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2. Introduction

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1. Items needed to obtain comparability of data for earlier census years with those for 1959, for total cropland, cropland pastured, and other pasture ( not cropland and not woodland)

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2. Total, rural, and farm population, for the United States: 1850 to 1959

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3. Average number of persons per farm, with per capita data for land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farm products sold, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

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4. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, for the United States: 1850 to 1959

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5. Major uses of land in the United States: 1890 to 1959

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6. All land in farms and specified uses of land, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

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7. Farms by number of acres of cropland harvested for the United States: 1949 to 1959

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8. Average acreage per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, by regions: 1959 and 1950

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9. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1950

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10. Land in farms classified according to use, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

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11. Number of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

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12. Total cropland, total pasture, and total woodland in farms, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

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13. Major uses of land, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

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14. Farms by acres of cropland harvested, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

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15. Percent of all land in farms represented by the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

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16. Percent of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

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17. Average acreage per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

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18. Cultivated summer fallow, 1959 and 1954; and cropland used only for soil-improvement cropas and other cropland not harvested and not pastured, 1959: for specified States

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19. Irrigated farms - number and acreage irrigatede by divisions and States: Censuses of 1959, 1954, and 1950

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20. Specified land - use and conservation practices, by divisions and States: 1959

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21. Number of farms, all land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farms, by regions and States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

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1. Acreage of land in farms and not in farms, for the United States: 1850 to 1960

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2. Land utilization as a percent of total land area

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3. Land in farms according to use: 1959 and 1954

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4. Number of farms in the United States: 1850 to 1959

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5. All land in farms in the United States: 1850 to 1959

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6. Cropland harvested for the United States: 1879 to 1959

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7. Pasture and grazing land for the United States: 1930 to 1959

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8. Average value of land per farm: 1850 to 1959

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9. All land in farms

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10. Total cropland

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11. Total land pastured

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12. Land in soil-improvement crops, not harvested and not pastured

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13. Land in cover crops

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14. Cropland used for grain or row crops farmed on the contour

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15. Land in strip crops for soil erosion control

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16. Crop and pasture land with terraces

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17. Total cropland as a percent of all land in farms, 1959

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18. Cropland harvested as a percent of the total land area, 1959

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19. Cropland harvested

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20. Cropland used only for pasture

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21. Cropland not harvested and not pastured

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22. Cultivated Summer fallow

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23. Total pasture as a percent of all land in farms, 1959

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24. Pasture other than cropland and woodland

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25. Woodland pastured

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26. Woodland in farms

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27. Number of farms, 1959

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28. Average size of farms, 1959

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29. Number of farms - increase and decrease

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30. Number of farms - decrease due to change in definition

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31. Total cropland - increase and decrease

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32. Cropland harvested - increase and decrease

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33. Improved pasture, other than cropland and woodland

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34. Average value of land and buildings per farm, 1959

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35. Average value of land and buildings per acre, 1959

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