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Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture^ 19M. 



Fig. 105. — The value of farm buildings is greatest in southeastern Pennsylvania, 

 •where it exceeds the value of the land, and averages .?4,000 to $5,000 per farm. In the 

 Corn Belt the average value of farm buildings is $3,400 per farm, and it is almost as 

 much in the Spring Wheat Area, and the southern portion of the Hay and Pasture 

 Kegion. In the Cotton Belt, on the other hand, the average value is only $738, owing 

 in part to the lai'ge number of negro shanties. However, the value of the buildings on 

 the landlord's farm in a plantation is almost as great as the values in the Corn Belt. 

 These values of farm Imildings include Ijarns and outbuildings, and since the value 

 of the house is, in general, about half that of all farm buildings, the average value 

 of farm houses in the United States is only about $900. 



Fig. 106. — About one-half of the value of farm implements and machinery in the 

 United States was reported in 1920 from the Corn Belt and the Hay and Pasture 

 Region; but the greatest value per farm ($1,370* was in the Spring Wheat .\rpa. In 

 the general farming districts of the North and West the average farm had about 

 $1,000 worth of machinery in 1920, but the much smaller amount per farm in the 

 Cotton Belt ($215), and in the Corn and Winter Wheat Region ($400), reduced the 

 Nation's average to $557. The proportion which the value of machinery and imple- 

 ments constituted of the total value of farm property was extraordinarily uniform, ranging 

 around 4 to 5 per cent in all the regions, except in the Hay and Pastui'e Region, where it 

 constituted 7 per cent. 



