AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



where the percentage belonging to this class is 

 28.3, as compared with 23.8 for the country as a 

 whole. Farms containing from one hundred to 

 one hundred and seventy-five acres are relatively 

 most abundant in the North Central division, 

 where the percentage is 29.9 as compared with 

 24.8 for the country as a whole. This same divi- 

 sion contains, also, the highest proportion of 

 farms ranging from one hundred and seventy-five 

 to two hundred and sixty acres in size, the percen- 

 tage being n, as compared with 8.5 for the 

 country as a whole. The farms containing two 

 hundred and sixty acres and over were relatively 

 most abundant in the Western division, the per- 

 centage there being 23.6 as compared with 9.2 

 for the United States as a whole. 



It may be said with respect to the kind of agri- 

 culture which prevailed on the farms of the vari- 

 ous sizes that the census returns for 1900 show 

 that on the farms which contained one hundred 

 acres or more the principal sources of income 

 were, in the vast majority of cases, hay, grain, 

 and live stock. While on farms ranging from 

 ten to fifty acres the principal source of income 

 was more often cotton than any other one product. 

 This corresponds with the fact that small farms 

 ranging from twenty to fifty acres in extent are 

 most abundant in the southern states. It corre- 

 sponds also with the fact that about half of the 

 farms on which cotton is the principal product, 

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