Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-11-02
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
Total Value of Mississippi Farm Land
and Buildings $3.50, 295, 900, an In
crease of III Per Cent.

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Washington Acting Census Director
Falkner has issued the first official state
ment from the census bureau relative to
the agricultural statistics 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,S2O, as compared with 220,So3
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,OOo
g95, 900, as against $4,000 900 in 1900,
an increase of $17s,28S,OOo, or III per
cent.
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $250,71b,ooo,
as compared with STA, 1857, 900 in 1900, a
gain of $135, 1855, 900, or 11s per cent.
The total value of all farm buildings
alone was iven in 1910 as $79,5So,OOo
as against $37, 10000 in 1900, an in
crease Of $42,43O,OOO, 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 $16,726,OOo in 1910,
as against $9,557 900 In 1900, a gain OF
$7,169, 900, or rs per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 18,419, 900 acres, as compared with
1s,241,OoO in 1900, a gain of $4,000
acres or 1 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 it's appearance
also a decrease of the more than 300,
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 ~8,959,00o acres
as against 7,594,OOO in 1900, an in
e of 1885, 900, or is per cent.
The improved acreage formed 40 pei
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and Al
per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1900 exceeded SO acres, as agains'
CT in 1910, a decrease of Is acres, or Il
per cent. This decrease is probabl.
due largely to the breaking up Of farm
and plantations over 100 acres in siz
and their operation by tenant families
Farms over 100 acres decreased $3.50 il
number during the decade, while thos
under 100 acres increased 56,177 durinI
the same period.
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated a
$17.93, as against 1888 in 1909, a ris
of $3.50, or lis per cent.
The average value per acre OF tarT
land alone in 1910 was reported as $13.6
while in 1900 it was $500, the amour
of gain being $7.31, or 116 per cent.
Of the whole number, 273,820, Q
farms reported in 1910 there were 109
800, or 40 per cent, operated by whit
farmers, as compared with a total c
esO,sO3 in 1900, of which 92,124, or A
r per cent, were conducted by white farm
ers, and 12S,679, or 58 per cent, by negr
and other non-white. The increase i
the number of farms of white farmer
9 during the decade amounted to 1926
and in the number of farms of negr
6 and other non-white farmers to 1915