The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-05-12
oKLAHoMA's AGRICULTURAL STA
TISTIcS.
First Preliminary Comparative State
ment of General Farm Data.

Washington, D. c., May 11.-Census
Director Durand issued today the first
official statement from the census bu-
reau relative to the agricultural sta
tistics of the state of Oklahoma col
lected at the thirteenth decennial Unit
ed States census April Is, 1910.
1t is based on preliminary compare
tive summary submitted to the direc-
tor by DR.. LeGrand Powers, chief sta
tistician of the division of agriculture
in the bureau of the census. This sum-
mary shows, for both the census of
1910 and that of 1900, the reported
total value of farm land, buildings, and
implements and machinery; total acre
age; improved acreage; average acres
per farm: average value per acre 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 mortgaged by owners; and
by certain acreage groups.
Attention is called TO the fact that
the figures are subject to revision
later. as number of farms whose re-
turns 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
Iprimarily for the purpose of obtaining
an accurate inventory of all classes of
farm property existing on April 10,
1910, a complete exhibit of farm opera
tions during the year ended December
81, 1909, and statement of the num-
Der and value of domestic animals in
cities and villages on April Is, 1910.
Statements relative to acreage and
yield of crops and the domestic ami
mails of Oklahoma will be issued by
Director Durand as soon as the tabu-
lation of this data has been completed.
For the purpose of comparison the
figures of 1900 for Indian Territory
have been included with those of Ok
lahoma
The Rates of Increase and Decrease.
! 1t is pointed out in the statement
today that the principal rates of in
crease in Oklahoma in 1910, as against
1900, among the items for which per-
centages are given in the first section
of the summary, are: In the total
value of all farm land alone, 333 per
cent; in the total value of farm land
and buildings, 331 per cent; in the
BIT per cent; in the average value per
acre of farm land alone, 247 per cent;
in the average value per acre of farm
land and buildings, 245 per cent; in
the total expenditures for labor, 166
per cent; in the total value of all farm
implements and machinery, 157 per
cent in the total value of all farm i'm
plements and machinery, 157 per cent;
in the total improved farm acreage,
104 per cent; in the whole number of
farms, IS per cent; and in the total
farm average, 25 per cent.
The only decrease during the de-
cade, among the items for which per-
centages are given, occurred in the av
erage acres per farm, 20 per cent. n
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 1S9,43S, as compared with 1OS,-
900 in 1900, an increase of 81 ,43S, or
I IS per cent
Farm Values.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as 1885,
473, 900. as against $170, $4,000 in 1900,
an increase of $685., ,6SS 900, or 331 per
cent
The total value of all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as $647,-
17S,000, as compared with $149,39S,0OO
in 1900, a gain of $497, 100000, or 3S3
per cent.
/ Ihe total value or all farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as SIS. .295 900,
as against $21, ,4O7, 900 in 1900, an in
crease of $67, 7,SSS,OOO, or 317 per cent.
In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted SO per cent of the
total value of land and buildings, as
compared with 81 per cent in 1900
The reported value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was $27 7003,O
! in 1910, as against $40, 900 in 1900,
gain of $16,491 900, or 157 per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 2S,717000 acres, as compared with
% 2.9SS,0O in 1900, a gain of 5,729,OOO
acres, or 25 per cent.
mi.