Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 123, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1919 — U. S. Increases Crop Acreage [ARTICLE]

U. S. Increases Crop Acreage

7 More Than 56,000,000 Acre* Are Added in the Last Ten Year*. Government Statistics Show

More than 56.000,000 acres have been added to the country’s aggregate crop acreage in the last ten year®. Statistics announced by the departmeat of agriculture show the country's agtrregate last year to have been 367.738,000 acres, or 605,840 square miles. That is more than one-fifth of the total land area of continental United States, almost 2D> times the size of the state of Texas and about ten times the land area of the entire New England states. The number of farms in the United States is esti- . mated at 6.717,000. . t ;♦>, on. OOfr acres Texas has the largest aggregate crop acreage with 2<>,3-8,000 a , or a little more than one-sixth of her total land area. Kansas is stf’tmd with 22,588,000 acres, or almost one-half ot Her entire land area. - , - Illinois is third with 21,727,000 acres, or about thrcg-sevenths of her laDd j a JZ is in fourth place with 21,613,000 acres, which is about threesevenths of her land area. . The aggregate crop acreage, which includes those of corn, w , .barlev, oats, rye? buckwheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes. tobacco ’J r ’ hay, cotton', peanuts, kafir, beans, broom corn, hops and cranber , the number of farm? by states, follow: Farms. • 1 1,588.(165 60,000 Main* |uk>! 593.093 27,000 New Hampshire •• | 1,203.795 33,000 Vermont i’-diioo 654,844 37.000 Massachusetts hr'imhi 84.207 5-°°° Rhode Island .... JJ , S4B 27.000 Connecticut ■■ 8,387.731 215,000 New if)TK c • J -intniiQ 22 000 T 1 IS3 000 1,114,900 »StS,VW New Jersey eo—7 B*6 562 218,000 Pennsylvania S ”_,‘' ' 438 s*’2 11.000 r~“ 50.1MX) Virginia - ; • lOO.lMK) ">st Virginia t 275<0w) North Carolina c<Kr>ooo 5.152.847 190,000 South Carolina 12 624 000 Georgia - 1,223.078 56.000 X 11,'462,<MK> 11.431.610 270.000 h ,’° 1“ 764.000 11,331.395 ’ 215,000 n?X 20.273.9 w 245.000 Michigan 8.808.1 MK) 8.198,0<8 Wisconsin 9,526.000 y Minnesota 16.003.tW ’’lsZ Tn ,.. n . 21.613.1Ki0 20.374,920 21.1.000 Missouri’ 15,232,000 14.335.588 275,000 North Dakota 18.298,000 15,888,756 95,000 Aortn vaboia 1„ 0 . >6 772 95,000 South Dakota I.>,M.>,chm a Nebraska .>» ItWO 000 17,231*865 - - 19.900.750 180.000 Kentucky’ ■.’:.7.’.7; :: 6.922.000 6.046,819 270,000 Tenne-ee V.252.1MK) 6.365.143 260,000 Alabama .... 10.5G9.000 7.205.239 280.000 Mississippi 8,089.000 . 6,158. <l9 29d,000 Louisiana 4,981,000 3,586.348 123.000 Texi m ~. '■■-■;’.“S(MIO 18.359.092 450.000 Oklahoma ’7 13.744,000 11.92T.670 220,000 Arkansas * .... 7,399,000 5.376.484 . 230,000.. Mcmtaxm Wyoming 1,569,000 756.650 15.000 Colorad7 4.(Mi<'.(K>o 2.C11.312 ©KOOO New Mexico 1,480.(KK) 63—,<69 4,>,000 Arizona .....7................ -477.1 MM l!M>,<iS2 13,000 Utah »• 1,095.000 755,370 24,000 Nevada 448AKK) 392.387 3,000 l\i a ho 2,136,000 1,638,479 38.000 Washington 3,649.000 . .3.431.213 70,000 Oregon ...t 2.765.000 2,281,288 52,000 California 5,927,000 4,924.733 ' 98.000 United States 307,738.000 311,293,382 6.717,000