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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF STATE OF OREGON 



UNDER date of April 18, 1911, Direc- 

 tor of the Census Duraiid issued the 

 first official statement from the Census 



FARMER NEGLECTS FINANCIAL SIDE.— 

 "The financial side of farming, the world's 

 greatest industry, is almost entirely neglected by 

 Ijoth the farmer and the schools," says Dean J. A. 

 Bexell of the Oregon Agricultural College, author 

 of a volume on "Farm Accounting and Business 

 Methods," now in its sixth thousand. "Professor 

 Bailey, of New York, said, in discussing the matter 

 of his own state: 'In visiting practically every 

 farm in one of the counties of the state we did 

 not find one man who knew how much it cost him 

 to produce milk or to raise any of his crops.' The 

 Secretary of Agriculture, in recent Year Books, 

 points out the remarkable prosperity of the farmer; 

 that the export of farm products is vastly in 

 excess of all exports combined; that a million 

 agricultural debtors have been transfomed during 

 the last ten years into the same number of surplus 

 depositors; that 'contrary to his reputation, the 

 farmer is a great organizer, and he has achieved 

 remarkable and enormous successes in many lines 

 of economic co-operation in which the people of 

 other occupations have either made no beginning or 

 have nearly, if not completely, failed.' He points 

 out that most farmers live better than the average 

 merchant or mechanic. It is doubtless true that 

 the farmer is becoming a factor to be reckoned 

 with in the business world; that the average farmer 

 knows vastly more about scientific farming than 

 his father did. He understands more thoroughly 

 the value of proper cultivation, of fertilization, of 

 rotation of crops and of diversified farming. But 

 it cannot be said that he owes his success to 

 improved business methods. He has been success- 

 ful rather in spite of his ignorance in this respect, 

 and because of the lavish generosity of mother 

 nature." The college is now giving courses in 

 farm business management by mail for the benefit 

 of those who cannot attend the courses at the 

 college. Some fifty have already completed the 

 course. 



A special rate of a fare and a third has been 

 made by the railroads for the summer session 

 students at Oregon Agricultural College this year. 



Editor Better Fruit: 



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Bureau relative to the agricultural statis- 

 tics of the State of Oregon collected at 

 the thirteenth decennial United States 

 census, April 15, 1910. It is based on a 

 preliminary comparative summary sub- 

 mitted to the director by Dr. Le Grand 

 Powers, chief statistician of the division 

 of agriculture in the bureau of the cen- 

 sus. This summary shows, for both the 

 census of 1910 and that of 1900, the 

 reported total value of farm land, build- 

 ings, and implements and machinery; 

 total acreage, improved acreage, average 

 acres per farm, average value per acre 

 of farm land and buildings, average value 

 per acre of farm land alone, and aggre- 

 gate expenditures for labor and fertiliz- 

 ers. It also distributes the total number 

 of farms according to color of farmer, 

 specified character of tenure, whether 

 held free or mortgaged by owners and 

 by certain acreage groups. 



The director gives notice that the 

 summary's figures are subject to revision 

 later, owing to the fact that a number 

 of farms whose returns are incomplete 

 will be included in the final tables. These 

 additions will not, in all probability, 

 modify any of the amounts or rates con- 

 tained in the present statement. The 

 census of agriculture was taken primarily 

 for the purpose of obtaining an accurate 

 inventory of all classes of farm property 

 existing on April 15, 1910, a complete 

 exhibit of farm operations during the 

 year ended December 31, 1909, and a 

 statement of the number and value of 

 domestic animals in cities and villages on 

 April 15, 1910. Statements relative to 

 acreage and yield of crops and the 

 domestic animals in Oregon will be 

 issued by Director Durand as soon as 

 the tabulation of this data has been 

 completed. 



It is pointed out in the statement today 

 that the principal rates of increase in 

 Oregon in 1910. as against 1900, are: In 

 the total value of all farm land alone. 

 262 per cent; in the total value of farm 

 land and buildings, 243 per cent; in the 

 average value per acre of farm land 

 alone, 214 per cent; in the average value 

 per acre of farm land and buildings, 197 

 per cent; in the total expenditures for 

 fertilizers, 133 per cent; in the total value 

 of farm buildings alone, 127 per cent; in 

 the total expenditures for labor, 127 per 

 cent; in the total value of all farm imple- 

 ments and machinery, 102 per cent; in 

 the total improved farm acreage, 28 per 

 cent; in the whole number of farms, 26 

 per cent, and in the total farm acreage, 

 15 per cent. The only decrease during 

 the decade, among the items for which 

 per cents are given in the first section 

 nf the summary, occurred in the average 

 acres per farm, namely, 8 per cent. The 

 statement shows in detail that the num- 

 ber of farms reported in 1910 was 45,128, 

 as compared with 35,837 in 1900, an 

 increase of 9,291, or 26 per cent. 



The total value of farm land and build- 

 ings was given in 1910 as $453,571,000, as 

 against $132,338,000 in 1900. an increase 



of $321,233,000, or 243 per cent. The 

 total value of all farm land alone was 

 reported in 1910 as $409,949,000, as com- 

 pared with $113,138,000 in 1900, a gain of 

 $296,811,000, or 262 per cent. The total 

 value of farm buildings alone was given 

 in 1910 as $43,622,000, as against $19,- 

 200,000 in 1900, an increase of $24,422,000, 

 or 127 per cent. In 1910 the value of the 

 farm land alone constituted 90 per cent 

 of the total value of farm land and build- 

 ings, as compared with 85 per cent in 

 1900. 



The reported value of all farm imple- 

 ments and machinery was $13,135,000 in 

 1910, as against $6,507,000 in 1900, a gain 

 of $6,628,000, or 102 per cent. The total 

 acreage reported in 1910 was 11,628,000 

 acres, as compared with 10,071,000 in 

 1900, an increase of 1,557,000 acres, or 15 

 per cent. The improved acreage was 

 returned in 1910 as amounting to 4,253,000 

 acres, as against 3,328,000 in 1900, an 

 increase of 925,000 acres, or 28 per cent. 

 The improved acreage formed 37 per 

 cent of the total acreage in 1910, and 33 

 per cent in 1900. The average acres per 

 farm reported in 1910 was 258, as against 

 281 in 1900, a decrease of 23 acres, or 8 

 per cent. The average value per acre of 

 farm land and buildings in 1910 is stated 

 as $39.01, as against $13.14 in 1900, a rise 

 of $25.87. or 197 per cent. The average 

 value per acre of farm land alone in 1910 

 was reported as $35.26, while in 1900 it 

 was $11.23, the amount of gain being 

 $24.03, or 214 per cent. 



Of the whole number, 45,128, of farms 

 reported in 1910 there were 44,511, or 99 

 per cent, operated by white farmers, and 

 617, or 1 per cent, by negro and other 

 non-white farmers, as compared with a 

 total of 35,837 in 1900, of which 35,286, 

 or 98 per cent, were conducted by white 

 farmers, and 551, or 2 per cent, by negro 

 and other non-white. The increase in 

 the number of farms of white farmers 

 during the decade amounted to 9,225, and 

 in the number of farms of negro and 

 other non-white farmers to 66. 



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