A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . .o£i „„/? 5. raaP^ shows the approximate location and extent of forest cut-overin ^;»n ** woodland which could he used for the production of crops after cTearin and n many areas after drainage also. Only such part of this land ^hraiid i^ „io„™).cn^^r, ? Ti^. P/y adequate return 0/ the cost of cleSng Th^Sdmates wereLiH?«t?fi° ^^^^ from census data, Forest Service reports, and from corresDondMclwith State and county officials and lumber companies, and not in 1920 as stated BevlSe^estimates are being compiled, ba
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . .o£i „„/? 5. raaP^ shows the approximate location and extent of forest cut-overin ^;»n ** woodland which could he used for the production of crops after cTearin and n many areas after drainage also. Only such part of this land ^hraiid i^ „io„™).cn^^r, ? Ti^. P/y adequate return 0/ the cost of cleSng Th^Sdmates wereLiH?«t?fi° ^^^^ from census data, Forest Service reports, and from corresDondMclwith State and county officials and lumber companies, and not in 1920 as stated BevlSe^estimates are being compiled, based largely on l^^h censii« fl^iireS «„?i =?,„ ^^edand forest surveys,%ence^no table is givlnin ?onne7tion wi?h the map ^ ^ 99912°—YBK 1921 28 428 Yearbook of the DeparPrmnt of Agriovltmre, Fig. 15.—This map is based largely npon drainage reports available in the Office ofIiTigatlon and Uramage Investigations, and upon soil survey, topographic, and LandOffice maps. These,reports and maps were compared with statistics of drainage enter-prises and of land in farms needing drainage, available for the flrst time in the 1920census, by L. A Jones, of the Bureau of Public Boads, and F. J. Marschner of theOffice of Farm Management and Farm Economics, who drew the map. Two-thirds of theland nnflt for cultivation without drainage Is in the Southern State™ and one haltof the remainder is in the three Lake States. Nearly all of the wet land in the ^nJithexcept the Morida Bverglades and prairies, tidal marlh, and oSf cS^tal piSrieg is^lit^tco^S&ilflTt:.^.r^^l^^oT =*=? ^ ** ^ land iSTh^ta.^^ A Graphic Svmimary of American Agriculture. 429
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