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chapter K Agriculture K 1-328. General note. Basic statistics on agriculture are, for the most part, pre pared by the Bureau of the Census which conducts the Census of Agriculture, and by the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Agricultural Research Service which prepare current estimates. Annual agricultural statistics have been issued by the Department of Agriculture since May 1, 1863. Statistics com piled by the Agricultural Marketing Service on crops, live stock and livestock products, agricultural prices, farm employ ment, and related subjects are based mainly on data obtained by mail from nearly three-quarters of a million reporters, mostly farmers. They are located in every agricultural county in the United States and report on one or more items during a year. Beginning with 1840, a Census of Agriculture has been taken every 10 years and, beginning in 1925, a middecade Census of Agriculture has also been taken. Census information is obtained by a personal canvass of individual farms. The first census was limited in scope. It included such items as an inventory of the principal classes of domestic animals, the production of wool, the value of poultry, the value of dairy products, and the production of principal crops. The num ber of farms and the acreage and value of farmland were first included in 1850 and in 1880 information on farm tenure was first secured. A detailed classification of farmland ac cording to use was first obtained in 1925; in earlier censuses, farmland was classified only as improved land, woodland, and other unimproved land (see chapter J). For brief discussions of the comparability of various agricultural data, census to census, see Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census of Agriculture: 195 U, vol. II. For each decade from 1840 through 1900, the Census of Agriculture was taken as of June 1. The five decennial cen suses since then have been taken as of April 15, 1910; January 1, 1920; April 1, 1930, 1940, and 1950. The 1925, 1935, and 1945 quinquennial Censuses of Agriculture were taken as of January 1 ; the 1954 Census was taken in October and No vember. The definition of a farm has varied as follows from census to census: For the 1954 Census of Agriculture, places of 3 or more acres were counted as farms if the annual value of agricultural products for sale or home use (exclusive of home-garden prod ucts) amounted to $150 or more. Places of less than 3 acres were counted as farms only if the annual value of sales of agricultural products amounted to $150 or more. Places for which the value of agricultural products for 1954 was less than these minima because of crop failure or other unusual conditions and places operated for the first time in 1954 were counted as farms if normally they could be expected to pro duce these minimum quantities of agricultural products. If a place had croppers or other tenants, the land assigned each one was considered a separate farm, even though the landlord handled the entire holding as one operating unit in respect to supervision, equipment, rotation practice, purchase of supplies, or sale of products. Land retained by the land lord and worked by him with the help of his family and/or hired labor was likewise considered a farm. For the 1950 Census of Agriculture, the definition of a farm was the same as for 1954. For the 1945 and earlier cen suses, the definition of a farm was somewhat more inclusive. For 1925-1945, farms included (1) places of 3 or more acres on which there were agricultural operations and (2) places of less than 3 acres if the agricultural products for home use or for sale were valued at $250 or more. The only reports excluded from the 1925-1940 tabulations were those taken in error and those with very limited agricultural production, such as only a small home garden, a few fruit trees, a very small flock of chickens, etc. In 1945, reports for places of 3 acres or more with limited agricultural operations were retained only if (1) there were 3 or more acres of cropland and pasture or (2) the value of products in 1944 amounted to $150 or more. The definition of a farm in the 1910 and 1920 Censuses was similar to that used from 1925 to 1940 but was even more inclusive. In those years, farms of less than 3 acres with products valued at less than $250 were to be included provided they required the continuous services of at least one person. In 1900, there were no acreage or production limits. Market, truck, and fruit gardens, orchards, nurseries, cran berry marshes, greenhouses, and city dairies were to be in cluded provided the entire time of at least one person was devoted to their care. For 1870, 1880, and 1890, no tract of less than 3 acres was to be reported as a farm unless $500 worth of produce was sold from it during the year. For 1860, no definition was given the enumerators. For 1850, no acre age qualification was given, but there was a lower limit of $100 for value of products. K 1. Number of farms, 1850-1957. Source: 1850-1900, Bureau of the Census, I7.S. Census of Agriculture : 195U, vol. II, p. 4; 1910-1956, Agricultural Market ing Service, Number of Farms, by States, 1910-1956 (revised estimates), November 1957; 1957, "Number of Farms, by States, 1957" (mimeographed release), February 1958. For 1910-1957, figures are adjusted estimates that are not exactly comparable with earlier data. Estimates for census years were adjusted for underenumeration and for changes in definition of a farm; estimates for intercensal years are based on trend and on indications of change in acreage and livestock surveys, in annual assessors' censuses in a number of States, in Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation records, and in other miscellaneous verifying data. K 2. Land in farms, 1850-1954. Source: Census years, Bureau of the Census, Censuses of Agriculture, various reports; intercensal years, Department of Agriculture, records (data obtained by straight-line interpo lations). Information on farmland values in scattered local areas is referred to by P. W. Bidwell and J. I. Falconer, History of Agriculture in the Northern United States, 1620-1860, pp. 70-71, 242, and 328. Similar information for Southern States is found in L. C. Gray, History of Agriculture in the Southern 257
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