S6 INFORMATION RELATING TO AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY IN GENERAL 



UNITED STATES. 



THE RISE IN THE VALUE OF IMPROVED FARM LAND. — T/(e Annalist, Vol. 9, 

 No. 223, New York, 23 April 1917. 



While reclamation has been adding hundreds of thousands of acres 

 to the fertile land of the United States, the value of the land under cultiva- 

 tion, including the improved farm land, has been rising rapidly. Since 1912 

 the value of improved farm land in California has advanced to an average 

 of S200 an acre, an increase of $93. This represents the extreme limit of 

 the advance ; California has superseded Illinois as the State in which 

 improved farm land has the liighest average value. Improved farm land 

 in Illinois now has an average value of §140 and acre, as compared Avith 

 §11 9 in 1 912. The lowest increase in average value is $1 an acre, and 

 this is recorded for South Carolina and for Wyoming. In only three States 

 of the Union has there been a decrease in average value, namely one of 

 Si an acre in Colorado and Montana and one of $2 an acre in Louisiana. 



Other changes are shown in the following table, compiled from fig- 

 ures issued b}^ the Department of Agriculture. 



states 



19 17 



Maine 41 



New Hampshire .... 40 



Vermont 44 



!Massachussets 76 



Rhode Island 85 



Connecticut 62 



New York 72 



Xew Jerse}' 105 



Pensylvania 72 



Delaware 73 



Maryland 65 



Virginia 45 



West Virginia 42.50 



North Carolina 42.50 



vSouth Carolina .... 35 



Georgia 30 



Florida 55 



Ohio 95.50 



Indiana 103 



Illinois 140 



Michigan 70 



Wisconsin 95 



