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Farms and Farm Property

Census Year: 1940

Within: Volume 3: General Report

Introduction

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2. Introduction

Charts

1. Total, rural, and farm population in the United States: 1850 - 1940

2. Number of farms in the United States: 1850 - 1940

3. All land in farms and cropland harvested for the United States: 1850 - 1940

4. Percent of all land in farms represented by cropland harvested and crop failure, by States: 1940 and 1930

5. Value of specified classes of farm property in the United States: 1850 - 1940

6. Percent distribution of value of specified classes of farm property, by States: 1940 and 1930

7. Average value of land and buildings, per acre, for the United States: 1850 - 1940

8. Irrigated farms in the United States: 1890 - 1940

Maps

1. Rural population - Increase and decrease

2. Farm population - Increase and decrease

3. Number of farms - Increase and decrease

4. All land in farms - Increase and decrease

5. Value of farms (land and buildings) - Increase and decrease

6. Cropland harvested - Increase and decrease

7. Value of farm implements and machinery - Increase and decrease

8. Value of livestock - Increase and decrease

9. Rural population, April 1, 1940

10. Farm population, April 1, 1940

11. Number of farms, April 1, 1940

12. Value of farm products sold, traded, or used by farm households, 1939

13. Value of farms (land and buildings), April 1, 1940

14. Value of farm buildings, April 1, 1940

15. Value of farm implements and machinery, April 1, 1940

16. Value of livestock, April 1, 1940

17. All land in farms - Acreage, April 1, 1940

18. Cropland harvested - Acreage, 1939

19. Irrigated cropland harvested - Acreage, 1939

20. Crop failure - Acreage, 1939

21. Woodland in farms - Acreage, 1939

22. Cropland, idle or fallow - Acreage, 1939

23. All other land in farms - Acreage, 1939

24. Plowable pasture - Acreage, 1939

25. Average value of land and buildings per farm, April 1, 1940

26. Average value of land and buildings per acre, April 1, 1940

Tables for the United States

1. Population in the United States: 1850 to 1940

2. Average number of persons per farm with per capita data for land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farm products, for the United States: 1850 to 1940

3. Number of farms, all land in farms, and total land area for the United States: 1850 to 1940

4. All land in farms and specified uses of land, in the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1940

5. Value of specified classes of farm property in the United States: 1850 to 1940

6. Irrigated and nonirrigated farms - Number, acreage, ad specified values, by extent of irrigation, for farms in selected States: 1940 and 1930

7. Irrigated farms - Number and acreage irrigated, for the United States: Census of 1890 to Census of 1940

Tables for the Geographic Divisions and States

8. Farm population, by divisions and States: 1940, 1935, and 1930

9. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, with percent distribution, by divisions and States: 1940, 1935, and 1930

10. All land in farms, 1940, 1935, and 1930; classified according to use in 1939, 1934, and 1929, by divisions and States

11. Number of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, with percent of all farms reporting, by divisions and States: 1939, 1934, and 1929

12. Average acreage per farm, 1940, 1935, and 1930; and average acreage based on all farms, of the several classes of land according to use, 1939, 1934, and 1929, by divisions and States

13. Average acreage, per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, with selected averages per horse and mule and per tractor, by divisions and States: 1939, 1934, and 1929

14. Percentage of all land in farms represented by the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1939, 1934, and 1929

15. Percent distribution of the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1939, 1934, and 1929

16. Value of specified classes of farm property, by divisions and States: 1940, 1935, and 1930

17. Number of farms reporting value of specified classes of farm property with average values per farm reporting, by divisions and States: 1940 and 1930

18. Total population, number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, by divisions and States: 1850 to 1940

19. Irrigated land - Farms reporting and acreage, by divisions and States: 1939, 1934, and 1929

20. Irrigated farms - Number, acreage, and specified values, by extent of irrigation, for selected States, by States: 1940 and 1930

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