. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 26.—Com is cut for forage mostlv around the margin of the Corn Belt and inthe Middle and South Atlantic States. This practice corresponds, in a general way,with the areas in which corn is cut and shocked. Doubtless much, perhaps most, ofthis com reported to the census as cut for forage was also harvested for grain. Muchof the acreage of corn shown on this map, therefore, is also shown on the map of comfor grain (Fig. 24). The Department of Agriculture estimates the area of corn cutfor forage only in 1921 at acres. Corn forage is fed almost wholly to c
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fig. 26.—Com is cut for forage mostlv around the margin of the Corn Belt and inthe Middle and South Atlantic States. This practice corresponds, in a general way,with the areas in which corn is cut and shocked. Doubtless much, perhaps most, ofthis com reported to the census as cut for forage was also harvested for grain. Muchof the acreage of corn shown on this map, therefore, is also shown on the map of comfor grain (Fig. 24). The Department of Agriculture estimates the area of corn cutfor forage only in 1921 at acres. Corn forage is fed almost wholly to cattle,though a little is used to feed sheep and horses. A Graphic Swmmary of American Agriculture. 437. Fig. 27.—Corn is the great American cereal, constituting alwut 60 per cent of thetonnage of all cereals grown in the United States, and over 50 per cent of the than half of this crop is produced in the Corn Belt; but corn is the leading cropin value also in the Corn and Winter Wheat Belt, and is the all-important cereal inthe Cotton Belt. Corn a very productive crop, yielding, in general, alx)ut twice asmany pounds of grain per acre as wheat, oats, barley, or rye. The climate and soil ofthe Corn Belt are peculiarly suited to it. Probably no other area in the -world ofequal extent produces so much food per square mile as the Corn Belt. (See Figs. 21and 104.)
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