Feisal (EMIR being found in farms)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

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. was less than the urban. Following are the figures of population, farms, and farm property in the United States: 1920 1910 Population, 105,710,620 91,972,266 total. 51,406,017 49,806,146 Rural..... 54,304,603 Urban.. Percent 48.6 rural... Number of 6,448,343 6,361,502 farms....... 955,883,715 878,798,325 Land in farms.. Average acres 138.1 148.2 per farm.... Value of farm property..... $77,924,100,338 $40,991,449,090 Average value $6,444 $12,084 per farm.... 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.