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gage debts only Wisconsin and Missouri exceeded 

 Michigan. The average interest rate for farm mort- 

 gages was six per cent. The average mortgage debt 

 to a farm was $2,147. 



The vahio of all farm property in Michigan was 

 reported at $1,703,334,740, of which land alone rep- 

 resented $959,186,538, and the buildings $477,499,- 

 672. The implements and machinery were rated at 

 $122,389,927 and the live-stock at $204,258,603. The 

 value of all farm property for a farm worked out at 

 $8,976, in which item the State ranked thirteenth. 

 In value of all farm property Michigan ranked four- 

 teenth, of land alone sixteenth, of buildings seventh, 

 of implements and machinery fourteenth, of live- 

 stock sixteenth." 



The total farm expenditures for labor were given 

 as $31,944,861 for the year 1919, the State ranking 

 eighteenth under this head. Out of this total, 

 $24,875,549 were paid in cash, the balance going 

 imder the heading of rent and board. The reported 

 expenditures for fertilizers were $4,887,253, and 

 $22,104,883 for feed. 



The number of foreign-born white farmers in 

 Michigan in 1920 was 48,264, of which 2,034 were 

 born in Austria; 13,393 in Canada; 1,142 in Den- 

 mark; 2,203 in England; 3,947 in Finland; 264 

 in France; 9,745 in Germany; 3,280 in Holland; 

 933 in Hungary; 819 in Ireland; 298 in Italy; 654 

 in Norway; 2,479 in Poland; 1,538 in Eussia; 436 

 in Scotland; 3,088 in Sweden; and 371 in Switzer- 

 land. 



