The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-07-30
yZTGEN BILLION
DOLLARS IN FARMS.
~ VET THE FARMER MILLI0NAIRES
ARE EXTREMELY FEW.
.,. If Farms in the United States
,.,,lv Six Million. Cotton Lands
scent of Total Valuation.

oonsns bureau has issued bull
,..;r giving the condition OF agrlcult-
= the United States for the year
,ooO Itshows that there were at that
20 657 farms in the entire coun-
nnich were valued at sl6,674,694
~ of tbis amount SO, $50, 1913, l9l, or
% o, 81 per cent, represented the value
wi ', bindings, and sl3, ia, 492, O56, or
" q ner cent, represented the value
II lands and improvements other than
buildings. :,
The value of farm implements and
.ohirorv was $761, 26l, $50, and of live
srock So O78,O5O,O4l. These values add
~ ~ the value of the farms give to-
toI vaIue of farm property amounting
to s2O,5l4OOl,83S.
The total value of farm products for
,ho wear 1899 is gwen at 81, 1879, 11S, 1852.
- which amount 81, 718, 990,221 was for
animal products, including live stock,
poultry and bee products
The bulletin places the average size
- farms in the United States at 146
oorps and it is stated that 40 per cent
~ the farm land is improved. The to-
tai acreage for the entire country was
Sal ,3Ol, SAG.
The number of farms in the United
States has increased in every decade
FIR the last so years, and so rapidly
& that in 1900 there were nearly four
times as many farms as in 1850. and 70
mar cent more than in 1890. The total
acreage of farm land also has i1creas-
ed, but up to 1880 less rapidly than the
number of farms, thus involving a
steady decrease in the average size OF
farms. Since 1880, however, the total
acreage has increased more rapidly
than the number of farms, so that the
average size of farms has increased.
The total area of improved land has
increased in every decade since 1850.
THE MOST IMPORTANT STATES.
A comparison by states indicates
that the most important states in the
agriculture of the country are, begin
ming at the west, Missouri, Iowa, Hi
nOis, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
North Carolina. Together they con-
& tribue II per cent of the total value of
farm property and 80 per- cent of the
total value of farm products. Texas
leads with the greatest number of
farms, 3j2 100, and also with the high
est acreage, l25, 807, OF. But only lit
tie over Is per cent of the farm land in
n Texas was improved, and the value of
q farm land in Texas was less than in
q Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Mis-
souri,, Iowa or Illinois, being 1862, 49,
zl3. Missouri ranks second in the
number of farms, having 2S4,SS6. 9th
er states having more than 2O0,O
farms are: Alabama, 223, 800; Georgia,
254,69l; Illinois, 265, l5l; Indiana, 22l,-
w; Iowa. 228,622; Kentucky, 22l ,661;
Michigan, 203, POI; Mississippi, 220, 8O3:
New York, 226, 720; North Carolina,
Z24,G37; Ohio, 276, 7l9; Pennsylvania.
ZA24S; Tennessee, pa, 623. Iowa
leads the list 10 the percentage of i'm
proved farm lands, more than Sc per
cent Of the farm lands of that state be-
ing improved. Illinois follows with
4 more than 81 per cent; Ohio comes
next with IS per cent, and is followed
oy Indiana, with more than II per
cent Illinois occupies the first posi-
'Ioh IN the matter of the total value OF
farm lands, the figures for that state
being $1,000, 3I6,897 Other state val
ues are:
tennessee, $341, 202, C25: Texas, 1862
''o'Z13; Virginia, 1923, 515,977.
The live stock farm lands of the
COuntry are put down at value of 81
,273, or more than SO per cent of
i'e whole; the hay and grain lands at
54S,543, or 81 per cent of the
whole; dairy products over s per cent;
'oVton over 5 per cent. There are OH
.OHee farms in the country, valued at
N,932,0l5.