Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-07
STATE FARM STATISTICS
Some Interesting Statistics Regard
ing Farm Property in the State of
49,. North Dakota. Il
Remarkable Strides Made by the Agri.
cultural Interests of the State in
a Few Years.
Figures Showing the Great and Grow.
ing Agricultural Prosperity of the
Yet Young State.

Inc agricultural interests CT NOrtn
Dakota are growing with giant strides.
Some very interesting data on this
point is furnished in ensus bulletin
No. 1S4 issued by the director of the
census. of which agriculture in North
Dakota is made the topic. Numerous
elaborate tables, gives a vast amount
Of information in detail in statistical
form and a resume is given by L. G..
Powers. chief statistician for agricul-
ture. Some of the facts deduced from
the statistics are worth careful atten-
tion. The farms in North Dakota in
June, 1901, numbered 1882 and were
valued at $19S, $50. 700. OF this amount
$25, 42S, 430 represents the value of the
buildings and $173.352,27O the value of
the lands, giving a total value of farm
property of $3.50. 266, ISL. ~,
The total value of farm products for
1889 was $64,252. 8 of which $1O,-
211, SIT Or 15.9 per cent represents the
value of animal products and $54,O4O,-
SIT, or S4.1 per cent, the value of
crops.
The statistics show that there were
in the entire territory of Dakota in
1860, 1913 farms with an aggregate of
26,44S acres, of which but 2.115 acres
altogether were improved. In 1870
there were in the territory 1,72O farms
with 302, 1916 acres and 1856 acres i'm
proved. Again in 1880 there were in
the territory 17,435 farms with $780,
656 acres. of which 1,15O,413 acres
were improved.
In 1860 the total value of farm prop
erty in the territory was $151, 1876, of
which $96,445 was in land and i'm
provements, $15,574 in implements
and $39,116 in live stock. In 1870 the
total value of farm property in the
territory was S .OO7, 1929. of which So
OS5,265 was in land and buildings,
$142,612' in implements and $759,952
in live stock. In 1880 there were H.
435 farms, Or N increase to more than
one Thousand per cent of the number
in the territory in 1870. The total
number of acres in farm land was 81
S0O,6 56. also more than one thousand
per cent of the number in 1870. The
number of acres improved increased
to 1,150,413, OF approximately $500
per cent of the acreage in 1870. o..
In 1890 the number of farms in
North Dakota alone was 1851, with a
total acreage of 7,66O.333 of which f.
65S,015 acres were improved.
In 1900 the number of farms in the
state had increased to 1882, with a
total acreage of 15,542,64O, a gain of
64.2 and 1929 per cent respectively.
The total value of farm property in
the state 1890 was $100, 745, 779. an in
crease of 160 per cent, the value of
land and improvements being placed
at $75,310,305, an increase of nearly
400 per cent over the value for 1889
in the entire territory.
Value of improvements was S6.64S,-
$50, an increase of nearly $50 per
cent over the figures for the entire
territory. The value of live stock was
SIS. 7S7,294, an increase of over 1870
per cent. The value of farm products
in 1890 was S21,264,93s, an increase of
over 200 per cent in the amount for
the entire territory in 1880.
The total value of farms in 1900 was
$255,266,751, an increase during the
decade of S154.52O,972, or 1884 per
cent. On this amount $1235.47O.395 or
1919 per cent represents the increase
in the value of farms; 500, G43, 1877, or
1913 per cent. in that of live stock,
and S7,407, $50, or As per cent, that of
implements. The value nf farm pro-
ducts for 1899 exceeds those reported
for 1889 by $40, 7s7. 500, a gain of over
200 per cent.
In nearly one-half of the counties in
tile SUdIe more LldH Twice as many
farms We're reported in 1900 as in 1890,
and substantial gains were made by
nearly all counties. The average size
of the farms is as a rule, smallest for
counties in the northern half Of the
state, and largest for the southern
counties. It ranges from 1881 acres
in Ward county to 61S.9 acres in Stark
county. For the state the average val
ne of farms Glands, improvements and
~buildings) is s4,3S5; in Trail and
Cass counties it is more than $4,000,
but ranges generally from 5000 to
$1,000. 1t may be noted ..ere, how
ever, that values have advanced from
20 to so per cent since the census
statistics were taken.
An increase in live stock is reported
for every county in the state. The
value in many sollnties being three
times as great as 1t was in 1860.
The counties in the eastern end Of
the state, lying In the great wheat re-
~ $780, a41.x * Yp...o,& y-r1.-.gA-.-..