The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-03-31
I s,o71 600 in 1900, an increase OF s.

1901 600 in 1900, an increase OF s.
SS1 900 acres, or SO per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 1892, 900
acres, as against II, 2S6 900 in 1900, an
increase Of 4,516,OO0 acres, or 40 per
cent.
The improved acreage formed 81
per cent of the total acreage in 1910
and SO per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 336, as against 1862 in 1900,
a decrease Of rs acres, or Z per cent.
The average value per acre Of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
1857, as against $11.54 in 1900, a rise
of $27.13, or 235 per cent.
The average value per acre OF farm
land alone in 1910 was reported at
$34.72, while in 1900 it was 1892, the
amount of gain being $24.S0, or 250
per cent.
OF the whole number, 1854, or
farms reported in 1910 there were "a
5SS, or SO per cent, operated by white
farmers and 2,726, or A per cent, by
negro and other nonwhite farmers, as
compared with a total of 52,622 in
1900, of which 50,S16, or 81 per cent,
were conducted by white farmers, and
1906, or 3 per cent, by negro and
other n%onwhite. The increase in the
number of farms of white farmers
during the decade amounted to 23,772,
and in the number of farms OF negro
and other nonwhite farmers to 920.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the
all owners class, was 57,732, as COM
pared with 40,640 in 1900, an increase
of 1902.
The total number of farms conduct
ed in 1910 by cash tenants, share ten
ants, and cash and share tenants,
comprising the "all tenants class, was
19,157, as against 11,451 in 1900, an
increase of 1905.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 425, as COM
pared with 531 in 1900, a decrease of
LOG.
The total number of farms operated
by the all owners" class constituted
IS per cen of the whole number Of
farms in 1910, and II per cent in 1900;
those operated by the "all tenants"
class 25 per cent in 1910, and % per
cent in 1900; and those conducted by
managers, 0.5 per cent in 1910, and l
per cent in 1900.
OF the total number, 57,732, of farms
operated in 1910 by the "all owners"
class, there were 6,O61, or 81 per cent,
reported as owned free of incum-
brance, and 1871, or 3S per cent,
mortgaged; for 1853 Of those reported
as owned free, however, no report OF
mortgage debt was secured.
In 1900 information was secured
concerning the owned farm homes"
At that time q, 967, or IS per cent,
were reported free from debt and A.
14S, or 80 per cent mortgaged. There
were 1909 in 1900 for which no mort
gage report was secured, these being
included in the farms free from debt.
The Census Bureau has no informa-
ton respecting the number of mort
gagged farms leased to tenants.
The statement relative to farms dis
tributed according to certain acreage
groups shows that those of 10 acres
and under numbered 729 in 1910, and
S07 in 1900, a decrease of IS; of 70
to 40 acres, 1907 in 1910, and 967 in
1900, an increase of 1870; of so to SO
acres, 1878 in 1910, and 2,214 in 1900,
an increase of 1865; of 100 to TIA acres,
2S,263 in 1910, and 1914 in 1900, an
increase of 1919; of ITS to 499 acres,
1896 in 1910, and 23,375 in 1900, an
increase of 1921; of 500 to 999 acres,
1854 in 1910, and 1914 in 1900, a gain
of $50; and of 900 acres and over,
2,166 in 1910. and 2,041 in 1900, an in
crease of 125. Z
OF the whole number Of farms, those
of 10 acres and under formed / per
cent in 1910 and 2 per cent in 1900;
those of 20-49 acres, 1 per cent in
1910 and 2 per cent in 1900; those Of
5000 acres, 3 per cent in 1910 and
4 per cent in 1900; those of 1O0-174
acres, 81 per cent in 1910 and 81 per
cent in 1900; those of 175-499 acres,
43 per cent in 1910, and A per cent
in 1900; those of 5O0-999 acres, IL per
cent in 1910 and 10 per cent in 1900;
and those of 1000 acres and over, 8
per cent in 1910 and 4 per cent in 1900.
The expenditures for labor In 1910
reached the sum of $12,S21 900, as
compared with S., 52S, 900 in 1900, an
increase of 1928, 900, or 1872 per cent.
The expenditures for fertilizers
amounted in 1910 to s11 900, while in
| 1900 it was $4,000, a decrease of ST.
900, or Is per cent.