No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 1017 



The group of farms containing from 50 to 99 acres each includes 

 a hirger number of farms than any other, but the group containing 

 from 100 to 174 acres comprises more than one-third of the total 

 farm acreage, and the eame proportion of the values of farm property 

 of the State. .. 



With few exceptions, the average values of all forms of farm prop- 

 erty increase with the size of the farms. The farms containing less 

 than three acres are an exception to this rule, in the value of build- 

 ings and in gross income, this class containing most of the florists' 

 establishments of the State, and many city dairies and market gar- 

 dens. The incomes from these industries depend less upon the acre- 

 age of owned or rented land used than upon the capital invested in 

 buildings, implements, and live stock, and the expenditures for labor 

 and fertilizers. 



The average value per acre of the gross income for the various 

 groups of farms classified by area is as follows: Farms under 3 acres, 

 $;i20.66; 3 to 9 acres, |47.21; 10 to 19 acres, |21.70; 20 to 49 acres, 

 $12.33; 50 to 99 acres, |8,9G; 100 to 174 acres, $7.27; 175 to 259 acres, 

 $5.77; 260 to 499 acres, |4.30; 500 to 999 acres, |3.15; and 1,000 acres 

 and over, |1.18. 



Farms Classified by Principal Source of Income. 



Tables 10 and 11 present the leading features of the statis- 

 tics relating to farms classified by principal source of income. 



If the value of the hay and grain raised on any farm exceeds that 

 of anj other crop, and constitutes at least 40 per cent, of the total 

 value of products not fed to live stock, the farm is classified as a 

 ''hay and grain" farm. Similarly, if vegetables are the leading crop, 

 constituting 40 per cent, of the value of products, it is ^'vegetable" 

 farm. ,The farms of the other groups are classified in accordance 

 with the same general principle. ''Miscellaneous" farms are those 

 whose operators do not derive their principal income from any one 

 class of farm products. Farms with no income in 1899 are classified 

 according to the agricultural operations upon other farms in the 

 same locality. 



