The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-03-31

| cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
S3s,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 as
S34.72, while in 1900 it was S9.92, the
amount of gain being S24.sO, or 25O
per cent.
COLOR OF FARMERS.
OF the whole number, 77,3l4, of
farms reported in 1910 there were
| 74,5ss, or 90 per cent, operated by
white farmers and 2, ,726, or 4 per cent,
by negro and other nonwhite farmers,
as compared with total of 52,622 in
1900, of which 50,S16, or 81 per cent,
were conducted by white farmers,
and 1,S06, or 3 per cent, by negro and
other nonwhite. The increase in the
number of farms of white farmers
during the decade amounted to %, 3,772
and in the number of farms of negro
and other nonwhite farmers to 920.
FARM OWNERSHIP.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the
"all owners" class, was 81, 732 as COM
pared, with 40, $40 in 1900, an increase
of IL, ,092.
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 10, 157, as against 11,451 in 1900,
and increase of 7,706.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 425, as COM
pared with 531 in 1900, decrease of LOG.
The total number of farms operated
by the "all owners" class constituted
75 per cent 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; anG those conducted by
managers, 0.5 per cent in 1910, and
1.per cent in 1900.
OF the total number, 81 1872, of farms
operated in 1910 by the "all owners"
class, there were 36,061, or 50 percent,
reported as owned free OF fincunbrance
and 21 ,67l, 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 65 per cent,
were reported free from debt and
14,14S, or 35 per cept, mOrtgaged.
There were 500 in 1900 for which no
mortgage report was secured, these
being included in the farms free from
debt. The Census Bureau has no in
formation respecting the number of
mortgaged farms leased to tenants.
DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO ACREAGE
| GROUPS.
The statement relative to farm dis
tributed according to certain acreage
groups shows that those of 10 acres
and under numbered 729 in 1910, and
S07 in 1900, decrease of 7S; Of 20 to
40 acres, 1887 in 1910, and 967 in 1900,
an increase of 130; of 30 to 90 acres,
2,379 in 1910, and 2.214 in 1900. an in
crease of 165; of 100 to 174 acres,
%, 1858 in 1910, and 1914 in
1900, an increase of 1919; of 175 to
499 acres, 80 1896 in 1910, and %, 375 in
1900, an increase of 1921; OF 500 to
900 acres, 1854 in 1910, and 7,074 in
1900, gain of 2,610; and of i 200 acres
and over, 2,166 in 1910, and! 2,041 in
1900. an increase of 1875.
ACREAGE GROUP PROPORTIONS.
OF the whole pumber of farms, those
Of 10 acres and under formed pei
cent in 1910 and 2 per cent in 1900;
those of 2o-49 acres, per cent in 1910
and per cent in 1900; those of 50-9s
acres, per cent in 1910 and pei
cent in 1900; those OF 1O0,174 acres
81 per cent in 1910 and 81 per cent in
1900; those of 175-499 acres acres Al
per cent in 1910 and A per cent in
1900; those of 500-999 acres, IL. pc,
cent in 1910 and 13 per cent in 1900
and those of 1000 acres and over,
per cent in 1910 and per cent in 1900
The expenditures for labor in 1915
reached the sum of $12, ,S21 600, al
compared with S5,52S, 900 in 1900, ar
increase of s7,2a3,QOo in 1910, or 1a.
per cent.
The expenditures for fertilizer:
amounted in 1910 to S1l, 900, while in
1900 it was $13. 900, a decrease of 5000
or Is per cent.
SUMMARY FOR THE STATE.
The preliminary comparative sum
mary follows:
} ALL FARMS BY ACREAGE VALUE OF
LAND, BUILDINGS IMPLEMENTS, ETC