FARM AREAS AND VALUES.
Ord, Neb.
Oblige some of your readers by giving the cultivated area of the United States; the number and value of farms, farm implements, stock, etc. Also specify the States and Territories having over 500,000 acres each under cultivation.
Henry P. Maiden.
Answer.—The total number of improved acres in the United States, according to the census of 1880, was 284,771,042, embraced in 4,008,907 farms. The value of farms, including lands, fences, and buildings, was $10,197,096,776; value of live stock, $1,500,464,609; cost of building and repairing fences, $77,763,473; cost of fertilizers purchased, $28,586,397. Estimated value of all farm productions (sold, consumed, or on hand), $2,213,402,564.
The following States and Territories had each more than 500,000 acres under cultivation;
| Alabama | 6,375,706 |
| Arkansas | 3,595,603 |
| California | 10,669,698 |
| Colorado | 616,169 |
| Connecticut | 1,642,188 |
| Dakota | 1,150,413 |
| Delaware | 746,958 |
| Florida | 947,640 |
| Georgia | 8,204,720 |
| Illinois | 26,115,154 |
| Indiana | 13,933,738 |
| Iowa | 19,866,541 |
| Kansas | 10,739,566 |
| Kentucky | 10,731,683 |
| Louisiana | 2,739,972 |
| Maine | 3,484,908 |
| Maryland | 3,342,700 |
| Mass’ch’setts | 2,128,311 |
| Michigan | 8,296,862 |
| Minnesota | 7,246,693 |
| Mississippi | 5,216,937 |
| Missouri | 16,745,031 |
| Nebraska | 5,504,702 |
| N. Hampshire | 2,308,112 |
| New Jersey | 2,096,297 |
| New York | 17,717,862 |
| N. Carolina | 6,481,151 |
| Ohio | 18,081,091 |
| Oregon | 2,198,645 |
| Pennsylvan’a | 13,423,007 |
| S. Carolina | 4,132,000 |
| Tennessee | 8,496,556 |
| Texas | 12,650,314 |
| Vermont | 3,286,461 |
| Virginia | 8,510,113 |
| W. Virginia | 3,792,327 |
| Wisconsin | 9,162,528 |
Illinois leads the column with nearly double the cultivated area of the Keystone State; Iowa comes next, and Ohio, New York, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Texas, in the order here given, come trudging after. The next census will make marked changes in the above list.