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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



Off, Doc. 



TABLE 2. — Values of Specified Classes of Farm Property, and of 

 Farm Troducts: 1850 to 1900. 



*For year preceding that designated. 

 fValues for 1870 were reported in depreciated currency, 

 they must be diminished one-fifth. 

 Jlncludes betterments and additions to live stock. 



To reduce to specie basis of other years 



Though the total value of farm property was twice as great in 1900 

 as in 1850, a decrease of 1.1 per cent, is shown for the last decade. 

 This decrease is due to a loss of 2.6 per cent, in the value of land, im- 

 provements, and buildings, as the value of implements and machinery 

 increased 30.4 per cent, and that of live stock, 0.8 per cent. The 

 value of farm products for 1899 exceeds that for 1889 by 71.3 per cent, 

 but a part of this increase, and of that in the value of implements 

 and m.achinery, is doubtless due to a more detailed enumeration in 

 1900 than heretofore. 



Countv Statistics. 



Table 3 gives a statement of general agricultural statistics by 

 counties. 



