The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-31

cent; in the total improved farm acre
age, per cent; in the average acres
per farm, per cent, and in the total
farm acreage, 2 per cent.
The principal decrease during the
decade occurred in the whole number
OF farms, amounting to per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported In 1910
was 276,0S1, as compared with 1884,,
$50 in 1900, a decrease OF $685. or 8
per cent
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as $1,710,-
505,O00, as against $84o,s79,000 in
1900, an Increase of 1886, $685. 900, or
1903 per cent.
The total value OF farm lands alone
was reported in 1910 as s1,441, b29, 900,
as compared with $695,47l, 900 in 1900,
a gain of s74e,p5s,ooo, or 1o7 per cent
Value Of Buildings.
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as s26S, &c.,
900, as against $148,50S, 900 in 1900, an
increase of s12o,46s, 600, or 81 per
cent.
In 1910 the value Of the farm land
alone constituted 81 per cent OF the
total value of land and buildings. az
compared with 50 per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was $50.769,000
in 1910, as against s2S,60S, 900 in 1900.
gain OF s22,166,0O0, or Is per cent.
The total acreage reported In 1910
was 34,516,000 acres, as compared
with 33,99S, 900 in 1900, an increase OF
$4,000 acres, or 2 per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 24,528,000
acres. as against 22,90OO0O in 1900, an
increase Of 1,e2s,ooo acres, or Z per
cent.
The improved acreage formed Il
per cent of the total acreage in 1910,
as compared with 81 per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm report
ed in 1910 was 125, as against 119 in
1900, gain Of acres, or five per
cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated
as $49.56 as against $24.S2 in 1900, a
rise of s24.74 or 100 per cent.
The average value per acre OF farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
$41.76, while in 1900 it was $2O.4G
the amount of gain being s21.Os or 104
per cent.
Farms Total 276, o3t.
OF the whole number, 276,JS1, Of
farms reported in 1910, there were
2T2,435, or 80 per cent, operated by
white farmers and 3646 or / per cent
by colored farmers, as compared with
a total of 2S4,SS6 in 1900, of which
279,933 or 9S per cent, were conduct
ed by white farmers and 1853, or
per cent. by colored. The decrease in
the number of white farmers during
the decade amounting to 749S, and in
the number of farms OF colored farm
ers to 1907.
He tUl6i NUMBER OF farms Operaleo
in 1910 by owners, part owners and
owners and tenants, comprising the
..all owners class, was 1871, $685. as
compared with 196,15S in 1900. a de,
crease of 1896.
The total number OF farms conduct
ed In 1910 by cash tenants, share ten.
ants and cash and share tenants, com.
prising the Fall tenants" class, was
1888, as against S6,S97 N 1900, de
crease Of 1864.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 1885, as com
pared with 1881 in 1900, a decrease
of l54.
The total number of farms operated
by the "all owners class constituted
SO per cent of the whole number O.
farms in both 1910 and 1900; thos.
operated. by the all tenants class
80 per cent in both 1910 and 1900
and those conducted by managers,
per cent in both decades.
Distribution Of Acreaue