. Yearbook of agriculture . »]9.»1.«»J75 i;.7B.«,i£9236JHJ66 12502022823197W 215 1 5T*n TomruD fS. loturu) fS. Im ,06833564,,,516 $524S3f408282365 Nthla. PiC>B >,74«S7il4j2251,67801746J80,56942J0«,O3O 5703489330S96325 ;,< 112 Pig. 108.—The expenditure for feed is greatest in the Hay and Pasture Region, wheredairying dominates and the production of grain is deticient, and in the Corn Belt, wherefeed is freely bought and sold by the farmers, most of whom feed beef cattle and north-central
. Yearbook of agriculture . »]9.»1.«»J75 i;.7B.«,i£9236JHJ66 12502022823197W 215 1 5T*n TomruD fS. loturu) fS. Im ,06833564,,,516 $524S3f408282365 Nthla. PiC>B >,74«S7il4j2251,67801746J80,56942J0«,O3O 5703489330S96325 ;,< 112 Pig. 108.—The expenditure for feed is greatest in the Hay and Pasture Region, wheredairying dominates and the production of grain is deticient, and in the Corn Belt, wherefeed is freely bought and sold by the farmers, most of whom feed beef cattle and north-central Illinois the expenditure for feed is much less because the com is largelysold to the near-by Chicago market, and few cattle or hogs are raised. (See Figs. 28, 81,89, and 107.) The heavier expenditure siuown in the Puget Sound and Willamette Val-leys is largely for feed for dairy cows, while in California the feed is bought principallyfor dairy cows and poultry. 496 Yearhooh of the Department of Agriculture, Fig. 109.—Fertilizer is used at present principally oii the more intensively cultivatedcrops, particularly cotton, tobacco, fruit, and truck, including potatoes ; and almost -whollyas yet in the Eastern States, where the rainfall is heavier and the soils more half of the expenditure in 1019 was in the Coastal Plain and Piedmont portionsof Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia. Minor areas are the trucking districts of NewJersey and Long Island, the tobacco-onion district of the Connecticut Valley, the Aroos-took potato district in Maine, and the fruit-trucking district in southern significant and prophetic is the considerable expenditure shown in Ohio andImliaiia and even in Illinois and Iowa. ^ It. LABOir^-^\SM DURING 191 FVPFN DITURE F G VA u OF BO DURING -OR 4R0 AND 1919 LABOR EACH DOT REPRESO100000 DOLLARS 1 ^ r 1 ^ NCLUD S LODGlNGi uroomniE FOR um (Continixl) EXPENDITURE TOTAl AND __% \-^ FOR PER F ^ } L-, I ^M ^l^
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