The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-11-11
American Farmers.
- al N.n 80. BalIs.in.


100000 farms ID The United
States and Territories. Each farm
supports d family made up Of 5 or
10 persons. fe sav FIVE after
the suggestion of humorous and
able writer Of this city, who put
FIVE as the normal family figure,
comprising pa, ma, bub, sis and
the baby 7; but, besides these
aboriginal constituents Of family,
there may be ono or ten more
children there may often and
must sometimes be d mother-in-
law there is often hired man, or
house girl, or both one farm in
five has grandmother on it, and
some are blessed with two grand
parents. These with other at
taches swell the average family
number until eight to a farm is
about a fair allowance, although
it often happens that twenty or
more white people make their en-
tire subsistence from one farm of
Tess than 200 acres. But, allowing
eight to each farm household, it
would appear that FL $50, 900 peo-
pie get their subsistence from
Providence at first hands, owing
il alone to that source and their
own industry.
The average size of farms is l53
acres. Of farms of thousand
acres or more each there were
only 1920; between five hundred
and a thousand acres there were
1873; the farms over one hum
dred and under five hundred acres
numbered sos, 900
OF farms between fifty and one
hundred acres there were 754, 900,
but those between twenty and
fifty acres were still more nu-
merOus, counting up nearly 848,
600. There were 394,607 farms
between ten and twenty acres Id.
size, and about 10000 under ten
acres, large nurseries, large gar
dens, etc, employing the labor ol
At least one man for the entire
year being classed as farms, while
mere appendant gardens. lawns.
lots and sauce-patches were not
taken into the account at an.
The total average of farms was
407. .735.OAl, Of which 1s8, ,921 900
was improved and 218, ,8l3, 900 un-
improved, being about 53 per cent.
Of the latter. In some States the
percentage is much greater. The
average size Of farms i'd eighteen
States and Territories falls short
Of 1853 acres, the average for the
whole.
The total value of farms was
IS, ,262, ,803, ,661, aud the total value
of farming implements and ma
chinery was S336,S7S.429. Home
manufactures Of 1870, made On
farms, were valued Ut S23 ,423. 600 /;
forest products at $36, ,89S, 900 !;
fruits at S47,335,000; and the
wages paid during the year, In
cluding the value Of board, S3l0,
286, 900,
These produced in that year
298, 600, 900 bushels Of wheat, III
600, 900 bushels OF rye, T6l, ,O00, 900
of corn, 282, 600, 900 Of oats, nearly
30,000000 Of barley, and 9,S21 600
bushels oi the raw material for
buckwheat cakes and slap-iacks.
On the farms there were I, ,l42,
$40 horses, 23,900,000 neat cattle.
while the number of horses not Oh
farms was / 1,547, 900, and the NUM-
Der of cattle ], ,2T4 900.
Besides Che grain, etc, above
given, the lands of the United
States produced 3.011 1896 bales of
cotton, of 400 pounds each, 81
$4,000 pounds of dax (of which
lT,S90,624 pounds were produced
il Ohio alonel, 1916 tons of
hemp. III which Kentucky pro-
duced 7777 tous, j little silk 1887
poundsl, and loo, l02, ,8S7 pounds
81 wool, making i tOtaI Of CTS, 1913
tons OF textile materiais
The farmers moved and cured
Nrs IN Il nfsn "a