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Farms and Land in Farms

Census Year: 1954

Within: Volume 2: General Report

Introduction

1. Introduction

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Charts

1. Number of farms in the United States: 1850 - 1954

2. All land in farms and cropland harvested, for the United States: 1850 - 1954

3. Average value of land and buildings per acre, for the United States: 1850 - 1954

4. Acreage of land in farms and not in farms, for the United States: 1850 - 1954

5. The trend in land utilization: 1900 - 1954

6. Irrigated farms in the United States: 1890 - 1954

7. Irrigated land in farms for the United States: 1890 - 1954

8. Acreage of irrigated land in the United States: 1889 - 1954

9. Trends in population, cropland, and farm output in the United States

10. Pasture and graziing land: 1900 - 1954

Maps

1. Number of farms, 1954

2. All land in farms, acreage, 1954

3. Cropland harvested, acreage, 1954

4. Cropland used only for pasture, acreage, 1954

5. Cropland not harvested and not pastured, acreage, 1954

6. Woodland pastured, acreage, 1954

7. Woodland not pastured, acreage, 1954

8. Pasture other than cropland and woodland, acreage, 1954

9. Total cropland, acreage, 1954

10. Total land pastured, acreage, 1954

11. Woodland in farms, acreage, 1954

12. Irrigated land in farms, acreage, 1954

13. Farms with 1 to 9 acres of cropland harvested, number, 1954

14. Farms with 10 to 49 acres of cropland harvested, number, 1954

15. Farms with 50 to 199 acres of cropland harvested, number, 1954

16. Farms with 200 or more acres of cropland harvested, number, 1954

17. Number of farms - increase and decrease, 1950 - 1954

18. Number of farms - increase and decrease, 1945 - 1950

19. All land in farms - increase and decrease, in acreage, 1950 - 1954

20. Average value of land and buildings per acre - increase and decrease, 1950 - 1954

21. Total cropland - increase and decrease, in acreage, 1949 - 1954

22. Cropland harvested - increase and decrease, in acreage, 1949 - 1954

23. Woodland, total - increase and decrease, in acreage, 1949 - 1954

24. Irrigated land - increase and decrease, in acreage, 1949 - 1954

25. Cultivated summer fallow, acreage, 1954

26. Land in row crops or close-seeded crops grown in strips for wind erosion control, acreage, 1954

27. Land in cover crops turned under for green manure, acreage, 1954

28. Cropland used for grain or row crops farmed on the contour, acreage, 1954

29. Percent of total land area in farms, 1954

30. Cropland used as a percent of total land area, 1954

31. Total cropland as a percent of all land in farms, 1954

32. Total pasture, as a percent of all land in farms: Census of 1954

33. Total woodland as a percent of all land in farms: Census of 1954

34. Cropland harvested as a percent of the total land area, 1954

35. Cropland harvested as a percent of all land in farms, 1954

36. Cropland used only for pasture as a percent of total cropland, 1954

37. Cropland used only for pasture as a percent of total pasture, 1954

38. Woodland pastured as a percent of all land in farms, 1954

39. Woodland not pastured as a percent of all land in farms, 1954

40. Cultivated summer fallow as a percent of total cropland, 1954

41. Other pasture (not cropland and not woodland) as a percent of all land in farms, 1954

42. Irrigated land as a percent of all land in farms for 20 States, 1954

43. Land in row crops or close-seeded crops grown in strips for wind erosion control as a percent of total cropland, 1954

44. Average value of land and buildings per farm, 1954

45. Average value of land and buildings per acre, 1954

Tables for the United States

1. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, for the United States, 1850 to 1954

2. Major uses of land in the United States, 1880 to 1954

3. Farms by number of acres of cropland harvested, for the United States: 1954, 1949, and 1944

4. All land in farms and specified uses os land, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1954

5. Items needed to obtain comparability of data for earlier Census years with those for 1954, for total cropland, cropland pastured, and other pasture (not cropland and not woodland)

6. All land and irrigated land in irrigated farms according to use, summary for 20 specified States: Censuses of 1930 to 1954

7. Total, rural, and farm population, for the United States: 1850 to 1954

8. Average number of persons per farm, with per capita data for land in farms, cropland harvested, and valueof farm products sold,, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1954

Tables for Geographic Regions, Divisions, and States

9. Number of farms, all land in farms and value of farms, by divisions and States: 1954, 1950, and 1945

10. Land in farms classified according to use, by divisions and States: 1954, 1949, and 1944

11. Number of farms reporting the serveral classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1954, 1949, and 1944

12. Total cropland, total pasture, and total woodland in farms, by divisions and States: 1954, 1949, and 1944

13. Farms by acres of cropland harvested, by divisions and States: 1954, 1949, and 1944

14. Percent of all land in farms represented by the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1954 and 1949

15. Percent of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1954 and 1949

16. Average acreage per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1954 and 1949

17. Cropland used only for crops not harvested and not pastured and idle cropland, for specified States: 1954

18. Cultivated summer fallow and other cropland not harvested and not pastured, for specified States: 1954 and 1949

19. Specified land use practices and conservation, by divisions and States: 1954

20. Number of farms, all land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farms, by regions and States: Censuses of 1850 to 1954

21. Irrigated farms - number and acreage irrigated, by divisions and States: Censuses of 1954, 1950, and 1945

22. Irrigated farms - all land and irrigated land classified accoding to use, for 20 specified States: Censuses of 1954 and 1950

23. Major uses of land, by divisions and States: 1954, 1950, and 1945

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