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FARM LAND VALUES IN IOWA. 5) 
To obtain comparative data concerning farm earnings for the 
year 1918 a farm management survey was made covering about 400 
farms in the same areas. A large number of these farms were the 
~ same for which data had been obtained in previous surveys. ' 
TREND OF LAND VALUES IN THE COUNTRY AS A WHOLE. 
Before beginning the study of farm land values in Iowa it is de- 
sirable to determine the extent of the area in the United States 
characterized by a marked advance in farm land values such as has 
occurred in that State. 
In Table I, which comprises unpublished data supplied by the 
Bureau of Crop Estimates, are shown the estimated average values per 
acre of farm land and improvements for all the States, together with 
the estimated increase per acre and per cent of increase from March 1, 
1919, to March 1 1920 
TABLE I.—Average value of farm land and improvements, by States, 1915, 1919, 1920, 
and increase per acre and per cent of increase, 1919 to 1920. (Estimates obtained by the 
Bureau of Crop Estimates.) 
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Average value per | Increase 1919 Average value per | Increase1919 
acre. 01920. - || acre. to 1920. 
State. SSS State. 
5 Per Per r Per | Per 
1915 | 1919 | 1929 acre. | cent. | 1915 | 1919 | 1920 orcenllearte 
SA | Sih 
WENN. 25on5556 $36. 00 |$47.00 |$52.00 | $5.00} 10.6 || N. Dakota... ../$34. 00 |$43. 00 |$50.00 | $7.00 | 16.2 
N. Hampshire.| 37.00 | 45.00 | 52.00 7.00| 15.5 || S. Dakota... .. 58. 00 | 80.00 |110.00 | 30.00, 37.5 
Vermont....-- 39. 00 | 47.00 | 53.00 | 6.00} 12.7 || Nebraska..... 71. 00 |105. 00 {135.00 | 30.00] 28.5 
Massachusetts.| 72.00 | 80.00 |100. 00 | 20.00 | 25.0 |} Kansas....-.--- 53.00 | 69.00 | 80.00 | 11.00 | 15.9 
Rhode Island .| 95. 09 | 90.00 | 95.00 | 5.00 5.5 || Kentucky....-.| 38.00 | 81.00 | 85.00] 4.00 4.9 
Connecticut. .-.| 63.00 | 67.00 | 85.00 | 18.00 | 26.8 |; Tennessee. ---- 38. 00 | 65.00 | 77-00 | 12.00 | 18.4 
New York... -} 65.00 | 75.00 | 88.00 } 13.00} 17.3 || Alabama.....- 20. 00') 29.00 | 38.00] 9.00) 31.0 
New Jersey - . -} 90. 00 |i13. 00 |125. 00 | 12.00 | 10.6 || Mississippi-...-] 20.00 | 32.00 | 48.00 | 13.00 | 40.6 
Pennsylvania .| 64.00 | 79.00 | 92.00 | 13.00 | 16.4 |) Louisiana..-.. 30. 00 | 43.00 | 65.00 | 22.00 | 51.1 
' Delaware... -.- 63. 00 | 78.00 | 94.00 | 16.00 | 20.5 |} Texas.......-.- 40. 00 | 55.00 | 69.00 | 14.00 | 25.4 
Maryland..... 56.00 | 69.00 | 91.00 | 22.00} 31.8 |} Oklahoma 29.00 | 43.50 | 55.00 | 11.50 | 26.4 
Waigebauela os eeee 4.00 | 60.00 | 68.00; 8.00] 13.3 || Arkansas... -. 23.00 | 42.00 | 55.00 ; 13.00 | 30.9 
W. Virginia 34.00 | 51.00 | 58.00 | 7.00} 13.7 || Montana.....-. 35. 00 | 39.00 | 42.C0 |} 3.00 7.6 
N. Carolina....| 33.00 | 47.00 | 75.00 | 28.00 | 59.5 || Wyoming..... | 35.00 | 50.00 | 60.00 | 10.00 | 20.0 
S. Carolina. ...| 30.00 | 53.00 | 75.00 , 22.00 | 41.5 |} Colorado....-- | 55.00 | 66.00 | 75.00] 9.00} 13.6 
Georgia....... 24.CO ! 45.20 | 57.00 | 11.80} 26.1 || New Mexico. -| 52.00 } 62.00 | 62.00 | 0.00 0 
Womans... 40. 00 | 60.00 | 72.00 | 12.00 | 20.0 || Arizona.....-.-| 107. 00 |130. 00 |185. 00 | 55.00 | 42.3 
Ohions sae 55. 86. 00 |109. 00 {130.00 | 21.00 | 19.2 || Utah.........- 85.00 |130. 00 |150.00 | 20.00} 15.3 
Indtana.....-- 90. 00 |120. 00 |145. 00 | 25.00} 20.8 || Nevada....... 85. 00 | 90.00 | 90.00 | 0.00 0 
MOISE 222-2 126. 00 |164. 00 |204.00 | 40.00 | 24.3 || Idaho......... 66.00 | 97.00 |125°00 | 28.00 | 28.8 
Michigan.....- 61. 00 | 80.00 | 87.00 | 7.00 8.7 || Washington..-| 99. 00 {115.00 |i50. 00 | 35.00 | 30.4 
Wisconsin...--.| 80. 00 |109. 00 {130.00 | 21.00} 19.2 || Oregon.....--- 75. 00 | 95. 00 |120. 00 | 25.00 | 26.3 
Minnesota.....| 65.00 | 94.00 {124.00 | 30.00 | 31.9 || California... .- 175. 00 |218. 00 }190. 00 | 28.00 |...-.- 
OW eee 134. 00 |192. 00 |255. 00 | 63.00 | 32.8 — | 
Missouri... -.-- 58.00 | 82.00 |104.00 | 22.00 | 26.8 || United States.) 59.91 | 81.89 | 99.24 | 17.35 | 21.1 
1 Acknowledgment is due the farmers and other business men who made this study possible and to the 
members of the statf of lowa State College and of the Office of Farm Management, U.S. Department of 
Agriculture, who aided in the gathering and tabulation of the data used. 
Survey data for 1913 and 1915 were collected by H. B. Munger, J. Whitson, Wm. Brand, Russell Engberg, 
Fred C. Fenton, R. J. Leth, E. H. Lott, W. TV. Maaksted, M. B. Posten, Geo. X. Reed, Harold W. Reid, 
Louis Sawyer, Allan M. Smith, and L. B. Snyder, of the Farm Management Department, Ames, Iowa. 
Prof. H. B. Munger supervised the collection and tabulation of the results. 
The data for 1918 and 1919 were collected by Earl D. Strait, C. O. Brannen, II. H. Clark, J. S. Donald, 
R. D. Jennings, Bruce McKinley, J. C. Rundles, C. F. Sarle, F. H.Shelledy, and C. C. Taylor, of the Office 
of Farm Management, United States Department of Agriculture. Messrs. Howard A. Turner and J. C. 
Rundles supervised the tabulation of the results. 
