The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-08-12
TEXAS VALUABLE FARM LANDS
There Are More Farms, More Farmers,
More Machinery, Better Houses
and Growing Values.

Washington-TeXas farm statlstlcs
as compiled by the census bureau
show an increase Of 204 per cent III
values by the acre since the census
of 1900. They show an increase III
the value of farm buildings of lO0 per
cent. They show an increase OF ~ per
cent in improved acreage. These 1lg'
ures also show that Texas farmers
own machinery and implements TO
the extent of So per cent more than
they owned ten years ago.
The principal rates of increase in
Texas in 1910, as against 1900, among
the items for which percentages. are
given, are: In the total value OF all
farm land alone, l73 per cent; in the
total value of farm land and buildings,
164 per cent; in the total expenditures
for labor, 108 per cent; in the total
expenditures for fertilizers, 81 per
cent; in the total value of all farm
implements and machinery, SO per
cent; in the total improved farm
acreage, 80 per cert; and in the whole
number of farms, 10 per cent.
| The decreases during the decade,
among the items for which percent
ages are given, occurred in the aver
age acres per farm, ~ per cent; and
in the total farm acreage, 10 per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 416,377, as compared with 352,190
in 1900, an increase of 64,187, or Is
per cent.
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as 1882.
$4,000, as against $691, IA, 900 in 1900,
an increase of $1,130,939.OO or 1853
per cent.
The total value of all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as $l,613..
$4,000, as compared with 1891, 551 900
in 1900. gain of $1,021 1862, 900. or 173
per cent.
The total value of all farm build
ings alone was given in 1910 as $2o9..
100000, as against $100, 223, 900 in 1900, |
an increase Of $10S.977 900, or 100 per
cent.
In 1910 the value of the farm land |
alone constituted 80 per cent of the
total value of land and buildings, as
with sc per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm nipple
ments and machinery was $56, 533, 900
in 1910, as against $30,126,0O0 in 1900,
a gain of s26, 407, 900, or SO per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was 109,226,0O0 in 1900. as compared
with 125,SO7,0O0 in 1900, a decrease
Of 16.5S1,O00 acres, or 13 per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 27,12O,O0O
acres, as against 19,576,OOO in 1900, an
Increase of 7,544,O00, or 80 per cent
The improved acreage formed 25
per cent of the total acreage in 1910,
and 16 per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm report
I'd in 1910 were 262, as against 357 in
300, decrease of IS acres, or ~ per
cent in 10 years. This decrease is
caused largely by the subdivision of
many large ranches and by the with
travail from active use of the 10000
100 acres of land to which attention
las already been called.
The average value per acre of farm
and and buildings in 1910 is stated
S $16.69, as against $3.50 in 1900,
Use of $11.19, or 204 per cent.
The average value per acre of farm
and alone in 1910 was reported as
1477, while in 1900 it was $4.7O, the
Of gain being s10.17, or PA
er cent.
OF the whole number, 416,377, of
arms reported in 1910 there were 346,-
IS, or SO per cent, operated by white
arms, and 69,812, or IL per cent, by
egro and other nonwhite farmers, as
with a total of 352,190 in
900, of which 2S6,654, or 81 per cent,
7ere conducted by white farmers, and
1886, or 10 per cent, by negro and
Their nonwhite. The increase in the
lumber of farms of white farmers
uring the decade amounted to 59,911,
nd in the number of farms of negro
nd other nonwhite farmers to 4,276.