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BULLETIN 12-58, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
For a comparison of the size of farms in this area in 1918 with that 
in two other Corn-Belt areas — Warren County, Iowa, and Tama 
County, Iowa — where similar investigations were made the same 
year, see Table 3. 
Table 3. — Comparison of size of farms in three areas of the Corn Belt in 1918. 
Per cent of farms in each size 
group 
Acres per farm. 
100 
farms in 
Clinton 
County 
Ind. 
183 
farms in 
Warren. 
County 
Iowa. 
209 
farms in 
Tama 
County 
Iowa. 
20 and under _ . .. 
1 
21to60 
11 
33 
24 
15 
5 
5 
1 
2 
2 
1 
17 
61 to 100 
8 
7 
33 
12 
14 
101 to 140 
23 
25 
9 
10 
3 
4 
3 
141 to 180 
181 to 220 
221 to 260 
261 to 300 
301 to 340 ' 
10 
341 to 380 
2 
3 
1 
381 to 420 
1 
421 to 460 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
461 to 500 
501 to 540 
1 
541 to 580 . 
1 
581 to 620 
1 
Average acres per farm 
127 
177 219 
The average size of farms 
The increase in average size of the 100 farms from 116 acres in 1910 
to 130 acres in 1916, 1917, and 1919, is in accord with the 1910 and 
1920 data of the Bureau of the Census, winch show increases in aver- 
age size of farms from 99 to 103 acres for the State of Indiana, and 
from 93 to 104 acres for Clinton County 
in the county, in 1900, was 84 acres. 
Changes in the size of many of the farms in this area occurred dur- 
ing the period of this investigation. 
There were more than 150 different farms and 150 different oper- 
ators included in this investigation. 
Of the 100 farms selected from the total number each year 46 farms were the 
same farms all eight years, 31 seven of the years, 15 six of the years, and 8 for 
fewer than six years. 
Of the 100 operators 47 were the same all eight of the years, 26 seven of the 
years, 14 six of the years, and 13 for fewer than six years. 
Of the 100 farms 42 were the same farms operated by the same men all eight 
of the years, 26 seven of the years, 15 six of the years, and 17 for fewer than six 
years. 
Of the 46 farms, which were included every year, 14 were the same size through- 
out the period, 6 were the same size every year but one, 4 every year but two, 
4 every year but three, 5 of the farms were the same size only four of the eight 
years, 5 three of the eight years, 6 two of the eight years, 2 farms were different 
sizes each year; 16 of these farms were the same size in 1919 as in 1910, while 
21 were larger in 1919 than they were in 1910, and 9 were smaller in 1919 than in 
1910. 
Of the 47 men operating every year, 14 were operating the same sized farms in 
1919 as in 1910, 24 were operating larger farms, and 9 were operating smaller 
farms. 
Of the 42 men operating the same farm every year, 14 were operating the same 
sized farms in 1919 as in 1910, while 20 were operating larger farms in 1919 than 
in 1910, and 8 were operating smaller farms in 1919 than in 1910. 
