Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-03-24
ISSUED BY The CENSUS DE-
PARTMENT AT WASHING
TON, D. C., TODAY.
Number of Farms Reported in 1910 Was
30,741 and Total Value of Lands and
Buildings Amounted to Nearly $245,-
900, 000-Total Acreage Reported Is
5,269,000 Acres.

Census Director Durand has issued the
first official statement from the census
bureau relative to the agricultural sta
tistics of the state of Idaho collected
at the Thirteenth Decennial United
States census April Is last.
The census of agriculture was taken
primarily for the purpose of obtaining
an accurate inventory of all classes OF
farm property existing on April 10,
1910; a complete exhibit of farm oper
ations during the year ended December
81, 1909; and statement, of the mum
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 animals
of Idaho will be issued by Director
Durand as soon as the tabulation of this
data has been completed.
Increase and Decrease.
il is pointed out in this statement
that the principal rates of increase in
Idaho i'll 1910, as against 1900, are: In
the total value of all farm land alone,
518 per cent; in the total value of
farm land and buildings, AIS per cent
IN the average value per acre of farm
Jand alone, 276 per cent; in the total
value of farm buildings alone, 267 PEI
cent; in the average value per acre of
farm land and buildings, PSI per cent;
in the total value of all farm nipple
ments and machinery, PIT per cent; in
the total expenditures for labor, 1877 pei
cent; in the total improved farm acre
age, 90 per cent; in the whole number
of farms, 76 per cent; in the total farm
acreage, 81 per cent; and in the tota
expenditures for fertilizers, "a per cent
The only decrease during the decade
occurred in the average acres per farm
z per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1916
was 30,741, as compared with II All in
1900, an increase of 1920, or 76 per
cent.
Farm Values.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as $244,
100000, as against $42 ,318,O00 in 1900,
an increase of $202, 1O2 ,000 or AIS per
cent.
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $219, 346 ,O00 as
compared with $35, 486, 900 in 1900, a
gain of 1888, 900, or 518 per cent.
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as 25,O74 900,
as against $6,S32 900 in 1900, an in
crease of 15,242 900, or 267 per cent.
In 1910 the value of the farm land
alone constituted 80 per cent of the
total value of land and buildings, as
compared with "a per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm imple-
ments and machinery was $10,459, 900
an 1910, as against $3,295,OcO in 1900,
"a gain of $7,164,000, or PIT per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was $4,000 acres, as compared with
, 100000 in 1900 an increase of 2,O64,-
900 acres, or Ga per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 2,773 900 acres,
as against $4,000 in 1900, an increase
of 100000 acres, or SO per cent.
The improved acreage formed IS per
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and
A per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
IN 1910 was III, as against 1873 in 1900,
a decrease of ~ acres, or per cent
The average value per acre of farm
land and buildings in 1910 is stated as
$46.39, as against 1920 in 1900, rise
of $33.19, or 251 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
land alone in 1910 was reported as
$41.63, while in 1900 it was SHOT, the
amount of gain being $3O,56, or 276 per
cent.
Farm Ownership.
The total number of farms operated
in 1910 by owners, part owners, and
owners and tenants, comprising the call
owners class, was 27,111, as compared
with 1885 in 1900, an increase of
1896.