The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-31
INDIANA LEADS IN
RICHNESS OF LANDS
FOR COW PASTURE

WASHINGTON, July 31.-Surprise
has been manifested at the size and
value Of the nations hay crop. and
now it probably is the turn Of the
farmer himself to be surprised at the
information that the annual value OF
the pasturage Of this country is more
than one billion dollars.
Pasturage value has never been as
certained by the census and never In
cluded in the totals or farm produced
wealth, but pasturage area was re-
ported on the agriculture schedule OF
the census of 1910, and was tabulated
by the department of Agriculture in
1918. To this information has recent
ly been added an estimate of the cattle
carrying capacity Of this area, made
by the bureau Of crop estimates.
So Cattle for 100 Acres.
Per one hundred acres of all kinds
of pasture, the carrying capacity is
294 cattle in the average for the Unit
ed States. The leading state is lndi.
ana with SO cattle. the second is Iowa
with 81 cattle; Tennessee is third with
so cattle, Illinois fourth with 48 cat
tie, Wisconsin fifth with Al cattle,
Louisiana sixth with 445 cattle. and
then follow four states in each Of
which one hundred acres Of all kinds
of pastures, on the average, can carry
40 cattle-Minnesota Missouri. Ne
braska and Idaho.
At the other extreme, only 8 cattle
can be carried on the average one
hundred acres of pastures in Arizona,
9 cattle in Nevada, 10 cattle in New
Mexico. II cattle in Wyoming, II cat.
tie in New Hampshire, 10 cattle in
Montana and Colorado and IA cattle
in Oregon.
In the United States improved pas
ture can carry about twice as many
cattle as woodland and other pastures.
the average for the improved being
cattle.
The highest figure for improved pas.
ture in any state is 20 cattle per 100
acres in New Mexico. after which
follow Indiana with 65 cattle, Tennes-
see with 62 cattle, and Illinois, Wis
consin, Iowa, Louisiana and Idaho,
each with 60 cattle.
The wild pasture of Arizona can car
ry but cattle per one hundred acres,
and that of Wyoming, Nevada, Mon
tana. New Mexico, Colorado and Ore
gon can carry but Z to 10 cattle on
one hundred acres.
Pasturaee IA Months.
Improved pasture has an average OF
So months, woodland pasture II
months, and the average of all kinds
is IA months
For nearly a whole year, or lilo
months. the wild lands of Montana
are pastured, and this is not equaled
even by Florida, Louisiana, Texas.
New Mexico and Arizona for any kind
of pasture. Florida's period for wood
land is 1913 months and New Mexico's
period for improved pasture is the
same.
The period for woodland pasture in
Texas and for improved pasture in
Arizona is 9S months, for wild pas
| ture in Texas Sc months. for woodland
pasture in Louisiana and Arizona, 90
months, in New Mexico 9.4 months, for
wild pasture in California and i'm.
proved and wild pasture in Louisiana
81 months, and for all kinds of pas
ture in Rhode Island and wild pasture
in Arizona, months.
Even in the northern New England
states and in New York, the mountains
Of ennsylvania, in Minnesota and
North Dakota, and for woodland pas
ture in Wyoming and Utah the pastur.
ing season lasts hardly less than q
months.