The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-04-20
CENSUS BUREAU
ISSUES DATA
ENORMOUS INCREASE FARM VALUES
Farm Lands and Buildings Increased 243
per cent Eight per Cent Decrease
in Average Acres per Farm.

Census Director Durand has issued |
the first official statement from the |
Census Bureau relative to the agricul- |
tural statistics of the state of Oregon !
collected at the Thirteenth Decennial
United States Census, April Is, 1910.
1t is based on preliminary compar-
ative summary submitted to the Direc-
tor by DR.. lie Grand Powers, Chief |
Statistician of the Division of Argicul- |
ture in the Bureau of the Census. This
summary shows, for both the census of |
1910 and that of 1900, the reported |
total value of farm land, buildings, |
and implements and machinery; total
acreage; improved acreage; average
acres per farm: average value per acre
of farm land and buildings; average
value per acre of farm land alone; and |
the aggregate expenditures for labor
and fertilizers. 1t also attributed the |
total number of farms according to
color of farmer; specified character of |
tenure; whether held free or mort |
gagged by owner; and by certain acre
age groups.
The Director gives notice that the
summary's figures are subject to
revision later, owing to the fact that |
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
amounts or rates contained in the |
present statement.
The census of agriculture was taken
primarily for the purpose of obtaining
an accurate inventory of all classes of
farm property existing on April Is,
1910; a complete exhibit Of farm oper-
ations during the year ended December
81, 1909 and a statement of the num-
Der and value of domestic animals in
cities and villages on April Is, 1910.
Statements relative to acreage and
vie d of crops and the domestic ami
mails Of Oregon will be issued by
Director Durand as soon as the tabu-
lation of this data has been completed.
1t is pointed out in the statement
that the principal rates of increase in
Oregon in 1910 as against 1900 are: In
the total value of all farm land alone,
262 per cent; in the total value of farm
land and buildings, 243 per cent in the
average value per acre of farm land
alone, 2l4 per cent; in the average
value per acre of farm land and build
ings, 1877 per cent in the total expend-
itures for fertilizers, 1873 per cent; in
the total value of farm buildings alone,
l27 per cent; in the total expenditures
for labor. l27 per cent; in the total
value of all farm implements and
machinery, 102 per cent; in the total
improved farm acreage, 2S per cent:
in the whole number of farms, 26 per
cent and in the total farm acreage, Is
per cent.
The only decrease during the decade
among the items for which per cents
are given in the first section of the
summary, occurred in the average acres
per farm, namely, per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was As, 1923 as compaed with 35, 837 in
1900, an increase of 1921, or 26 per
cent.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as $453,
57l 900, as against $l32, 1873. 900 in 1900,
an increase of 1921, 233, 900, or 243 per
cent.
The total value of all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as $409, 949,
900 as compared with $ll3, 1873, 900 in
1900, a gain of $26, 81, 900, or 262 per
cent.
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as SAB, ,622, 900,
as against $19, 200, 900 in 1900, an in
crease of $24, 422, 900, or 127 per cent.
In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted 80 per cent of the
total value of farm land and buildings,
as compared with 85 per cent in 1900.
The reported value of all farm i'm
plements and machinery was Sl3, 1885,
600 in 1910, as against Sc, 5O7, 900 in
1900, gain of $6,628, 900, or 1O2 per
cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was II ,628, 900 acres, as compared with
1901 900 in 1900, an increase of l,557,-
900 acres, or Is per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to A, 253, 900 acres,
as against 3,328,00O in 1900, an in
crease of 925, 900 acres, or 28 per cent.
The improved acreage formed 81 per
cent of the total acreage in 1900, and
80 per cent in 1910.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 258, as against 281 in 1900,
a decrease of % acres, or 8 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$39 Oh, as against $l3.4 in 1900, rise
of $25.87, or 1877 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
$35. 26, while in 1900 it was $l1, ,23. the
amount of gain being $24.O3, or 2l4 per
cent.
Of the whole number, as, 1913, of
farms reported in 1910 there were A.
51l, or SO per cent, operated by white
farmers and GIT, or / per cent, by
negro and other nonwhite farmers, as
compared with total of 35, 837 in 1900,
of which 35, 1856, or SO per cent, were
conducted by white farmers and 55l,
or per cent, by negro and other non
white. The increase in the number of
farms of white farmers during the
decade amounted to 1925 and in the
number of farms of negro and other
nonwhite farmers to sc.
The total number Of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the
all OWDSIo GldooJ dilONllCo W o'pfOVI
as compared with 28,963 in 1900, an in
crease of 8,493.
The total number of farms conducted
in 1910 by cash tenants, share tenants,
and cash and share tenats, comprising
the "all tenants" class, was Is, 837, as
against 6,366 in 1900, an increase of
All.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 1886, as com
pared with 508 in 1900, an increase Of
327.
The total number of farms operated
by the call owners" class constituted
83 per cent of the whole number of
farms in 1910, and 81 per cent in 1900;
those operated by the "all tenants"
class, Is per cent in 1910 and l8 per
cent in 1900; and those conducted by
managers, 2 per cent in 1910 and per