Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-29
VALUE OF CUR FARMS
AGRICULTURAL THRIFT SHOWN
BY CENSUS BULLETIN.
Total Property Values Exceed $2O,-
OOO,OOO,O0O = Earth Products for
1899 Reach 81, 739, i Is, 75l-Iliinois
Leads in worth of Titled Lands.

The census bureau has issued bulle-
| tin giving the condition Of agriculture IN
the United States for thu year 1900. Ii
shows that there were at that time 5,Io9,-
| 657 farms in the entire country, which
were valued at SIC, GA. 694 PAT. OF this
amount $3.50, 19S, 191, or over p per
cent, represented the value of buildings
and S13. 1I4. 49,, O56. or over IS per cent,
represented the value of lands and inn
proyerlents other than buildings.
The value of farm implements and ma
chinery was S761, 261, $50 and of live
stock $3078, 050,041.
These values. added to the value of the
farms, give total value of farm proper
| ty amounting to So. DOL ,s3S.
| The total value of farm products for
the year 1899 is given at S4.739, lis, 1852,
of which amount Sits 800, 221 was for
animal products, including live stock,
poultry and bee products.
The bulletin places the average size OF
farms In the United States at 146 acres
and it is reported that 40 per cent OF the
farm land is improved. The total acre
age for the entire country was 81, 201, :
SAG.
Inc NUMBER OF IdrmS III the OHlleU
States has increased in every decade for
the last fifty years, and so rapidly tat
in 1900 there were nearly forr times az
many farms as in 1850 and % per cent
more than in 1890.
The total acreage Of farm land also has
increased, but up to 1880 less rapidly
than the number Of farms, thus inyoly-
ing steady decrease in the average size
of farms.
Since 1880, however, the total acreage
has increased more rapidly than the num-
Der Of farms, so that the average size Of
farms has increased. The total area of
improved land has increased in every dec
ade since 1850.
A comparison by States indicates that
the most important States in the agricul-
ture of the country are, beginning at the
West, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York. To-
getber they contribute "A per cent of the
total value of farm property and 3S per
cent of the total value of farm products.
Texas leads with the greatest number
of farms, 352, 100, and also with the high
est acreage, 125, S07,017. But only lit
tie over ID 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 $962, 476, 273.
Missouri ranks second in the number of
farms, having 2S4, S86. Other States
having more than 100000 farms are:
Alabama, Do, 300; Georgia, 224,691: Illi-
nois, 264 ISL; Indiana. 221, S97: Iowa,
DDS, 1922; Kentucky, 231 ,667; Michigan,
203. 261; Mississippi, 220,S03: New York,
226, 100; North Carolina, 224, 637; Ohio,
276, 719; Pennsylvania, 224, 24S; Tennes-
see, 224,6 23.
Iowa leads the list in the percentage of
improved lands, more than Sc per cent of
the farm lands of that State being inn
proved. Illinois follows with more than
81 per cent; Ohio comes next with 7S per
cent and is followed by Indiana with
more than "a per cent.
Illinois occupies the first position in the
matter of the total value of farm lands,
the figures for that State being $2,004,-
316,S97. Other State values are as fol-
lows: Iowa, 81, S34, 345. 546; California,
$796, 527 1856; Indiana. 1913, 616,4 All; Kan
sas, 1864, 100, $50: Kentucky, SAT- 045,-
$50; Michigan, 5000, 800, 1874; Minnesota,
$7SS, 6S4, 642; Missouri. $1.033, III, s97;
Nebraska, STAT ,950,057; New York.
81, 069, 723, S95; Ohio, $1,19S923, GAG;
Pennsylvania, 81 ,051 ,629.173; Tennessee,
$341, 202, 025; Texas, 1862, 476,273; Vir-
GINA. $323,515,9T7; Wisconsin, $751;
712,319.
The live stock farm lands of the coun-
try are put down at a value of 1906
2S4, 213, or more than SO per cent of the
whole; the hay and grain lands at $6,3T9,-
54S.543, or 81 per cent of the whole;
dairy produce, over s per cent; cotton,
over . per cent. There are SO coffee
farms in the country, valued at 1892,
915.