Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-04-15
878 MILLIONS OF
ACRES IN FARMS
IN AMERICA
Agricultural Census Bulletins
Now in Preparation viii
Show Forty Billion Dollars
Worth Of Farm Property.

Especial Correspondence 20 Ifcrald.l
washington. D g.. Apri ! i2---An
advance census bulletin on agricu
tnre In the United States is IN press.
Il Is q summary OF the thirteenth
census statistics regarding the mum
Der OF farms. total land area, acreage
OF all farm laAd and OF improved farm
land, and values OF all farm property
and the separate classes which have
been issued for the separate states
and each county thereof In the form
OF state bulletins.
II gives the principal data pertain
ing 70 farms and farm property. by
states and geographic divisions, for
1910 and 1900. and by geographic d.
Visions. but not BY states from 1850
10 1910. z 49,
II was prepared under the. suparvf
sion OF l1tSrand Powers chief stats
ticiaa. and John Lee Coalter, expert
special agent for agriculture, Bureau
Of the Census, Department Of Com
nleree and Labor.
There are Ia the uplted States
U56t5U2 fdrhiB cohlalnlng a togal Of
S7S.79S000 acres, OF which SIS, 452. 900
sores are Improved. The iand In farms
represents somewhat less than one
half, ace per cent. Of the total land
area Of the country. while the im-
proved land represents somewhat
over one-half 5i.f per cont Of the
total acreage Of land IN farms JIM.
proved land thus represents alniosr
exactly one-fourth OF the total land
area OF the country. The average size
q a farm b 1851 acres, Of which. on
the average, 75.2 acres are improved.
Enormous fetal Value.
The total value OF farm property
reaches the enormous sum OF S4O.-
9si,OoO,000, OF which over two-thirds
represents the value Of land about
onc-sixth the value OF buildings, ana
ahout another ono-sixth the combined
value OF implements and machinery
and 81 live stock The average value
OF all farm property reporting is s6,
go. The average value OF all fnrm
property per acre OF land In FARMS
y 1864. and The average value OF
land Itself per acre. s3240
Il II a significant fact that where.
as tbs total population increased n
per cent since 1900 the urban pop.
uiati0n Increased a4.S per cent and
the rural population only i12 per
cent The number and acreage OF
farms Increased much less rapidly
than the total population. but more
nearly kept pace with the rural pop.
ulation movement The number OF
farms Increased 100 per cent while
rural population increased ii.2 per
cent. The total farm acreage in
creased only as pof cent This. how.
4aI 1nn -
crease IN acreage OF improved farm
land, which amounted to 1874 per cent,
showing a greater percentage OF 10.
crease than the number Of farms OF
rural population but still falling ap-
parentiy behind the lacrease IN total
population. Il should be noted that
rural population Is muck broader
or term than agricultural p0puln.
tlon.' "Raral" AZ here used Includes
the entire population outside of IN
corpOrnted places Tor New England
"towns') having $500 or more inhabi.
tnnts
increase IN improved Acreage.
The average size of farm de-
creased from 1862 acres Ia 1900 10
1881 acres la 1910, but the averBge
acroage az improved land per farm
"NfAfaN|
Year than ID the earlier Il Is possible
thai the reported increase IN the Pro-
posiiou Of land improved. from AGA
per cent b 1900 to B44 IN 1910 IL
partly due 10 differences OF interpre-
tatlon aa 20 what constitutes improv-
cd land,
The total value OF farm property a
little more than doubled during the
decade 1900 20 1870 The greater part
Of this extraordinary increase has
been Ia farm land, the value OF which
increased no less than 1871 per cent,
and Girls IN turn was largely due IA
the advance In che price of land, the
average value per acre being more
ban twice as high IN 1910 as Ia 1900
R.f0 as compared with si5.5f. There
nav however, been remarkable in
Feaea, also. Ga the value of farm
pniaRes and equipment, The value
or buildings having increased 17t
Per cen> that of implements and ma
enlnefy N.1 per cent and that 81 iiFe
STOCK bOl per cent The increase IN
tle value oi bulldlnga and Ol inn
Elements nnl mnnhlnopv Ia aua if