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Excerpt from Farm Production in War and Peace Pacific Coast States the decline in the relative importance of farm produced power amounted to 82 percent while in the South Atlantic States the drop was only 48 percent. Thus, by farm - produced power had decreased in importance every where but was still an important item of production in the three Southern divisions where it represented on the average from 9 to 116 percent of gross farm production. These regional decreases are closely associated with increases in farm output for human use. The general trend in crop and pasture production in the United States follows closely the trend of total gross farm production. Annually, there is considerable more fluctuation in the crop index than there is in the total gross production index, because ofthe unstabilizing effect of weather on crop and pasture production (fig. National crop and pasture production was only about 10 percent larger in 1959 than it was 20 years earlier, but in the fifth year of the war, 1944, it was 17 percent greater than in prewar 1959. Increases in crop production per acre of cropland with practically no change in the cropland base, particularly since the drought and acreage adjustment period 1955 - 56, has been the dominant factor in the crop produc tion picture in the United States. Total cropland acreage in the United States has remained virtually unchanged since 1919. The flat trend in national cropland acreage resulted from compensating changes in the cropland base in the various geographic divisions (fig. During the l920's the trend in total cropland acreage was downward in the New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, South Atlantic, and East South Central divisions But the total increase in the cropland base in the West North Central, West South Central, and Mountain divisions matched the total decrease in the former divisions. Cropland acreage in the Pacific division had a relatively flat trend during the period. Thus the 1920's following World War I witnessed a decline in cropland acreage in the East and an increase in the West, with the national total remaining practical ly constant. During World War II considerable increases in cropland acreages have occurred only in the Mountain and Pacific Coast groups of States, but these were largely offset by decreases in the South. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.