Texas Almanac, 1939-1940 Page: 171
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AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 171
The map of Texas above is divided according to the crop-reporting districts established by the
Bureau of Business Research, University of Texas. Circles show, by shaded area, percentage of total
area of each district that is crop land. District No. 4, designated as "North Texas Prairies" (Black-
lands and Grand Prairie), has the highest proportion of crop land with 50.9 per cent. District No. 6,
the Trans-Pecos, has the lowest with only six tenths of 1 per cent. Figure for the state, shown by the
circle in the upper lefthand corner, is 21.1 per cent. Cash farm income by districts for years 1938, 1937
and 1936 was as follows, according to the Bureau of Business Research:
Yr.- l 1-N 1 1-S I 2 1 3 1 4 I 5 I 6 I 7 I 8 j 9 I 10 I 40-A
1938 ..... $38,13 $35,191 $47,298 $21,608 $77,127 $31,450 521,693 $31,161 $39,698 $22,2321$12,3181525,767
1937 . . 50,974 54,069 59,150 27,276 104,467 44,172 19,279 46,077 53,758 28,434 15,368 33,504
1936 25,826 34,950 43,437 18,808 100,769 41,164 15,674 33,9251 33,372 19,886 9,422 17,555self to new market opportunities. The
idea did not originate in Texas but it has
made rapid headway in this state, and,
because of its great variety of soil and
climatological conditions, it is ideally
adapted to the farm chemurgic program.
Its adaptability for producing vegetable
oils--cottonseed, tung, castor bean, peril-
la, flax and others-opens a wide market
in the field of materials demanded by
manufacturing industries in increasing
quantities. Its vast resources for produc-
ing cellulose from its cotton and timbersoffer even greater opportunities. The
growing of yams for starch factories or
grain sorghums for the production of fuel
alcohol may aid in solving the problem
of finding markets for Texas surplus of
crop acres.
The future trend will be toward a more
highly industrialized and diversified agri-
culture, more intensively cultivated for
the production of greater quantity and
better quality on smaller area, and more
scientifically planned to meet changing
market demands.
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Texas Almanac, 1939-1940, book, 1939; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth117163/m1/173/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.