The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1911-08-11
NEGROES OPERATE .164,4so
FARMS IN MISSIsSlPPl-lN-
CREASE OF OVER $4,000 IN THE
LAST DECADE.
Special to the Globe.

LAST DECADE.
| Special to the Globe.
Washington, d. c., August 2.-Act-
ing Census Director FallIner issued
today the first official statement from
the Census Bureau relative to the ag-
ricultural statistics of the State of
Mississippi collected at the Thir-
teenth Decennial United States Cen
sus, April Is, 1910.
1t is based on a preliminary COM
parative summary submitted by DR..
LeGrand Powers, Chief Statistician of
the Division of Agriculture in the
Bureau of the Census. The summary
shows, for both the census of 1910
and that of 1900, the reported total
value of farm land, buildings and i'm
plements and machinery; total acre
age, improved acreage average
acres per farm, average value per
acre of farm land and buildings, ave-
rage value of farm land alone, and
the aggregate expenditure for labor
and fertilizers. 1t also distributes the
total number of farms according to
color of farmer, specified character of
tenure, whether held free or mort
gagged by owners, and by certain
acreage groups
Color of Farmers. :.
OF the whole number, 273,S20, of the
farms reported in 1910, there were
109,390, or 40 per cent, operated by
white farmers, and 1874, 490, or 60 per
cent, by Negro and other non-white
farmers, as compared with total of
1903 in 1900, of which 92,124, or AZ
per cent, were conducted by white
farmers, and 1859, or So per cent,
by Negro and other non-white. The
increase in the number of farms of
white farmers, during the decade
amounted to 1926, and in the number
of farms of Negro and other non-white
farmers to 35,751.
Farm Ownership.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the
'all owners" class, was 9l,S56, as COM
pared with S2,O21 in 1900, an increase
of $685..
The total number of farms conduct
ed in 1910 by cash tenants, share ten
ants, including standing renters ana
troopers, and share-cash tenants,
comprising the "all tenants" class,
was 181,172, as against 1882 in
1900, an increase of 43,320.
The total number of farms operated
by managers in 1910 was 1872, as COM
pared with $50 in 1900, a decrease Of
1873.
The total number of farms operated
by the "all owners" class constituted
"a per cent. of the whole number of
farms in 1910, and 81 per cent. in
1900; those operated by the "all ten
ants" class, 66 per cent. in 1910 and
81 per cent. in 1900, and those conduct
ed by managers,0.3 per cent. in 1910
and GA per cent in 1900.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as $479,-
100000 as against $265,151,000 in
1900, an increase of 14,550O00, or 81
per cent
The total value of all arm land
alone was reported in 1910 as $780,
in 1900, gain of S16S, 100000, or "a
$4,000, as compared with 1902 ,014,00O
per cent.
The total value of all farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as $10S,S23,-
000 as against $63 $4,000 in 1900, an
increase of $45,OOO,6S6, or Y per cent
In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted II per cent of the
total value of land and buildings, as
compared with 76 per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm nipple
ments and machinery was S21, 200
600 in 1910, as against SIS, 233, 900 in
1900 a gain of $6,O27,OOO, or 40 per
cent
The total acreage reported in 1910