7 i6 UNITED STATES STATISTICS 



buildings, $6,325,451,528 (77.8%); implements and machinery $1,265,149,783 (68.7%); and 

 domestic animals, poultry and bees, $4,925,173,610 (60. i %). 



In 1910 east of the Mississippi were 41.7% of all farm land and 45.6% of improved farm 

 land; in 1900, 43.8% and 51.1 %. The land in farms was divided in 1910 between North, 

 South and West in proportion of 47.1, 40.3 and 12.6%; the corresponding figures for 1900 

 being 45.6, 43.2 and 11.2%. Of the improved area 60.6% was in the North, 31.5% in the 

 South and 7.9 in the West in 1910; the percentages in 1900 -were 63, 30.4 and 6.6. 



Acreage of Farms. Of the total increase in farm acreage in the decade more than three- 

 fourths was in the West North Central states, where the percentage of increase was 15.7%. 

 An even larger percentage but a much smaller total increase was in the Mountain group 

 (28.3%). There was scarcely any increase in the East South Central group (0.3%), and 

 actual decreases in the West South Central (4.2%), in New England (4.1) and in the Middle 

 Atlantic group (3.7%). Only in the two groups last named were there decreases in the im- 

 proved acreage, 10.8 % in New England and 4.8% in the Middle Atlantic group. In each 

 state of these two groups there was a falling off both in total area and in improved area: 

 in Vermont there was 23.2 % less improved farm land in 1910 than in 1900. The greatest 

 decreases in farm land for the separate states were: Arizona, 35.6% (but 37.6% increase in 

 improved area) ; Utah, 17.5 % (but 32.6 % increase in improved area) ; Texas 10.6 % (but 39.8 % 

 increase in' improved acreage); West Virginia 5.9% (but a slight increase 0.4% in improved 

 acreage). The greatest increases in area of all farms were: in New Mexico, 119.7% (and 

 348.9% increase in improved land); North Dakota, 82.9% (and 112.1 % increase, improved 

 land) ; Idaho, 64.9 % (and 96.6 % in improved land) ; Colorado, 42.8 % (and 89.2 % in improved 

 land); Washington, 37.8% (and 83.9% improved); South Dakota, 36.4% (and 40.2% im- 

 proved); Nebraska, 29.1% (and 32.3% improved); and Oklahoma, 25.5% (and 104.7% 

 improved). The great increase in improved land is shown by the fact that in 1900 it was 

 49.4 % but in 1910 54.4 % of all farm land, and by the fact that although the percentage of the 

 total farm land improved decreased slightly in the decade in New England (from 39.6 to 36.8) 

 and in the Middle Atlantic states (from 68.6 to 67.9), this decrease was in two distinctly non- 

 agricultural (but manufacturing) groups. In every other group there was increase; East 

 North Central from 74.5% to 75-4% (in 1910, 56.6% of all land was improved farm land); 

 West North Central from 67.5 % to 70.6 % (in 1910, 50.3 % of all land was improved) ; South 

 Atlantic, from 44.2% to 46.7%; East South Central, from 49.5% to 53.9% (38.2% of all 

 land improved); West South Central, 22.5% to 34.4%; Mountain, 18.1 % to 26.7% (only 

 2.9 % of all land) ; and Pacific, from 39.6 % to 42.9 %. In 1910 59.5 % of all farm land and 

 39.8 % of all land was improved east of the Mississippi; and 50.8 % of farm land and 19.2 % 

 of the entire land area, west of the Mississippi. In the North 70.1 %of farm land and 49.3 % 

 of all land was improved; in the South, 42.5 % and 26.8 %; and in the West, 34.2 % and 5 %. 



The average farm is larger in the newer than in the older part of the country; in the 

 West, 296.9A. (386.1 in 1900), in the North, I43A. (133.2 in 1900), and in the South II44A. 

 (138.2 in 1900) ; but the figures for the South are somewhat misleading, as the census classifies 

 as separate farms the several tenant holdings of a large plantation. East of the Mississippi 

 the average acres of land per farm was 93 (99.8 in 1900); and west, 211.3 ( 22 9 in 1900). 



Farm Values. In 1910 67 % of the value of all farm property was in the North (33% in 

 the West North Central and 24.7 in the East North Central group); 21.9% in the South (9.4 

 West South Central; 7.2, South Altantic; 5.3, East South Central); and ii.i % in the West 

 (6.8, Pacific and 4.3, Mountain). East of the Mississippi was 46.5 % of the whole value; 

 west, 53.5. But, east, the value of land was only 43.1 % and the value of live stock only 

 43-8 %; the value of buildings, 62.8 %, and the value of implements 52.2 % of the total of each 

 of these items, the first two being less and the second two more than the percentage of the 

 value of all property in the West. The percentage of increase in the value of all farm prop- 

 erty was 69.1, east, and 139.3, west of the Mississippi; or, by the three-fold division, 90.1 % 

 in the North, no.i in the South, and 164.7% in the West. The average value of all farm 

 property per acre was $46.64 in 1910 and $24.37 in I 9 f r the entire country; in the North 

 it was $66.46 (76% more than in 1900); in the South, $25.31 (114.7% increase); and in the 

 West, $40.93 (123.9% increase). 



The average value of farm property per farm, east of the Mississippi, increased in the 

 decade from $3,067 to $4,849; and west of the Mississippi from $4,448 to $9,030. In 1910 

 the average in the North was $9,507; in the South $2,897, and in the West, $12,155 (Pacific 

 group $14,643; California, $18,308; Nevada, $22,462). But comparisons are misleading, 

 because the average acreage differs so much in the different parts of the country and the 

 number of live stock is so much greater in the West (and, to a less degree, in the North) than 

 in the South. The average value of buildings per farm, it is to be noted, was higher in the 

 North (81,564) than in the West ($1,009) and much higher than in the South ($461); but in 

 land, machinery and live stock, the rank of the three regions was: first, the West; second, the 

 North, and third, the South. 



Production. 1 The crops of 1911 were unusually small and those of 1912 remarkably large. 



1 Statistics for 1911 are from the Year-Book of the U.S. department of agriculture; those 

 for 1912 are preliminary estimates made by that department. 



