Table 1. Farms, Land in Farms, and Land Use: 1982 and 1978-Con. 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 



'Data are based on a sample of farms; see text. 



Table 2. Irrigation: 1982 and 1978 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see introductory text] 



Farms with irrigation 



Delaware 



New Castle 



Farms number. 1982.. 



1978.. 

 Land in irrigated farms acres. 1982.. 



1978.. 



Harvested cropland farms. 1982.. 



1978.. 

 acres, 1982.. 

 1978- 

 Other cropland, excluding cropland 



pastured farms. 1982.. 



1978- 



acres, 1982.. 



1978.. 



Pastureland, excluding woodland pastured ...farms, 1982— 



1978.. 



acres, 1982.. 



1978- 



Irngated land acres, 1982. 



1978.. 



Harvested cropland _ farms, 1982.. 



1978.. 



acres, 1982— 



1978- 



Pastureland and other land farms. 1982.. 



acres, 1982.. 

 1978- 



1 982 pnncipal source of irrigation water (see 

 text): 



Wells on farm farms.. 



acres irrigated. . 



Wells as only source farms— 



acres irrigated.. 



On-farm surface supply farms.. 



acres irrigated __ 



On-farm surface supply as only source farms.. 



acres irrigated.. 



Off-farm water suppliers farms— 



acres irrigated.. 



Off-farm water suppliers as only source farms.. 



acres irngated. _ 



323 



255 



175 518 



138 440 



320 



254 



140 247 



106 632 



41 

 70 



2 123 



3 636 



51 



49 



3 074 



3 155 



44 168 



33 725 



318 



252 



44 014 



33 429 



6 



154 



296 



215 

 33 987 



185 

 20 716 



95 

 9 900 



82 

 7 356 



13 



281 



7 



32 



47 



37 



10 157 



6 172 



47 



37 



9 176 



5 165 



9 



11 



59 



246 



7 



4 



290 



161 



2 323 



1 327 



47 

 36 



2 323 

 1 314 



13 



28 



1 215 



25 



9 



1 081 



8 



731 



10 



27 



5 



(D) 



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