Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1901-03-30
PROGRESS OF SOUTH
IN LAST DECADE
Most Noteworthy of Any In
Nineteenth Century.
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES

Agricultural Advancement and Gains
In Population and Material Re-
sources Demonstrated In Figures by
Agricultural Statistician.
BALTIMORE, March 90. ''For the
southern portion of the United States
the last decade was in some respects the
most noteworthy of any in the nine
teenth century. Its progress in popula-
ton and material resources. when COM
pared with the corresponding advance
of the other states and territories, mer-
its special consideration. F."
These statements are Introductory to
an elaborate presentation of figures and
facts showing the agricultural progress
of the south prepared for The Manufac-
turers' Record by Mr.. L. G.. PQwers,
chief statistician in charge of agaicult-
ure for the twelfth census. He shows
that in the past ten years, while nearly
80 per cent of the increased population
in northern states was ill cities, viii
lagos and hamlets. in the ii southern
states the movement of population was
OF an opposite character. The gain in
rural population in the south was Is per
cent of the total increase there, the rela-
tive addition to this agricultural popu-
latlon being more than twice that in
the north and west
Total Number Of Farms.
The estimate of the total number of
farms in the country is something
slightly i'll excess of 300, 600, of which
nearly. if not quite, 2, 400, 900 are in the
14 southern states, and the relative gain
in number IS greater i'll the south than
that in the remainder of the country
1.-The marked increase in the rural
population of the south, talzen in con-
nectlon with the fact of the increased
use of impEoved farm machinery, makes
1t certain that there has been an unpre-
cedented gain i'll the acres of land under
cultivation, and hence of socalled inn
proved lands in the south. The in
crease in the number of farms as shown
by the reported farm schedules and the
increase in rural population makes it
certain that the increase in the last de-
cade in improved land is greater than
III either of the two preceding decades. "
Southern Farm Resources.
Mr.. Powers presents several tables as
a basis for his study, and i'll conclusion
ventures the prediction that the south
in 1900 will show, as IN other decades, a
percentage of gain in all farm values,
with the exception of that of live stock,
greater than for the nation as a whole
He says:
"With the opening up of new lands,
the subdivision of old plantations into
smaller holdings and the consequent APP
probation of farm values, it becomes
evident that the southern farm re-
sources have increased in the last 10
years with a percentage greater even
than IN the decade from 1870 to 1880,
and that the census figures, when pub
lished, will show for the year 1900 to-
tai exceeding $4, 800, 900, 900. This total
may possibly closely approximate $5,-
600, 100000
Counterfeit Silver Certificates.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Chief Viii.
kie of the secret service has announced
that a new and improved issue of the
counterfeit SIS silver certificates, series
of 1899, portrait of the Indian chief
Onepapa, discovered on Oct. %, 1900,
has appeared IN circulation. The check
nlate letter and number B20 TO A32