The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-31

ments and machinery was S33,762,-
200 in 1910, as against $12.219,OOG
in 1900, gain of $21,543,00O, on
176 per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1919
was 25,952,0Oo acres. as compared
with 1901, 900 i'm 1900, an Increase
Of 6,SS1,00O acres, or SO. per cent
The improved acreage was return
ed in 1910 as amounting to 1902
600 acres, as against 11,286,OOO In
1900, an increase of 4,5lG,OO3
acres, or 40 per cent.
The improved acreage formed 6r
per cent of the total acreage in 1910
and So per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm report
ed in 1910 was 1856, az against 36s
in 1900, a decrease of 26 acres, or
T per cent.
The average value per acre OF
farm land and buildings in 1910 is
stated as S3S.67, as against $I1.54
i'll 1900. rise of $27.13, or 235 per
cent
The average value per acre OF
farm land alone in 1910 was report
ed as $34.72, while in 1900 it was
1922, the amount Of gain being
s24.S0, or $50 per cent.
OF the whole number 77,314, OF
farms reported in 1910 there were
1883, or 90 per cent, operated by
white farmers and 2,726, or per
cent, by negro and other non-white
farmers, as compared with total
of 52,622 in 1900, of which $685.
or 81 per cent, were conducted by
white farmers, and 1,S0G, or per
cent, by negro and other non-white-
The increase in the number of farms
of white. farmers during the decade
amounted to 22,772, and in the
number of farms of negro and other
non-white farmers to $50. ...
The total number of farms operaI~
ed in 1910 by women, part owners
and owners and tenants, comprising
the "all owners" class, was 51,732
as compared with 4O,640 in 1900, an
increase of 1902
The total number of farms con-
Quoted in 1910 by cash tenants, share
tenants and cash and share tenants
comprising the "all tenants class,
was 1918 as against l1,451 In
1900, an increase of 7,7O6.
The total number of farms operR...
ed by managers in 1910 was 425. az
compared with 53l in 1900. a de-
crease of 1O6.
The total number of farms operar-
ed by the call owners class con-
stituted rs per cent of the whole
number of farms in 1910, and IT per
cent in 1900; those operated by the
all owners class, rs per cent in
1910, and 20 per cent in 1900; and
those conducted by managers, 0.5
per cent in 1910, and / per cent in
1900.
OF the total number, 57,732, OF
farms operated in 1910 by the "all
owners" class, there were 36,O61, or
81 per cent, reported as owned free
of incumbrance, and 21,671, or 3S
per cent, mortgaged; for 1,158 of
those reported as owned free, how
ever, no report of mortgage debt
was secured.
In 1900 information was secured
concerning the "owned farm homes"
At that time 25.967, or IS per cent,
were reported free from debt and
IA, las, or IS per cent, mortgaged.
There were 1,609 in 1900 for which
no mortgage report was secured,
these being included in the farms
free from debt. The census bureau
has no information respecting the
number of mortgaged farms leased to
tenants
The statement relative to farms
distributed according to certain acre
age groups shows that those of ~
acres and under numbered 729 in
1910, and 8O7 in 1900, a decrease
OF Is; of 20 to AZ acres, 1,O97 in
1910, and 967 in 1900, an increase
of 100; of SO to SO acres, 2,379 in
1910, and 2,214 in 1900, an in
crease of 165: of 100 to 174 acres,
2S,263 in 1910, and 16, 144 in 1900,
an increase of 12,1l9; of ITS to
499 acres, 32,99e in 1910, and 49,
375 in 1900, an increase of 1921; of
500 to 500 acres, 1854 in 1910, and
1914 in 1900, gain of 2,61O; and
OF 1000 acres and over, 2,166 in,
1910, and 2,041 in 1900, an increase
of 1876.
/. On the whole number of farms,
those of 10 acres and under formed
per cent lin 1910 and 2 per cent