A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 43.—This map shows the acreage o( clover grown alone (for timothy and clovermixed see Pig. 40). Clover may mean red, mammoth, or alsike clover in the Northernand Central States, crimson clover, a very different plant, in the coastal plain of Dela-ware, Maryland, and Virginia, bur clover in parts of the South, and was specificallystated in the census schedule to include lespedeza. Consequently, the map above, likethat of wild hay, includes several different plants, all legumes, however. Most of theclover a
A graphic summary of American agriculture, based largely on the census of 1920 ... . Fig. 43.—This map shows the acreage o( clover grown alone (for timothy and clovermixed see Pig. 40). Clover may mean red, mammoth, or alsike clover in the Northernand Central States, crimson clover, a very different plant, in the coastal plain of Dela-ware, Maryland, and Virginia, bur clover in parts of the South, and was specificallystated in the census schedule to include lespedeza. Consequently, the map above, likethat of wild hay, includes several different plants, all legumes, however. Most of theclover acreage, it will be noted. Is located in the Corn Belt and the Corn and WinterWheat Region, particularly alon^ the lower Ohio River and up the Mississippi as far asSt. Louis. Much of this clover is grown for seed as well as for « Zl- ?¥•—^^ 5P shows the geographic distribution of the census item entitledOther tame or cultivated grasses cut for hay. In New England and New York itconsists mostly of redtop, quack grass, orchard grass, and Canada blue grass: the densecenter in southern Illinois is largely redtop; in the Black Prairie of Alabama andMississippi, and in general throughout the South, the dots represent Bermuda and John-son grass principally; while in eastern Tennessee orchard grass and tall rye grassprobably constitute most of the acreage shown. The scattered acreage in the Statesfrom North Dakota to Texas Is almost wholly millet, Sudan grass, or amber cane A Graphic Simmnary of Americom AgricuUii/re. 453 SMALL GRAINS CUT FOR HAY WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS, AND RYE) h»cH DOT REPRESENTS ACREAGE 1919 ioooagres
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