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EMIR being found in farms of over 1,000 acres, while farms of under 20 acres showed a decrease of 5.1 per cent. Farm owners decreased from 3,948,722 to 3,925,090, while tenants increased from 2,354,676 to 2,454,804, and managers increased almost 18 per cent. Native-born white farmers increased in the decade from 75 to 76.3 per cent of the total number, while foreign-born white farmers decreased from 10.5 per cent to 9 per cent. In regard to the conveniences of life, 38.7 per cent of the farms of the country reported telephones in 1920; 10 per cent were equipped with water-pipe systems, and 7 per cent were provided with gas or electric lights. Motor-vehicle returns showed that almost two million farms, or 30 per cent of the entire number, had automobiles, and 2 per cent had motor trucks. The rural population of the country showed an increase of only 3.2 per cent between 1910 and 1920, in comparison with 28.8 per cent increase in the urban population for the same period.
FLOOD LIGHTING came the leader of the Arab nationalist party. Perceiving that Turkey was about to enter the World War on the side of Germany in 1914, he escaped to Mecca and was instrumental in persuading his father to declare the independence of Hedjaz, and as a consequence to take sides with the Allies. In the war he raised an Arab army and acted in conjunction with General Allenby, whose right wing he commanded in the final advance on Jerusalem and Damascus. In March, 1920, an Arab congress at Damascus declared Syria independent and chose Feisal for king, but troubles soon arose with France, which in April, 1920, was named mandatory over Syria, and Feisal was forced to resign the throne.
In establishing a new Arab state in Mesopotamia, England invited him to stand, with her permission, as a candidate for the throne of that country, and he was elected by the native assembly and was crowned king August 23, 1921.
LAW, a law For the first time the rural population by the late William Ferrel concerning FERREL'S LAW, a law propounded was less than the urban. Following are the figures of population, farms, and farm property in the United States:
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Value of farm 1920 105,710,620 51,406,017 54,304,603 48.6 6,448,343 955,883,715 148.2 1910 the effect of the earth's rotation on winds and moving bodies in the northern and southern hemispheres. North of the equator such moving bodies are deflected to the right. In the southern hemisphere they are deflected to the left. 91,972,266 49,806,146 42,166,120 WASHINGTON CONFERENCE.) FIVE-POWER TREATIES. (See 6,361,502 878,798,325 138.1 property..... $77,924,100,338 $40,991,449,090 Average value per farm.... $12,084 $6,444 54.2 FLETCHER, HENRY PRATHER, American diplomat and public official, was born at Green Castle, Pa., April 10, 1873. He was educated at Chambersburg Academy and under private tutors, studying law for four years under the Hon. D. Watson Rowe. He served as a private in the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and was afterward a lieutenant in the Philippine service, 1899-1901. He entered the diplomatic service in 1902 as second secretary to the American legation in Cuba, subsequently serving in China and Portugal. In 1909 he was appointed minister to Chile and in 1916 became ambassador to Mexico. In 1921 he was made Assistant Secretary of State under President Harding and on Jan. 3, 1922, was appointed American ambassador to Belgium.
The value of farm products as recorded in the census of 1920 was almost $15,000,000,000, an increase of 182 per cent over the value in 1909; but this was due mostly to the prevalence of extraordinary prices in 1919. The quantities of all the more important crops showed an average increase of only 8.6 per cent.
The important farm crops of 1921 were estimated by the Department of Agriculture, Dec. 28, 1921, at a value of $5,675,- 877,000, or almost three and a half billion dollars less than the crops of 1920. The total value of crops in 1909 amounted to almost this figure, $5,231,850,683.