. Yearbook of agriculture . Fio 120 —Over half of thp urban population in the Unitcil Statos witliin thpHav and Pasture Region. The urban population in tins region constitutes nearlythree-fourths of its total population, and cver-nne-fourth ot tj&< total population ottneUnited States. Into this retrion the food and fibers of the West and ^outh constantlymove. The center of urban population, however, is located in the eastern portion oithe Corn Belt, near Piqua. Ohio: while the center of agricultural prodiiction i^ over400 miles to thf. west, near , Mo. Outside this H
. Yearbook of agriculture . Fio 120 —Over half of thp urban population in the Unitcil Statos witliin thpHav and Pasture Region. The urban population in tins region constitutes nearlythree-fourths of its total population, and cver-nne-fourth ot tj&< total population ottneUnited States. Into this retrion the food and fibers of the West and ^outh constantlymove. The center of urban population, however, is located in the eastern portion oithe Corn Belt, near Piqua. Ohio: while the center of agricultural prodiiction i^ over400 miles to thf. west, near , Mo. Outside this Hay and Pastuie Regionihe principal centers of urban population are found along tle northern inai-gin ot tne( orn and Winter Wheat Region, and on or near the Pacific coast. Towns of 2,500 to are shown bv the smaller size dot; larger cities by circles of varying size. A Graphic Summary of American Agriculture. 505 TRACTORS NUMBER OF FARMS REPORTINGJAN. 1, 1920. Fig. 121.—Tractors are most numerous in the Com Belt, in the Spring and WinterWheat Arpas, and in California. In the Spring Wheat Area, on January 1. 1920,about 1 farm in 6 had a tractor ; in the Corn Belt, in Kansas, and in California ahout1 farm in 10 ; elsewhere in the United States 1 farm in 2 > to 50, except in the Statessouth of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers, where less than 1 farm in 100 had a acreage of cotton a farmer can handle is not limited by the acreage he can plowand plant, as with wheat, or can cultivate, as with com, but by the amount he canpick, and a tractor can not help in picking cotton.
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