The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-03-30
SOUTH DAK0TA'S
FARM STATISTICS
First Preliminary Comparative State
ment of Farm Data Issued by
the Census Bureau.
$1,000 FARMS OPERATED IN STATE
Summary Shows the Total Value of
Farm Land, Buildings and Ma
chinery by Census of 1910.

A dispatch from Washington under
date of Monday says that Census Di-
rector Durand issued that day the first
official statement from the Census
Bureau relative to the agricultural sta
I~tistics of the state of South Dakota
collected at the Thirteenth DeCennial
United States Census, April - last.
1t is based on a preliminary com
parative summary submitted to the
Director by DR.. lie Grand Powers,
chief statistician Of the Division of
Agriculture in the Bureau of the Cen
sus. This summary shows for both
the census of 1910 and that of 1900 the
reported total value of farm land,
buildings, and implements and ma
Chinery; total acreage; improved acre
age; average acres per farm; average
value per acre of farm land and build
lngs; average value per acre Of farm
land alone, and the aggregate eXpen-
diture for labor and fertilizers. 1t
also distributes the total number of
farms according to color Of farmer,
specified character of tenure, whether
held free or mortgaged by owners,
nd by certain acreage groups.
The Director gives notice that the
summary's figures are subject to re,
vision later owing to the fact that a
number of farms whose returns are
incomplete will be included in the final
tables. These additions will not, in
all probability, modify any of the
present statement.
The census of agriculture w S taken
primarily for the purpose of obtain.
ing an accurate inventory of all class
es Of farm property existing on April
10, 1910 a complete exhibit of farm
operations during the year ended De.
cember 81, 1909; and a statement OF
the number and value tf domestic an.
imals in cities and villages on April
5, 1910.
1t is pointed out in the statement
to day that the princip | rates of in
crease in South Dakota in 1910, as
against 1900, are: In the total value
of all farm land alone, $40 per cent;
in the total value Of farm land and
buildings, 1856 per cent; in the ayer-
age value per acre of farm land alone,
$50 per cent; in the average value per
acre of farm land and buildings. 235
per cent, in the total value of farm
buildings alone. 2@1 per cent. in the
total value OF all farm implements and
machinery, 17G per cent; in the total
expenditures for labor, 1872 per cent;
II the whole number of farms, ~ per
cent. in the total improved farm acre
age, 40 per cent, and in the total farm
creage, 3G per cent.
The principal decreases during the
decade occurred in the total expen-
ditures for fertilizers, u per cent. and
in the average acres per farm, : per
cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number Of farms reported in 1910
was 1871, as compared With 52,G22 in
1900, an increase of 1862 or Al per
cent.
The total value Of farm land aud
buildings was given in 1910 as $1,000,
451 900, as against 1920, 1873, goo in 1900
an increase of $685. 900, or 356 per
cent.
Total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as 1901, 900,
compared with $3.50, POI 600 in 1900, a
gain of $711,9 ? 900. or 367 per cent.
The total value OF farm buildings