The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-02-10
FEVER ARE
EARn LANDS
IN DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA Now Than Ten
Years Ago as Shown
by Census.
BUSINESS CENTER
AS Well as Residential Area
is Being Greatly
Extended.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Fec. 10
The rapldity with which the nation
al capital is extending lis business
and residential area. snd the con
tinual withdrawal from farm opera
lions of outlying land, in the Dis
trict of Columbia are manifest in
the first Official statment from the
Census Bureau relative to the agri-
cultural statistics Of the District Of
Columbia collected at the Thirteenth
DecenniaI United States Census,
April 10, 1910. which was issued to-
day by Census director iDurand.
1t is based on preliminary COM
parative summary submitted to the
director by DR.. LeGrand Powers,
chief statistician OF the division of
agriculture in the Bureau of the
Census. This summary shows, for
both the census of 1910 and that Of
1900, the repoTtSd. >total value OF
farm land, buildings, Implements
and machinery; total acreage, i'm
proved acreage, and the aggregate
expenditures for labor and fertll!-
zers.
The director gives notice that the
suummary's figures are subject TO
revision later, owing to the fact that
l number Of farms whose returns
ire Incomplete will be included in.
he final tables. These additions
Sill not, in all probability, modify
any of the amounts or rates con-
aimed in the present statement.
The census OF agriculture was
aiken primarily for the purpose o..
obtaining an accurate inventory OF
Ill classes OF farm property existing
m April Is, 1910; a complete ex-
libIt of farm operations during the.
ear ended December 81, 1908; and
statement of the number and value
u domestic animals in cities and VI
ages on April 10, 1910.
Statements relative to the acreage
md yield OF crops and the domestic
n!mals of the District of Columbia
will be issued Wy Director Durand as
loon as to tabulation of this data
las been completed.
Farm Acreage and Values.
The statement shows that the
uumber~of farms reported in 1910
vas 914, as compared with 269 in
900.
The total farm acreage reported in
1910 was 5000 acres, as compared
with 5000 in 1900.
The improved acreage was re-
urned in 1910 as amounting to o.
300 acres. as against 5000 in 1900.
The improved acreaged formed SO
1er cent of the total acreage in 1910
md IS per cent in 1903.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as So
100000, as against SG1,274,OOO in
900.
The total value of all farm land
llone was reported in 1910 as So
100000, as compared with $4,000
300 in 1900.
The total value OF farm buildings
llone was given in 1910 as $685.
300, as against s1,574.OOO in 1900.
In 1910 the value of the farm iaad
:lOne constituted 81 per cent of the
otsl value of land and buildings, as
'ompared with Sc per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm nipple
nents and machinery was $62, 900
1910. as against $4,000 in
1900.
Or the whole number, 214. Of
arms reported in 1910 there we're
2O2, or .94 per cent. operated by
white farmers and 10. or 6 per cent.
~ coiored farmers, 81 compared
nth p total Of 26s farms in 1900, Of
which 252, of "a per cent. were con-
lueted by white farmers and Il, or
s per cent, BY, eoiored farmers