In addition to the woodland not pastured, 2 mil- 
lion acres of the pasture land was classed as wood- 
land pasture, making a total of nearly 3 million 
acres of woodland in farm ownership. Much of 
this, however, is stump land supporting only a 
sparse stand of second-growth conifers or hard- 
woods; on the other hand, a considerable part of 
the area classed as woodland pasture is well forested 
and is only 
Since only about 4% million acres was classified by 
the survey as agricultural, it can be seen that only 
a small portion of the woodland pasture was 
intermittently used for grazing. 
classed in the survey as agricultural; the remainder 
was considered forest land. Not all the forest land 
in farm ownership can be considered as farm 
woods, or woods managed in conjunction with 
agricultural land; some of it is entirely unrelated 
to the farm operation and is merely timberland 
adjacent to farms that is being held until the tim- 
ber can be logged. Many a farm in the Douglas-fir 
region consists of a few acres of tillable bottom 
land and a large area of mountainous forest land. 
Such a farm is only a place of residence for the 
owner, producing not more than enough for 
family consumption. ‘This type of farmer obtains 
a cash income from woods work and regards his 
forest land as a timber investment to be liquidated 
whenever possible. 
There were nearly 100,000 farms in the Douglas- 
fir region in 1934, according to the Bureau of the 
Census. The average farm contained 70 acres: 
21 acres of cropland, 5 acres of plowable pasture, 
21 acres of woodland pasture, 10 acres of other 
pasture, 8 acres of woodland not pastured, and 5 
acres of land classified as miscellaneous. 
The Bureau of the Census classified 22 percent of 
the farms as dairy farms, 19 percent as abnormal, 
16 percent as general farms, 14 percent as poultry 
farms, 11 percent as fruit farms, 7 percent as self- 
sufhicing farms, and 11 percent as either grain, crop 
specialty, truck, animal specialty, or stock farms. 
It is significant that such a large percent was classed 
as abnormal farms, a category comprising five 
subtypes—institutions, part-time farm, boarding 
and lodging farms, forest-product farms, and horse 
farms. In this group the part-time farms and 
forest-product farms are probably the most im- 
portant and numerous. The part-time farm is 
defined as one where “‘the operator spent 150 days 
or more off the farm, in other than farm work, or 
reported an occupation other than farmer, pro- 
vided the value of products did not exceed $750.” 
Many of the part-time farmers were employed in 
The forest-product farm is de- 
‘where value of forest products sold 
forest industries. 
fined as one ‘ 
represented 50 percent or more of the total value 
of all products of the farm.” This type of farm is 
common in the Douglas-fir region. 
‘The most recent population census, that of 1930, 
showed that in this region the rural farm popula- 
tion amounted to 316,778, or 16.8 percent of the 
total For the same year persons 
classed as gainfully employed in agriculture num- 
population. 
bered 103,643, which is 12.7 percent of the regional 
total of persons gainfully employed in all occupa- 
tions. 
TABLE 27.—Acreage of improved farm land and of farm woods, number of farms, and average size of farms in the Douglas-fir 
region |, in stated years 
Year | Land in farms Farms on | Farm land ? improved | Farm land an farm 
| farms | woods 
| 
| Acres Percent | Number | Acres Acres Percent Acres Percent 
S80 eae ee eee ee EE ee tee 4, 028, 421 11.6 | 15, 819 | 254. 7 1, 958, 037 48.6 1, 793, 678 | 44.5 
1890_—-_- 4, 763, 145 13.7 23, 384 203. 7 1, 990, 736 ACR yee eer ee eee <2 
1900___ 6, 268, 601 18.0 39, 237 159.8 | 1, 880, 431 S0KO}| Geese eer Bpescde E 
1910___ 6, 260, 944 18.0 54, 775 114.3 | 2, 133, 081 34.1 2, 180, 796 34.8 
1920___ | 6,223, 326 17.9 64, 592 96.3 | 2,386, 164 38. 3 2, 226, 895 35.8 
VPS a eae pe IR | 6, 214, 646 17.9 78, 917 78.7 | 2,299, 283 37.0 2, 685, 412 43,2 
TB ee 2 Oe a Ra is ea) Se ee eee eee 6, 421, 233 18.5 77, 165 83.2 | 2,447, 502 38.1 | 2,791, 580 43.5 
O35 errr ane cee urete Acs ani) Joa Ue | 6, 866, 127 ORT, 95, 991 71.5 | 2, 527, 981 36.8 | 2, 950, 404 43. 0 
1 Exclusive of Hood River County, which was created in 1908 from part of Wasco County. 
2 Includes cropland and plowable pasture. 
3 Includes woodland pasture and woodland not pastured. 
Data from Bureau of the Census. 
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