Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-10-05
CULTIVATED AREA OF THE COUNTRY
Interestin: and Instructive Data Concern
 ing the Principal Crops.

Interestin: and Instructive Data Concern
 ing the Principal Crops.
 The breadth of cultivated area in- creases largely each season. In the new CT states and territories settlement IS rapid. and each year new areas almost equal to states in their aggregate are given over to the blow. while in older | sections east of the Mississippi river new farms are appearing on hitherto uncultl- vated lands. The rapility with which this extension las gone on during recent years has been recently noted by the national statistician, who furnishes the data here given: In 1879 the four princl- pal arabic crops-corn, wheat. oats ana cotton-occupied l2S.000,000 acres; in 1888 this area had increased to l59 .0O0,- | OOO-an enlargement in nine years ot l 3l, ,OOO, ,000 acres. If the increase in all l titled and grass land has been in the same proportion as that in these four
 crops. we have now a total area of im-
 proved lands in farms of 356,OOO.o0o
 acres. against 2S5 900 ,000 in 1879
 With the rapid increase of aggregate
 area there is generally but little change
 in the comparative breadth given to each
 of the principal staple crops In the
 minor crops the fluctuations are greater
 an extended area one year often result
 ing in low prices of the product and
 diminished acreage the next. In some
 seasons there is a forced change Of pro
 portions, resulting from an unfavorabie
 planting time for one crop. or from other natural causes. These variations are only temporary. the next favorable sea son finding the proportions restored to
 the normal
 Each of the principal crops the pres ent season occupies it's average Propor tion of the total area In some sections !. there is tendency to change from one crop to another, but an increase Ill on' place is balanced by reduction else " where, so that aggregates are the same > In the New England states there is
 tendency to more grass and dairy farm x ing. and the increase seems to be at tn v expense of corn and potatoes, the price u of both of which have ruled low durln the year past. An increased acreage is devoted to oats in the middle and mort ~ Atlantic states, with some enlargemer Ill of grass land and increased attention - truCk IarullHS anu lndl A0t 5oA III The cotton states show the usual increas '. @ in the acreage of their staple, with mol le determined effort than usual to grow " home supply of grains and food stuffs. is In Alabama and Georgia especial
 there seems to have been some success S the effort to reduce the importance
 cotton, due apparently to the directi'
 of farmers associations. The effort od make tobacco staple crop in Florida oT being continued on larger acreage al ar. with apparent success Elsewhere t
 area of this crop has been very matters Ina ly reduced both in the cigar and shippi his districts. The acreage of spring whe hat seems to have declined in Wisconsin a s ase Minnesota, owing to ravages of ,oIe chinch bug Flax shows decline her cultivation in the older districts and ned increase in the newer regions, where Di Diad % makes an excellent first crop. lncrea'
 attention is being given to sorghum his portions of Kansas and locally in so 'ooa other states