Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-11-03
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Total Value of Mississippi Farm Land
and Buildings $3So,295, eco, an In
crease Of III Per Cent.

Washington.-Acting Census Director
Falkner has issued the first official state.
ment from the census bureau relative to
the agricultural statistics of the state
OF Mississippi collected at the thirteenth
decennial Uned States census.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 213,s2o, as compared with 2a0,so3
i'll 1900, an increase of 53,017 or 81 per
cent.
The total value of farm land and
alone was given in 1910 as $40 $4,000
295,00o, as against 1852, ,007 900 in 1900,
an increase of $17s,2SS,0oo, or III per
ean+
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $3.50, 600,
as compared with $114,s57 900 in 1900, a
gain of $135,S5S, 900, or lis per cent.
The total value of all farm buildings
alone was iven in 1910 as SIS, 9,5s0,00o
as against $37, 100000 in 1900, an in
crease of $42, 1000, or ia per cent.
In 1910 and in 1900 the value of the
farm land alone constituted 76 per cent
of the total value of land and buildings.
The reported value of farm implements
and machinery was S16,726,00O in 1910,
as against 50, ,557 ,o00 IN 1900, gain of
$7,169,O 600, or rs per cent
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 1S,419,000 acres, as compared with
1924, 900 in 1900, gain of 17s,o0o
acres or 1 per cent. This small increase
is due to the fact that decrease of
over 100000 acres is recorded in the
farm acreage in counties in the south
western part OF the state, where the
boil wcevil had made ia appearance;
also Il decrease of the more than 500
600 acres is recorded in the southeast
crn section of the state where mrch
woodland reported as in farms in 1900
was not SO reported in 1910.
TIE improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to s,959,00o acres
as against 1884 900 in 1890, an in
crease cf 81 ,365, eco, or Is per cent.
The improved acreage formed 40 per
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and AZ
per cent in 1qnn
The average acres per farm reported
in 1900 exceeded SO acres, as against
81 in 1910, a decrease CT is acres, or 19
per cent. This decrease is probably
due largely to the breaking up of farms
and plantations over 100 acres in size
and their operation by tenant families.
Farms over 1GO acres decreased 3,160 in
number during the decade, while those
under 100 acres increased 5G,177 during
the same period.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$17.93, as against $s.33 in 1909, a rise
Of $3.50, or 115 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 WAS reported rs $13.Sl
while in 1900 it was $500, the Nr,owit
of gain being $7.31, or 116 per cent.
OF the whole number, 273,s20, of
farms reported in 1910 there were 1oo,-
200, or 40 per cent, operated by white
farmers, as compared with a total OF
220.sO3 in 1900, Of which 92,124, or AZ
per cent, were conducted by white farm
ers, and 1873, ,670, or IS per cent, by negro
and other non-white The increase in
the number of farms Of white farmers,
during the decade amounted to 1896
and in the number of farms of negro
and other non-white farmers to 35,751