Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-03-31

1901 900 in 1900, an increase of g.
SS1, 900 acres, or SO per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 15,8O2,OOO
acres, as against 1926 900 in 1900, an
increase of 4,516,000 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 1886, as against 1862 in 1900,
a decrease Of rs acres, or per cent.
The average value per acre OF farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$38.67, as against $11.54 in 1900, rise
of $27.13, or 235 per cent.
The average value per acre Of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported at
$3472, while in 1900 1t was 1892, the
amount of gain being $24.80, or $50
per cent.
OF the whole number, 1874, OF
farms reported in 1910 there were H.
58S, or So per cent, operated by white
farmers and 2,726, or per cent, by
negro and other nonwhite farmers, as
compared with a total OF b2,622 In
1900, Of which 5O,816, or 81 per cent,
were conducted by white farmers, and
1906, or per cent, by negro and
other nonwhite. 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
1857, 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, decrease OF
100.
The total number Of farms operated
by the "all owners" class constituted
~
farms in 1910, and n per cent In 1900;
those operated by the "all tenants"
class Is per cent in 1910, and ~ per
cent in 1900; and those conducted by
managers, 05 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 36,061, or 81 per cent,
reported as owned free Of incum-
brance, and 21,671, or 3S per cent,
mortgaged; for 1,15S 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 25,967, or IS per cent,
were reported free from debt and A.
14S, or IS 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
SO7 in 1900, decrease of 70; OF x
to 40 acres, 1887 in 1910, and 967 In
1900, an increase of 13U; of so to SO
acres, 1879 in 1910, and 2,214 in 1900
an increase of 1865; of 100 to TIA acres
2S,263 in 1910. and 1914 in 1900, ar
increase of 1919; of IT'S to 499 acres
1896 in 1910, and 23,375 in 1900, an
increase Of 1921; of 500 to 999 acres
1854 in 1910, and 7,074 in 1900, gain
of 2,61O: and of 1000 acres and over
2,166 in 1910, and 2,O41 in 1900, an in
crease of 125.
OF the whole number OF farms, those
of 10 acres and under formed pei
cent in 1910 and per cent in 1900;
those of 2O-49 acres, l per cent in
1910 and per cent in 1900; those OF
5000 acres, 3 per cent in 1910 and
4 per cent in 1900; those Of 100-174
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 500-999 acres, IL pei
cent in 1910 and 10 per cent in 1900;
and those of 1000 acres and over, 8
per cent in 1910 and per cent in 1900.
The expenditures for labor in 1910
reached the sum of $12,S21 900, as
compared with $5,52S,OO0 in 1900, an
increase of 1928 900. or 1872 per cent
The expenditures for fertilizers
amounted in 1910 to $11 900, while in
1900 it was $4,000, a decrease of ST.
900, or Is per cent.
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