AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 



Lumbermen and raftsmen 72,190 



Stock raisers, herders, and drovers 85,469 



Turpentine farmers and laborers 24,737 



Woodchoppers 36,265 



Other agricultural pursuits 5,6o6 



There were forty-one acres of improved land 

 in the United States in 1900 for every person en- 

 gaged in strictly agricultural pursuits. In Eng- 

 land there is a little over eight acres of improved 

 agricultural land for each person engaged in 

 agriculture. In Germany one person is employed 

 in agriculture for every ten acres of improved 

 agricultural land. Much work is done by hand 

 in European countries that is done by machinery 

 in America. In Germany, for example, only 

 about one farm in six had any machinery (i. e., 

 as distinguished from tools) used upon it in 1895. 

 It is the great number of small farms that makes 

 the percentage so low. Most of the large farmers 

 used some machinery, and yet scarce a third of 

 these farmers employed mowing and reaping 

 machines. 



A better test of the relative intensity of culture 

 of the various countries is the number of bushels 

 per acre which they produce of the same grain. 

 For the year 1902 the average production of 

 wheat in the United States was 14.5 bushels per 

 acre; in Germany, 23.5 ; in England, 31.9 bushels. 

 For the same year the average production of oats 

 in the United States was 28.7 bushels per acre; 

 in Germany, 44.9; in England 41.5 bushels, 



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