Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — Large and Small Farms. [ARTICLE]

Large and Small Farms.

■XWelve of tlu* Status have farms that iwngt- less than 126 acres in extent, which is less llian the average elsewhere, which in some States even, .runs qp nearly to an awcajKof 500 aerti. These twelve Stab •s give the following as the average size of their farms • Aarm.i Acre*. Bainr. 98N«w Jersey 98 Kew Hampshire ... .lSi Pennsylvania 108 Jta»aaehnset;s KS'tndiana 1U Shod* Island 94 Ohio „........ill Comuttieut S 3 Michigan 101 .Bew York. . .103 Wisconsin 11l While the total value of the farms in the Suited States is jiut down at $9,262,803,361, the value in the above small-farm States foots up $5,407,587,178, or nearly three-fifths of the dotal—and this, too, whiter the area of these States is less than one-tenth of the area of the whole country. No inoro conclusive exhibit of the practical superiority of the small-farm system could be given than this. While this record is of interest to those engage 1 on farms, the following table, collected from our agricultural reports, is of hardly less interest We give the average value per acre: Maine s'4 16Texas.... sl2 84 Hew Hampshire.. 19 15 Arkansas ... 17 60 Vermont 18 87 Tennessee . r. t ... 12 70 Massachusetts... 31 10 West Virginia..; . 15 04 Bhode Island.... 34 00Kentucky.. ..... 15 54 Connecticut. ... >3 94 Ohio ... 14 57 Hew York 22 94 Michigan 15 65 Bew Jersey 27 96 Indiana 13 51 mnnsylvania.... SO 80Illinois 1113 Delaware IS 34 Wisconsin 14 18 Maiyland 15 42iMinncsota 11 38 Virginia .. .. 14 15:Iows 849 Borth Carolina... 11 38;Missouri 11 99 South Carolina.. 10 45iKan<-as 892 Georgia... 11 68:Nebraska ....... 7 73 Honda 11 47;Californin is 10 Alabama IS TV Oregon 16 70 Miasissippi 15 etNerada 44 30 lamisiaua 18 61 The Territories... 26 10 — Jf- Y. Express.