Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-07-27
Figures OF interest Taken from
1915 Census Report.
GREAT GAIN MADE IN STATE
Comparison Is Made With Figures Sc
3 cured Ten Years Aso--Land Val.
ues More Than Doubled--Ris
Gain Made In Live Stock. FL

bcs Moines.-Ine following figures
are taken from the 1915 census report
which has just been issued by the
state executive council. aA
In making report on agricultural
statistics the enumerators were in
structed to return information for all
places Of 10 acres or over. Ten years
ago the enumerators listed all places
OF acres or over as farms. BY reason
OF the change from acres to 10 acres,
as the minimum size of farms, the
census for 1915 shows a decrease in
the number of farms and in the num-
Der OF acres included in farms and an
increase in the number of acres per
farm. This may be wholly due to
the change in the minimum acreage
of farms
Reports were secured from 199,755
farmers operating that number OF
farms, as against 2O9.163 ten years
ago.
The number of acres included in
farms is S2.951,056, decrease of 277,-
GEO from the previous census.
The average size of the farms re-
ported upon increase from 1853 acres
to 164 acres, and the value of each
farm, land alone being considered, in
creased from $7,420.55 to s17,5S2,47.
The average value Of farms and build
ings is found to be $19,9S4.9S as
against sS,S72.7S ten years ago. The
increase in value of farms, buildings
and equipment in the form of imple-
ments and machinery has been even
more pronounced and this now aver
ages s20,2S7.91.
The value of the land and buildings
per acre as reported to the enumera-
tors was SPILLS as against $685. ten
years ago.
The total value of farm land and
the equipment thereof is now report
ed at over $4,000, 100000, which is
more than twice as much as 1t was
ten years before. The major part. OF
this increase has been in the value of
the land alone.
The number who operate their own
land exclusively is 90,797 and those
who operate their own land and also
some that Is rented is 26,951. The to-
tai number Of tenant farmers is ST.
007, as against 70,939 ten years ago
The value OF farm animals and poul-
try in Iowa is $3.50, ,975. This is
1892 100000 more than that reported
ten years ago, an increase OF 60 per
cent.
The value Of farm and garden crops
produced for the year 1915 was $437,-
225,662. This is $190,000,000 more
than the value reported for ten years
before, or an increase of 76 per cent
The value returned for cattle is
greater in the aggregate than tor any
other class of live stock. but the value
of horses, mules and other draft ami
mails is only five million dollars less.
The greatest increase in value OF
the farm crops is in the grain crops,
the value for 1915 being almost dou.
BILE that for ten years before. A de-
crease in value Is reported for pota-
toes, vegetables and fruit. Dairy
products occupy third place as to
value and eggs are fourth in value.
The value of draft animals increas.
ed by over s55,oOO,0OO and is reported
as $135,924.253.
The cattle are now worth $140,978,-
7s1, although the number of animals
reported is less by over one-half mil
lion than ten years ago. The greatest
increase in value, however, has been
in the dairy animals.
A slight increase Is shown in the
number of swine which is now report.
ed at 6,6S3,476. The value of the
swine has increased from s34,464,l53
in 1905 to $57,019,ss7 in 1915. There
has been slight increase in the mum.
Der Of sheep and goats and some in
crease in the value thereof. The val
ne OF the poultry of the state is re-
ported as $13,S00,363 as against S.
0S3,1s4 ten years ago.
The increase in value of all live
stock was about $122,0O0,000.
The value of agricultural products
increased in the ten years by about
$3.50, 100000 and the aggregate for
1915. being the report on the crop
harvested and used In 1914, is $437,.
$225,662. This includes the value OF
wool, dairy products and eggs, but
does not include any portion Of the
live stock sold or marketed or used
during the year.
In the hay and forage crops, the big
value is still in timothy hay, $27,977,-
$50. The alfalfa crop is reported as
worth more than twenty-four times as
much as 1t was in 1904, the value be-
ing returned as $2,607,4S7.
The value of dairy products in.
creased from $S0.6S7.274 to $3s,779,-
$685.
The value Of grain crops practically |
doubled in the ten years, all showing |
increases except barley and buck
wheat. Corn still holds the first place |
with value OF $22S, 6SO,692, and next
In value Is oats and then wheat. The |
most pronounced increase was in the
value of wheat which, in 1915, was re-
ported as more than three times as
much as in the previous ten years.
The report upon the value OF eggs
produced shows total of s20,593,72O |
as against practically one-half that
amount ten years ago.
The value Of silage IL reported as
"a ,30S,9
Farmers Make County Tour.