Local Conditions as Affecting Farm Values, 1900-1905
Excerpts: Farm real estate in the United States has gained in value in such a degree since the census of 1900 that an examination of the causes of this gain may be not only interesting, but instructive, to the economic student as well as to the practical agriculturist. Inquiries addressed to 45,000...
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2023
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.338202 http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338202 https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/338202/files/StatsBulletin44.pdf |
| Summary: | Excerpts: Farm real estate in the United States has gained in value in such a degree since the census of 1900 that an examination of the causes of this gain may be not only interesting, but instructive, to the economic student as well as to the practical agriculturist. Inquiries addressed to 45,000 State, county, and township crop correspondents in the autumn of 1905 secured reports which, when properly tabulated, establish the conclusion that at this time, about five years after the census, the real estate of farms, medium in quality and equipment of buildings and improvements, has increased in value 33.5 per cent. The highest percentage of increase, 40.3 per cent, was found in the South Central group of States, and close after that 40.2 per cent in the Western group. Third in order is the South Atlantic group, with 36 per cent, while a close fourth place is held by the North Central States with an increase of 35.3 per cent. The lowest increase of the five groups of States into which the country is divided in the census reports occurred in the North Atlantic States, where it is 13.5 per cent. |
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