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96.6 per cent of their own total crop acreage. 1 These seven states 

 constitute, therefore, a region in which the cultivated area is 

 almost wholly devoted to the production of those crops in the 

 cultivation and handling of which farm machinery is most used. 

 Their acreage in the different farm crops, as reported to the 

 Census Office, for the period of 1880-1900, was as follows : 



The average acreage in farm crops, per farm of ten acres and 



was, in 1880, 64.4 acres; in 1890, 86.2 acres; in 1900, 



102.5 acres. The average acreage in all farm crops, per person 



cultivating such crops, 8 was, in iS8o, 40.6 acres; in 1890, 53.9 



acres ; in 1900, 62.4 acres. 



1 The total crop acreage of these seven states in 1899 was 108,394,908 acres 

 (Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II. p. 

 vclfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II. i 



8 //>/</., p. 215. 4 //'/,/., p. 527. 



6 ///</., p. 540; Eleventh Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 91 tt seq. 



6 Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 424. 



icts of less than ten acres are excluded as being vegetable, or truck, farms 

 rather than f.irms fi.r thr raisin;,' of the crops here considered. For number of 

 farms, see Twelfth Census, Ag; Vol. I, pp. 688, 690. 



8 Agricultural laborers, farmers, planters, and overseers. 



