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Indian farmers. The population figures, therefore, according 

 to the said explanation of census officials, more fully express 

 the facts of the case, so far as the number of farms and of farm 

 families are concerned, than those of the division of agri- 

 culture (vol. II, p. CCIII and vol. V, p. LXIII). So, divid- 

 ing rural population in 1900 (39,528,398), by total number of 

 farms as reported by the division of population (5,700,341), 

 we find that the number of persons to a farm in 1900 was 6.9. 

 It is necessary to bear in mind in this connection that num- 

 ber of persons to a farm is not identical either with number of 

 persons to a dwelling, 5.3 (vol. II, p. CLVII), or with num- 

 ber of persons to a family, 4.7 (vol. II, p. CLVIII). 



Total value of farm products of 1899 was $4,739,118,752. 

 Average value per farm : Total, $826. Fed to live stock, 

 $170. Not fed to live stock, $656. Average expenditure per 

 farm: Labor, $64. Fertilizers, $10. 



(Abstract of the Twelfth Census, pp. 234-237.) 

 According to this estimate the annual income from the aver- 

 age farm in 1899 was $582 ($656 — $74). As the results of 

 the last census show quite clearly, there were in the United 

 States in 1900, 4,410,877 agricultural laborers in strict mean- 

 ing of the word, i. e., of so-called hired help, (Abstract of the 

 Twelfth Census, p. 24), for 5,700,341 farms or 0.77 of hired 

 man per farm. If we allow 5.9 persons to each farm for 

 1899 (what was the case in 1900), deduct 0.77 of hired agri- 

 cultural laborer per farm from 6.9 persons to each farm, and 

 divide this $582 among them equally, we receive for the farm- 

 ers of the United States an average annual per capita income 

 of $94.9 ($582 divided by 6.13). If we again divide this amount 

 by the number of days in the year we receive for those, who 

 have to depend on the farm for their living, an average per 

 capita income of 26 cents per day ($94.9 divided by 365). 

 There are farm owners, part owners, cash tenants and share 

 tenants, while agricultural laborers in the strict meaning of 

 this word, which are just 0.77 per farm, receive an average 

 annual per capita, $83 ($64 divided by 0.77), and average per 

 capita income of 22.7 cents per day. Thus, it becomes ap- 

 parent beyond any dispute, that an average daily per capita 

 income of agricultural laborer of the United States is just 



