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standard were placed at 75 per cent of the income from 

 one of the classes of products, nearly all the farms would 

 have been miscellaneous. If, in addition, the hay and 

 grain farms and other collective classes were divided into 

 corn, hay, wheat, etc., there would have been practically 

 no farms left to call specialized. With the classification 

 given, we find that when all the fruits are combined, the 

 fruit farms constitute only 1.4 per cent of the total farms. 

 Only 6 per cent of the farms derived as much as 40 per cent 

 of their income from the dairy. The farms that derived 

 40 per cent from vegetables, tobacco, fruits, sugar, flowers 

 and plants, or nursery products, and rice, altogether made 

 up only 6 per cent of the total farms. 



TABLE 19. CLASSIFICATION OF FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES 

 IN 1899 BY PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF INCOME. AT LEAST 40 

 PER CENT OF THE INCOME WAS DERIVED FROM THE GIVEN 

 SOURCE l 



1 Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900, Vol. V, Part I, p. liii. 

 Alaska and Hawaii omitted. 



