms have such ve-hicles. Water lias been piped into the houses mostly in the Haj^ andPasture Region, especially in Xew England, and in the South Paci
. Yearbook of agriculture . roducts. (Compare Fig. 2 with Figs. 118to 120.) Information concerning farm facilities, including tractors, auto-mobiles, water piped into the house, and telephones, was collectedby the census in 1920 for the first time. Tractors are found mostlyin the Corn Belt, and the Spring Wheat. Great Plains, and SouthPacific Regions. Over one-third of the automobiles are in the CornBelt, where one-half to three-quarters of the farms have such ve-hicles. Water lias been piped into the houses mostly in the Haj^ andPasture Region, especially in Xew England, and in the South PacificRegion. Telephones are more widely distributed than any otherof the farm facilities; nevertheless, the map shows a noteworthy con-centration in the Corn Belt and the Hay and Pasture farm facilities are criteria of rural progress and prosperity,and as such their geographic distribution is deserving of considera-tion. (Compare Fig. 2 with Figs. 121 to 124.) 416 Yearhool of the Department of Agriculture^ Fiu. 2.—The United States mav be divided into two parts, equal in area, the East andthe West The East has a humiVl climate, the West mostly an arid or semiand clunate,except the North Pacific coast and the higher altitudes in the Sierra, Cascade, and KockyMountains. Each of these two parts has been subdivided into six agricultural regions,characterized by distinct combinations of crops or systems of farming, the result largelyof the different climatic conditions. In the East these regions, with one exception, arenamed after the crops : hut in the West, because of the dominating influence of topog-raphy and the Pacific Ocean upon the climate and the agriculture, topographic and geo-graphic names are used. (See pp. 7 to 9.) A Graph^r- Svmmnry of Ainprirny, AgiicuUriie. 417 -^^>-*^-
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