AGRICULTURAL BULLETIN* 



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returns was the "farm home" occupied by its owner. The same class 

 of information was secured by the population schedules of the Twelfth 

 Census (1900). The agricultural schedules of the Thirteenth Census 

 (1910) secured practically the same information, except that the basis 

 was "owned farms" instead of "owned farm homes" — a difference in- 

 volving, however, no appreciable incomparability. 



The next table relates to farms operated by persons owning all or 

 part of the land, and shows for 1910 (1) the number of such farms re- 

 ported as free from mortgage; (2) the number reported as mortgaged; 

 and (3) the number for which no mortgage reports were secured. Com- 

 parable items are included for 1900 and 1890. 



Owned Farms* 



Owned Farm 

 Homes 



Class 



1910 



1900 



Owned Farm 

 Homest 



1890 



Total 



Free from mortgage 



-Mortgaged 



Unknown 



133,003 



146,754 , 144, t 



63,234 



68,045 



1,724 



48.2 

 51.8 



67,616 

 76,389 

 2,749 



47.0 

 53.0 



67,587 

 77,111 



46.7 

 53.3 



"Includes all farms owned in whole or in part by the operator. 



"The 1.370 "owned farm homes" for which no reports were secured were distributed 

 between "free from mortgage" and "mortgaged" in 1890. 



t Per cent of combined total of "free from mortgage" and "mortgaged." 



In 1910 the total number of farms owned in whole or in part by their 

 operators was 133,003. Of this number, 63,234 were reported as free from 

 mortgage; 68,045 were reported as mortgaged; and for 1,724 no report 

 relative to mortgage indebtedness was obtained. The number of mort- 

 gaged farms constituted 51.8 per cent of the total number of owned farms, 

 exclusive of those for which no mortgage report was obtained. The per- 

 centage is only slightly smaller than it was in 1900 and 1890. It may be 

 noted that the percentages given for the three censuses are comparable, 

 but that the number of mortgaged and unmortgaged farms reported in 

 1890 is not entirely comparable with the numbers reported at the latter 

 censuses because at the census of 1890 the farms for which no reports 

 were secured were distributed between the classes of mortgaged and un- 

 mortgaged farms. It can be seen, however, that from 1890 to 1910' the 

 number mortgaged decreased much more than the number free of mort- 

 gage. 



The statement of mortgage debt and of the value of mortgaged farm 

 property is restricted to the farms of those farmers who own all of the 

 their land and report the amount as well as the fact of indebtedness. 

 Of the 68,045 farms reported as mortgaged, 52,174 are wholly owned 



