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acres, land in farms comprise 17,357,549 acres, according to the U. S. Agricultural census of 1935. There were in that year 64,826 individual farms which, with land and buildings, were valued at $448,711,757.

In 1934, 2,831,742 acres of crop land were harvested, while there was crop-failure on 280,426 acres. Idle or fallow crop land amounted to 1,085,286 acres; 723,585 acres were in plowable pasture; woodland pasture took in 2,778,314 acres; other pasture 8,536,677 acres; woodland, not pastured, 571,630 acres, and all other land in farms, 549,889 acres.

In general, eastern Oregon has the most extensive grain lands and the greatest grazing areas, while western Oregon is devoted to diversified farming and fruit growing. The use of agricultural land is steadily increasing. The growth of all land in farms between the years 1930 and 1935 was about 809,000 acres.

According to the U. S. Census of 1930 (the latest figures available) Oregon's population was 953,786. Persons gainfully occupied numbered 409,645. Of these, 81,879 were workers in agriculture, about 2O% of the whole. The total farm population was 223,667. In 1935, according to the U.S. Agricultural Census, Oregon's total farm population had grown to 248,767, an increase of 25,100 or more than ten per cent. In the same year the value of products for all manufacturing industries was $265,437,000, while the estimated gross income from farm production (crops and livestock) was $99,800,000 and the cash income $89,300,000.

Next to agricultural lands in importance to Oregon are the forests. In 1935 (according to figures of the U. S. Forest Service and the U.S. Agricultural Census) of the state's 61,188,489 acres, a total of 28,217,000 acres were covered with forest. Of these forest areas, 19,278,160 acres were covered with saw-timber—trees of more than 12 inches in diameter inside the bark.

The total volume of saw- timber in Oregon in 1934 was 300,793 million feet, board measure. Of this, 137,043 million feet, or 46 per cent, were privately owned; 112,599 million feet, or 37 per cent, were in National Forests; and 51,151 million feet, or 17 per cent, were on other public or Indian lands. Privately owned saw-timber covered 10.756,447 acres; saw-timber in National Forests 5,481,163 acres; and saw-timber on other public and Indian lands 3,040,550 acres.

Of Oregon's 300,793 million feet of saw-timber, 213,114 million feet grew west of the Cascade mountains and consisted mainly of Douglas fir, West Coast hemlock, spruce and cedar; and 87,679 million