The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
Census Bureau Gives out Interesting
Information Of Them.
How Much Kentucky Has and What
the Value Of Her Lands is
Estimated at
VALUES IN OTHER STATES

Washington, July 23--The census
bureau has issued a bulletin giving
the condition OF agriculture in the
United States for 1900. IL shows
there was at that time 5,139, G51 farms
in the entire country, which were
valued at slG.674.G94, 247 OF this
amount e., $50, 1876, 49,, or over 81
per cent, represented the value Of
buildings, and Sl4, ia, 492, 01G, or
over rs per cent represented the value
OF lands and improvements other than
buildings. The yaluo Of farm nipple.
ments and machinery was S761, 261,
$50, and Of live stock sb,o7s, $3.50, 04i.
Those values, added to the value of
the farms, gives q total value Of farm
property amounting to $40, i,O01,.
s3s ... Iu. u.
The total value of farm products
for the year 1899 is given at o., 730,
lls,752, Of which amount il,71s,-
800, 221 was for animal products in
Guiding live stock, poultry and bee
products.
The bulletin places the average size
OF farms in the United States at 146
acres and it is stated that 80 per cent
Of the farm land is improved The
total acreage for the entire country
was s4l, 201, Sac.
The number of farms in the United
States has increased in every decad
for the last so years, and 80 rapidly
that in 1900 there were nearly four
times as many farms a. in 1850, ana
20 per cent more than in 1890. The
total acreage Of farm land also has in
creased, but up to 1880 less rapidly
than the number Of farms, thus in
volving a steady decrease in the aver
age size of farms. Since 1880, how
ever, the total acreage has increased
more rapidly than the number OF
farms, so that 1.-THE average size Of
farms has increased. The total area
of improved land has increased in
every decade since 1850.
A comparison by states indicates
that the most important states in the
agriculture OF the country are, begin
ming at the west, Missouri, Iowa IL
linois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New York. Together they con
tribute "A per cent of the total value
of farm property and So per cent of
the total value Of farm products.
Texas leads with the greatest mum
Der of farms, 352, 9Oi, and also with !
the highest acreage 1875, s07,0l7 But
only little over Is per cent of the
farm land in Texas was improved, and
the value of the farm land in Texas
WAS less than in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New York, Missouri, Iowa or Illinois,
being s962, 47G,273. Missouri ranks
second in the number OF farms, hay
ing 2s4,ss Other states having |
more than zoo, 00e farms are:
Alabama, 229, SEQ, Georgia 1924, 69i, !
Illinois 264,15l, Indiana 22l 1897, |
Iowa 2as, 622, Kentucky 2s 1867, Mich
igsn eos, 26l, Mississippi 220, s0S, New
York 226, 100, North Carolina 29l,-
6s7, Ohio 276,7i9, Pennsylvania 22i,-
2is, Tennessee 224.623.
Iowa leads the list in the percent
age of improved lands, more than Sc
per cent of the farm lands OF that
state being improved. Illinois follows
with more than 81 per cent. Ohio |
comes next with rs per cent, and is
followed by Indiana with more than
n per cent. Illinois occupies the first
position in the matter Of the total
value of farm lands, the figure for
that state being s2,004, 316,S97. |
Other states values are as follows,
Indiana t97s,sl6,47l, Kentucky
s47l, O45, $50, Michigan 5000, 1856, s74,
Ohio sl,9is,ss3, SAC, Pennsylvania
81, o5l, 6s9,l 1875, Tennessee sS4l, a0s,-
os5, Texas s96s,476,s7s. Virginia