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AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES. 173
Summary of Texas Agricultural Statistics, 1910-1935.
Below is a statistical review of Texas agricultural industries and production for the last
five census enumerations. The federal census of agriculture was taken each ten years until
1920. Since that date there has been an enumeration every five years, the last having been
that of 1935.
1935 Census. 1930 Census. 1925 Census. 1920 Census. 1910 Census.
Farms, Farm Acreage, Value--
Number of farms.............. 501,017 495,489 465,646 436,033 417,770
Farms operated by:
All owners....... .............. 211,440 190,515 182,976 201,210 195,863
Full owners................. 172,709 152,852 156,090 171,427 167,515
Part owners ................ 38,731 37,663 26,886 29,783 28,348
Managers .................. 3,474 3,314 1,445 2,514 2,332
All tenants................... 286,103 301,660 281,225 232,309 219,575
Croppers ................... 76,468 105,122 91,317 68,381
Value of farms (land, bldgs.).$2,573,704,972 $3,597,406,986 $3,045,270,798 $3,700,173,319 $1,843,208,395
Average value per farm..... $5,137 $7,260 $6,540 $8,486 $5,311
Average value per acre...... $18.70 $28.85 $27.77 $32.45 $14.53
All land in farms (acres)...... 137,597,389 124,707,130 109,674,410 114,020,621 112,435,067
Average acreage per farm... 274.6 251.7 235.5 261.5 269.1
Farm Land According to Use (Acres)-
Crop land harvested........... 25,429,158 30,634,370 27,074,869 25,027,773 18,384,910
*Crop failure ................. 6,488,414 1,803,574 1,229,460 # $
Crop land idle or fallow....... 3,591,239 2,328,222 1,064,387 $ $
Plowable pasture................. 7,786,697 11,156,355 13,617,251 $
Woodland pasture............. 23,648,606 14,449,011 11,230,062 14,532,913 3
Other pasture ................. 67,060,969 61,337,071 50,220,549
Woodland not pastured........ 1,487,121 1,240,472 1,460,762 $ $
All other land in farms........ 2,105,185 1,758,055 3,777,070 $ 4
Land available for crops....... 43,295,508 45,922,529 42,985,867
(Harvested, failure, idle, fallow and plowable pasture.)
Number of Livestock on Farms-
Horses and colts ............... 686,442 t748,703 837,969 991,362 t1,125,834
Mules and mule colts ......... 889,329 t1,036,177 1,010,339 845,932 t659,975
tCattle .-. ............... 7,222,369 5,583,471 5,845,918 6,156,715 6,934,586
Cows and heifers, 2 yrs., over 3,834,464 2,868,546 3,081,759 3,014,945 #
Sheep and lambs .............. 7,026,543 7,021,234 3,137,129 2,573,485 1,808,709
Hogs and pigs.................. 1,384,134 1,561,469 1,166,253 2,225,558 2,336,363
Selected Crops Harvested-
Corn for all purposes....Acres 4,637,435 4,250,747 3,686,581 $ $
Corn for grain..........Acres 4,479,780 4,076,206 3,615,583 4,748,655 5,130,052
Bushels 38,017,875 66,251,026 54,143,427 108,377,282 75,498,695
Wheat threshed........ Acres 3,091,870 2,969,511 1,311,776 2,414,903 326,176
Bushels 26,298,423 44,077,464 20,881,516 36,427,255 2,560,891
Oats threshed ............Acres 1,373,035 1,148,110 1,212,817 1,862,933 440,001
Bushels 32,012,907 27,260,261 36,052,273 63,989,423 7,034,617
Oats cut, fed, unthreshed Acres 240,816 183,030 193,890 $ t
Barley threshed........ Acres 123,883 193,862 166,126 77,780 3,888
Bushels 1,755,351 3,743,677 2,841,500 2,188,250 52,438
Rice (rough) threshed.. Acres 110,500 105,616 145,926 164,481 237,586
Bushels 5,479,520 5,158,544 6,403,061 5,306,369 8,991,745
Grain sorghum (for gr'n) Acres 1,406,363 1,700,713 1,199,734 1,482,663 573,884
Bushels 9,642,432 23,768,386 23,107,075 36,456,343 5,860,444
Cotton ..................Acres 10,015,375 16,813,568 16,658,356 11,522,537 9,930,179
Bales 2,306,424 3,793,392 4,856,142 2,971,752 2,455,174
Sugar cane, all purposes.Acres 9,817 6,719 6,921 18,407 34,315
Tons 47,296 $ $ 124,493 307,502
Irish potatoes........... Acres 50,540 39,786 17,057 27,263 36,092
Bushels 3,011,730 2,773,216 1,168,079 1,707,251 2,235,983
Sweet potatoes...........Acres 64,584 44,652 24,854 68,142 42,010
Bush3ls 3,182,721 3,392,764 1,433,217 5,838,879 2,730,083
All hay and sorghum for
forage ............... Acres 3,590,061 2,589,538 2,024,587 2,240,771 621,381
Tons 2,346,107 3,073,338 2,528,415 3,474,140 569,529
*The acreage of crop failure does not represent the total acreage of crop which failed, but only the
acreage of land in crops which failed and on which no other crop was harvested in 1934.
tExcludes animals under 3 months of age.
SExact classification not reported.
Farms, Ownership, Tenantry, Values, Land Uses, by Counties.
From federal census of 1935. Acreage figures refer to preceding crop year:
Farms operated by I
County- ' .MI :o
S -- 0 F. .,. -,- I --.> - G.. t m w
Anderson .......4,417 1,640 229 2,543 $7,215,601 462,569 104.7 105,420 60,698 207,913
Andrews ....... 85 20 18 - 39 3,658,402 704,329 8,286.2 1,436 5,807 7,453
Angelina. ......2,802 1,529 82 1,189 4,206,290 215,077 76.8 52,886 15,419 74,531
Aransas ........ 169 72 4 88 813,040 98,417 582.3 2,482 1,722 5,046
Archer ......... 744 206 143 373 7,319,394 572,867 770.0 59,374 21,485 90,341
Armstrong ..... 456 6 102 178 7,383,635 573,905 1,258.6 125,491 39,147 213,890
Atascosa .......2,531 862 212 1,450 12,012,015 690,715 272.9 131,369 33,918 189,224
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