THE SIZE OF FARMS 



Total 5,739,657 100.00 100.0 



From Table No. i, it will be seen that a very 

 large proportion of the farms of the United States 

 (70.5 per cent.) fall into the three classes of farms 

 ranging from twenty to fifty, fifty to one hundred, 

 and from one hundred to one hundred and sev- 

 enty-five acres respectively. With regard to the 

 geographical distribution of the farms of the vari- 

 ous sizes it was shown by the census returns for 

 1900 that small farms ranging from twenty to 

 fifty acres were most abundant in the southern 

 states, the percentage in this class in the South 

 Atlantic division being 27.6, and 30.1 in the 

 South Central division, as compared with 21.9 

 for the country as a whole. Farms ranging from 

 fifty to one hundred acres in extent are relatively 

 most abundant in the North Atlantic division, 



1 Twelfth Census, Vol. V, Tables i and 5. 

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