Salary of Minister—Inasmuch as some ministers receive, in addition to their cash salary, the free use of a house while others do not, a comparison of the cash salaries paid is misleading. In all salary comparisons, therefore, the cash value of a free parsonage is arbitrarily stated as $250 a year, and that amount is added to the cash salary of each minister with free parsonage privileges. Thus an average salary stated as $1,450 is equivalent to $1,200 cash and the free use of a house.
APPENDIX II
Tables
I
LAND AND FARM AREA IN THE RANGE COUNTIES ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL CENSUSES FOR 1910 AND 1920
| Beaverhead | Hughes | Sheridan | Union | |||||||||||||
| 1920 | 1910 | 1920 | 1910 | 1920 | 1910 | 1920 | 1910 | |||||||||
| Approximate land area (acres) | 3,620,480 | 3,020,160 | 485,760 | 485,760 | 1,647,360 | 1,648,000 | 3,436,800 | 3,436,800 | ||||||||
| Land in farms (acres) | 637,009 | 461,315 | 284,907 | 165,069 | 625,796 | 421,543 | 2,515,522 | 814,011 | ||||||||
| Improved land in farms (acres) | 270,603 | 275,530 | 144,237 | 62,531 | 113,385 | 95,368 | 273,748 | 72,630 | ||||||||
| Woodland in farms (acres) | 7,142 | 3,088 | 7,032 | 2,521 | 8,741 | 7,269 | 51,634 | 1,854 | ||||||||
| Other unimproved land in farms (acres) | 359,264 | 182,697 | 133,638 | 100,017 | 503,670 | 318,906 | 2,190,140 | 739,527 | ||||||||
| Per cent. of land area in farms | 17.6 | 15.3 | 58.7 | 34.0 | 38.0 | 25.6 | 73.2 | 23.7 | ||||||||
| Per cent. of farm land improved | 42.5 | 59.7 | 50.6 | 37.9 | 18.1 | 22.6 | 10.9 | 8.9 | ||||||||
| Average acreage per farm | 992.1 | 860.7 | 784.9 | 440.2 | 643.8 | 527.6 | 948.5 | 423.3 | ||||||||
| Average improved acreage per farm | 421.5 | 514.0 | 397.3 | 116.7 | 116.7 | 119.4 | 103.2 | 37.8 | ||||||||
The average acreage per farm in Beaverhead and Sheridan has increased very slightly in the past ten years, while the improved acreage per farm has decreased. In Hughes and Union, however, there is a decided increase in both the acreage per farm and the improved acreage per farm.