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Show LAND UNDER CULTIVATION. Department of Agriculture Estimates 829,000,000 Acres Are Not In Use. Washington. Only 27 per cent of the tillable land of the United States is actually under cultivation, according accord-ing to estimates of the Department of Agriculture, based upon reports of 35,-000 35,-000 correspondents. The entire United States, excluding foreign possessions, contains about 1-900,000,000 1-900,000,000 acres. Of this area about GO per cent or 1,140,000,000 acres is estimated to be tillable, that is capable capa-ble of being brought under cultivation by means of the plow. This includes land already under, such cultivation and that which In the future may be brought under cultivation by clearing, drainage, irrigation, etc. 361,000,000 acres or 19 per cent, are estimated to be nontillable but valuable valu-able for pasture or fruits. Only 21 per cent, or 399,000,000 acres, was es-Jmated es-Jmated to be of no use for agriculture present or future. |