. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 25.—The concentration of steers 2 years old and over in certain smallfeeding areas in the western portion of the Corn Belt 1« noteworthy. Otherfeeding centers should be noted in the limestone valleys that extend fromsoutheastern Pennslvania to eastern Tennessee, in the blue-grass districtof Kentucky, in southern Texas and the northern Panhandle, in the sugarbeet districts along the North and the South Platte Rivers, and in theSan Joaquin Valley in California. The total number in the United States,4,629,778, was about the same as of yearlings. 250 YearhooJ: of t
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 25.—The concentration of steers 2 years old and over in certain smallfeeding areas in the western portion of the Corn Belt 1« noteworthy. Otherfeeding centers should be noted in the limestone valleys that extend fromsoutheastern Pennslvania to eastern Tennessee, in the blue-grass districtof Kentucky, in southern Texas and the northern Panhandle, in the sugarbeet districts along the North and the South Platte Rivers, and in theSan Joaquin Valley in California. The total number in the United States,4,629,778, was about the same as of yearlings. 250 YearhooJ: of the Department of Agriculture, 1921. EEEF COWS AND HEIFERS r tAR<: OLD AND OvEe JAN 1 1920. FiO; 26.—The most amportant breeding grounds of beef cattle are the westernportion of the^Corn Belt; tbe Great Plains, especially western Texas andeastern New Mexico and Colorado; the valleys and high plateaus of thefar West; and the subtropical coast from Texas to Georgia. Notablysparse are the number oif beef cows in the Cotton Belt and in the dairyregion of tlie North Atlantic and Lake States. The total number of beefcows and heifers 2 years old and over was 12,624,996.
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