The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-12-23
FIGURES ARE GIVEN OUT BY ri.
RECTOR OF CENSUS.
Value of Buildings Is 1870 Per Cent
Advance; Number Put at 1885,
759 as Compared With 1869
in 1900; Appraised Land and
Structures at $1,25s,51o,ooo; In
terestins Statistics.
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Washington, ID. c., December 10.
Census Director Durand issued to-
day the first official statement from
the census bureau relative TO the
agricultural statistics of the state of
Minnesota collected at the Thir-
teenth Decennial United States CEN
sus, April Is last.
1t is based on preliminary
comparative summary, submitted to
the director by DR.. lie Grand Pow
ers, chief statistician of the division
of agriculture in the bureau of the
census. This summary shows, for
both the census of 1910 and of 1900,
the reported total values of farm
land, buildings, implements, and ma
chinery, total acreage, improved
acreage, average acres per farm, av-
erage value per acre of farm land
and buildings, average value per acre
of farm land alone, and the aggre-
gate expenditures for labor and fer
tilizers. 1t also distributes the total
number of farms according to color
of farmer, specified character of ten
ure, whether held free or mortgaged
by owners, and by certain acreage
groups.
Figures May Be Revised.
The director gives notice that the
summary's figures are subject to re-
vision later, owing to the fact that
number of farms, whose returns
are incomplete, will be included in
the final tables. These additions
will not, in all probability, materially
modify any of the amounts or rates
contained in the present statement.
The census of agriculture was
taken primarily for the purpose of
obtaining an accurate inventory of
all classes of farm property existing
on April Is, 1910; a complete ex-
hibit of farm operations during the
year ended December 81, 1909; and
a statement of the number and value
of domestic animals in cities and
villages on April Is, 1910
Statements relative to the acre
and yield of crops and the domestic
animals of Minnesota will be issued
by Director Durand as soon as the
tabulation of this data has been COM
pleted.
Increase and Decrease.
1t is pointed out in the statement
today that the principal rates of in
crease in Minnesota in 1910, as
against 1900, are: In the total value
OF farm buildings alone, 120 per cent:
in the total value of farm land and
buildings, SO per cent; iii the total
value of farm land alone, 80 per
cent; i'll the average value per acre
of farm land and buildings, II per
cent; Ill the average value per acre
of farm land alone, rs per cent; in
the total value of farm implements
and machinery, "a per cent; in the
total expenditures for labor, 33 per
cent; in the number of farms OPP
Grated by the 'all tenants class, 80
per cent; in the total acreage, per
cent; in the total number of farms
operated by managers, 10 per cent
in the improved acreage, per cent:
III the average acres per farm, per
cent; and in the total number of
farms, OF per cent.
Rates of Decrease.
The principal rates of decrease
during the decade occurred in the
total expenditures for fertilizers, rs
per cent; in the total number of
farms, operated by colored farmers,
20 per cent; and in the total number
OF farms operated by the "all own
ers' class, per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in
1910 was 155,759, as compared with
154,659 in 1900, an increase of LOO.
or OF per cent
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given i'm 1910 as ST.
259,51O,O0O, as against $669,522,00O in
1900, an increase of $3.50, 1888, 900, or
SO per cent.
The total value of farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $1,OI6.SS9.-
900. as compared with S559.3O 600
in 1900, a gain of $457,5S7, 900, or
so per cent.
Value of Farm Buildings.
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as $242,621.-
900, as against $11O,22O,O0O in 1900.
an increase of 1892. 900, or 12O
per cent.
In 1910 the value of farm land
alone constituted 81 per cent of the
total value of land and buildings, as
compared with "a per cent in 1900
The reported value of farm i'm
plements and machinery was s52-
$4,000 in 1910. aa against s3O,O9D.-