Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1911-11-03
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Total Value of Mississippi Farm Land
and Buildings $780, s5, 900, an In
crease Of III Per Cent.

crease OF l11 Eef cent
Misunderstanding Census Director
FaIkner has issued the first official state
ment from the census bureau relative to
the agricultural statitstics of the state
of Mississippi collected at the thirteenth
deeennial Unied States census.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 273,S20, as compared with 220,S0S
in 1900, an increase of 53,O17 or "a per
cent.
The total value of farm land and
alone was given in 1910 as $79,5SO,O0O
es5,O0O, as against $15s, GOT 900 in 1900,
an increase of s17s,2 1888 900, or lit per
cent.
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $3.50, 715, 900,
as compared with 900 in 1900, a
gain of $135, 1858 900, or 11s per cent.
The total value of all farm buildings
alone was iven in 1910 as SIS, $50, 900
as against $37, 150,000 in 1900, an in
crease of $40, 100000, or ia per cent.
In 1910 and in 1900 the value of the
farm land alone constituted rs per cent
of the total value of land and buildings.
The reported value Of farm implements
and machinery was SIG, 726, 900 in 1910,
as against 50, 557 900 in 1900, q gain of
$7,169, 900, OF rs per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 1S,419,00O acres, as compared with
~1s,241,000 in 1900, a gain of $4,000
acres or / per cent. This small increase
is due to the fact that a decrease of
over 100000 acres is recorded in the
farm acreage in counties in the south
western part Of the state, where the
boil weevil had made i5s appearance;
also a decrease of the more than $780,
600 acres is recorded in the southeast
ern section of the state where much
woodland reported as in farms in 1900
was not SO reported in 1910.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to s,959,0o0 acres,
as against 1884, 900 in 1900, an in
crease of $1,365, 900, or IS per cent.
The improved acreage formed 40 per
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and AZ
per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1900 exceeded 50 acres, as against
81 in 1910, a decrease Of Is acres, or 10
per cent. This decrease is probably
due largely to the breaking up of farms
and plantations over 100 acres in size
and their operation by tenant families.
Farms over 100 acres decreased 3,160 in
number during the decade, while those
under 100 acres increased 56,177 during
the same period.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$17.93, as against $s.33 in 1909, a rise
of $3.50, or lis per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as $13.61
while in 1900 it was $3.50, the amount
of gain being 1871, or 116 per cent.
Of the whole number, 273,S2O, of
farms reported in 1910 there were 1O9,-
800, or 40 per cent, operated by white
farmers, as compared with a total of
in 1900, Of which 92,124, or 40
per cent, were conducted by white farm
ers, and 1860, or So per cent, by negro
and other non-white. The increase in
the number of farms of white farmers,
the decade amounted to 1896
and in the number of farms of negro
and other non-white farmers to 35,751