FARM MACHINERY 



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State 



Cereal Ackeagb, of 

 Total Crop Acreage 



Cereal Value, of 

 Total Crop Value 



Illinois . . . 

 Iowa . . . . 

 Kansas . . . 



Nebraska . . 

 Minnesota . . 

 North Dakota 

 South Dakota 



Per cent 

 80.4 



76.3 

 72.5 



79-7 

 74.0 



717 

 70.2 



Per cent 

 77.6 

 76.9 



74.2 

 82.3 



75-9 

 74-4 

 78.3 



96.6 per cent of their own total crop acreage. ^ 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 : 



1900 



1880 



Cereals 2 . . . 

 Hay and forage ^ 

 Tobacco* . . . 

 Hops 6 .... 

 Cotton*. . . . 

 Totals TT 



82,116,414 



22,010,381 



2,587 



911 



153 



58,522,442 



19.770,323 



4,500 



46 



731 



39,923,160 



7,998,365 



6,906 



103 



104,130,446 



78,298,042 



47,928,534 



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

 over,'^ 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,^ was, in 1880, 40.6 acres; in 1890, 53.9 

 acres ; in 1900, 62,4 acres. 



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

 (Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 62). 

 2 Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 63. 

 8 //)/i/., p. 215. /did., p. 527. 



6 /did., p. 540; Eleventh Census, Agriculture, Vol. II, p. 91 et seq. 



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



"^ Tracts of less than ten acres are excluded as being vegetable, or truck, farms 

 rather than farms for the raising of the crops here considered. For number of 

 farms, see Twelfth Census, Agriculture, Vol. I, pp. 688, 690. 



* Agricultural laborers, farmers, planters, and overseers. 



