Smyrna times., 1931-06-17
s21 POI 1863 FROM STATE FARMS
More Than Half This Amount from
General and Poultry Farms

The Bureau of the Census is
compiling and issuing statistics on
farms by types. These statistics
are included in the third series of
bulletins on agriculture now being
issued by the Bureau of the Cen
sus. Separate bulletins are being
issued for the States and the farms
are classified under the following
types: Self-suf1cing, truck, fruit,
cash-grain, cotton crop-sepcialty
general dairy, poultry, stock-ranch,
animal speciality, abnormal, and
unclassified. The abnormal type is
subdivided into five subtypes: In
stitution or country estate; part
time; boarding and lodging; forest
product; and horse farm, feed lot,
or livestock dealer. Source of in
come, that is, the value of products
from a particular source in rela-
ton to the value of products from
all sources is the primary basis
used in classifying the farm by
type, Source" relates to the pro-
duct or products from which the
income is derived; resulting from
the sale of a single product in GER
tain cases, and from the sale of
group of products in other cases.
With the exception of the self-suf
f1cing general, and certain of the
abnormal farms, the income from
the particular source had to rep
resent 40 per cent or more of the
total income of the farm before it
could be classified. For the self
sufficing and certain of the alb
normal farms the percentage had
to be so per cent or more, and for
the general farm less than 40 per
cent. The first State report issued
is for Delaware. All of the vari-
Gus types of farms, except cotton
farms and stock ranches, appear in
the Delaware tabulations. OF the
total of 9,707 farms in the State
slightly more than so per cent of
them are of two types, general
farms and poultry farms, there be-
ing 1850 of the former and 1897
of the latter type. None of the
other types comprises as much as
10 per cent of the total. Of the
$50 abnormal farms approximately
81 per cent of them are part-time
farms, that is, farms where the
operator reported an occupation
other than farmer, or spent $50
days or more off the farm, and
with a value of products of less
than $3.50. From the viewpoint of
value of property, the institution
farms and county estates are most
These two classes of
farms, numbering only 45. or less
than one-half of one per cent of
all the farms in the State, had a
value of land and buildings of ST.
O78, ,483, or just little more than
10 per cent of the $66, ,941, TAT rep
resenting the total value for all
farms. Only three types of farms,
the general, dairy, and poultry
farms, exceeded them in total
value, they having a value of land
and buildings of S18,399,814, So
260, 1902, and S8,O78,113, respective
y. The gross agricultural income
for Delaware in 1929 is shown by
The census data as S21, POI 1863. |
About 54 per cent of this repre-
;ented returns from the general
and poultry farms. On per farm
basis the returns for each type /
we're as follows: General, S2,122;
S2,247; crop-specialty,
s2,948; fruit, S4,O68; truck, S1,773;
larry, S3,811; animal-specialty, S4,-
,73; poultry, s2,602; self-suf1cing,
1854; and abnormal, $685. Sim
larly, information is given in the
Delaware report for specified /
classes of live stock by type of
arm and specified items by two
ypes of farms; type of farm by
'ize, by value of products, and by
g G.