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Economic Class of Farm

Census Year: 1959

Within: Volume 2: Statistics By Subjects

Introduction

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2. Contents

Tables

1. Criteria for the economic classes of farms and number of farms in each class, for the conterminous United States: 1959 Census of Agriculture

2. Off-farm work and other income of farm operator and his family for commercial and other farms for the United States: 1959

3. Criteria for the economic classes of farms and number of farms in each class, for the conterminous United States: Censuses of 1954 and 1950

4. Number and change in number of farms with value of products sold of $2,500 and over by type of farm for the conterminous United States: 1959, 1954, and 1950

5. Farms and farm characteristics by economic class of farm, for the United States: Census of 1959

6. Number of farms, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

7. All land in farms, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

8. Acres of cropland harvested, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

9. Average size of farm, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

10. Average value of land and buildings per farm, by divisions and States: 1959

11. Average value of all farm products sold per farm, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

12. Number of tractors (except garden tractors), by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

13. Number of regular hired labor, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

14. Expenditures for hired labor, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

15. Expenditures for feed for livestock and poultry, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

16. Expenditures for gasoline and other petroleum fuel and oil for the farm business, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

17. Number of cattle and calves, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

18. Number of milk cows, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

19. Tons of commercial fertilizer used, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

20. Number of farm operators working off their farms 100 days or more, by economic class of farm, by divisions and States: 1959

Charts and Maps

1. Number of farms by economic class, for the United States: 1959

2. Number of commercial farms and other farms, by States: 1959

3. Percent distribution of commercial farms by total value of farm products sold, by States: 1959

4. Number of farms with over $10,000 total value products sold by geographic regions: 1950 to 1959

5. Commercial farms as a percent of all farms, 1959

6. Other farms

7. Part-time farms

8. Part-retirement farms

9. Commercial farms

10. Class I farms

11. Class I, II, and III farms

12. Farms with less than $2,500 gross sales

13. Farms with less than $2,500 gross sales as a percent of all farms, 1959

14. Farms with gross sales of $10,000 or more - increase and decrease

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