. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FORESTS OP PORTO RICO. 11 /B2B During the same period the area oi so-called pasture land had more than doubled, so that it exceeded in extent all the other land classes combined, and privately owned forests had increased slightly. Private owner- ship was thus almost doubled, having absorbed nearly 95 per cent of the total land area. During the period of American occu- pation the cultivated area has nearly doubled, amoimting in 1912 to per cent.^ Of this area cane covers a trifle more than two-fifths, coffee more
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. FORESTS OP PORTO RICO. 11 /B2B During the same period the area oi so-called pasture land had more than doubled, so that it exceeded in extent all the other land classes combined, and privately owned forests had increased slightly. Private owner- ship was thus almost doubled, having absorbed nearly 95 per cent of the total land area. During the period of American occu- pation the cultivated area has nearly doubled, amoimting in 1912 to per cent.^ Of this area cane covers a trifle more than two-fifths, coffee more than one-third, minor fruits about a fifth, and tobacco, coconuts, oranges, and pineapples, in the order named, the remainder. This agricultural ex- pansion has been carried on about equally at the expense of "pasture" and "timber and brush" lands. On account, however, of the much greater area of pasture lands, these were rela- tively little affected in the aggregate, while the forest lands were reduced nearly two-fifths. There- is no information available showing the average-size holdings in the various classes of property or in what proportion the economically-de- veloped lands are held in conjunc- tion with the waste and forested lands. The data upon which the dia- grams (fig, 3) are based most nearly approach this information by showing for the assessment area analyzed the proportion of the total, "by num- ber" and "by area" of the faims in certain acreage PUBLIC LAND f—"! PRIVATE LAND jCULTIVATED LAND I ^g PASTURE |1 1 TIMBER AND BRUSH I GHHHl UNCLASSIFIED •^ (1912 ONLY)- Fig. 2.—Land in Porto Rico. The changes from public to private ownersMp and the main uses to which it is put. 1 This figure differs from the one (56 per cent) given in the Register of Porto Rico for 1910, which also varies from the so-called "improved area" ( per cent) given by the Thirteenth Decennial Census (1910). Both of these p
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