The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-03-31
SOUTH DAKOTA
AGRICULTURAL FIGURES

Washington, D. c., March IS
Census Director Durand issued to-
day the first official statement from
the Census bureau relative to the
agricultural statistics of the state of
South Dakota collected at the Thir-
teenth Decennial United States Gen.
sus. April Is last.
1t is based on a preliminary COM
directors by DR.. LIE Grand Powers,
chief statistician of the division of
agriculture in the bureau of the cen-
sus. This summary shows for both
the census of 1910 and that of 1900
the reported total values of farm
land, buildings, and implements and
machinery; total acreage; improved
acreage; average acres per farm;
average value per acre Of farm land
and buildings; average value per acre
Of farm land alone; and the aggre-
gate expenditure for labor and fer
ti!izers. 1t also distributes the to
tai number of farms according to COL
or of farmer, specified character of
tenure, whether held free or mort
gagged by owners, and by certain
acreage groups.
The director gives notice that the
summarys figures are subject to re-
vision later, owing to the fact that
Il number OF farms whose returns
are incomplete will be included in
the final tables. These additions
| will not, in all probability, modify
any of the amounts or rates con-
tanned in the present statement.
The census of agriculture was talk
en- primarily for the purpose of OBJ
tanning an accurate inventory of all
classes of farm property existing on
April is, 1910, complete exhibit
OF farm operations during the year
ended December 81, 1909, and a
statement of the number 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 South Dakota will be is
sued by Director Durand as soon as
the tabulation of this data has been
completed.
1t is pointed out in the statement
today that the principal rates Of in
crease in South Dakota in 1910. as
against 1900, are: In the total val
lie of all farm land alone, 376 per
cent; in the total value of farm
land and building, 356 per cent; in
the average value per acre of farm
land alone, 25O per cent; in the aver
age value per acre of farm land and
buildings, 235 per cent; in the to-
tai value of farm buildings alone.
231 per cent; in the total value of
all farm implements and machinery,
l76 per cent; in the total expendi-
lures for labor, 1872 per cent; in the
whole number of farms, AZ per cent;
i'll the total improved farm acreage.
40 per cent, and in the total farm
acreage, Sc per cent.
The principal decreases during
the decade occurred in the total ex-
penditures for furtilizers, Is per
cent, and in the average acres per
farm, per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in
1910 was 1874, as compared with
52,622 in 1900, an increase of "a
692, or AZ per cent.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as ST.
0o3.451,O00, as against $22O,133,-
COO in 1900, an increase of $780,
SIS, 900, or 356 per cent.
| The total value of all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as $9O1,-
$4,000, as compared with $780,
100000 in 1900, a gain of SILL
927, 900, or 376 per cent.
| The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as $780,
$4,000. as against s3O,926,OO0 in
1900. an increase of s71.s91. 900, or
231 per cent.
In 1910 the value of the farm
land alone constituted 80 per cent
OF the total value of land and build
ings. as compared with Sc per cent
in 1900.