Description: Map showing the distribution of Milch Cows in the United States in 1880. "Between 1870 and 1880 the number of cows increased nearly 50 per cent. The greatest increases were in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. By 1880 nearly all of the States had recovered from the Civil War depression in number of cows. The westward movement had reached the semi-arid Great Plains."—United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook 1922, 1923
Source: , United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook 1922 (Washington D.C., Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923) 299
Map Credit: The Private Collection of Roy Winkelman |
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