12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, December 30, 1955
Lancaster Farming Statistics
Highlights compiled from 1954‘Census of Agriculture,
Preliminary, “Farms, Farm Characteristics, Farm Products
U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
Subject to revision.
FARMS, ACREAGE, and VALUE
1954 1950
Farms, number 7,951 7,952
JProportion in farms ... 82 4%
'Approximate land area, (acres) 604,000
Land in farms, acres ... • . 498,206 495,000
Average size of farm, acres . .62.7 62.3
Value of land, buildings, average
per farm $ 26,713 $ 20,527
per acre ... • $ 435.15 $ 324.29
Land in farms according to use:
Cropland harvested, farms
reporting 7,205 7,385
Acres 334,294 325,792
Cropland used for pasture:
Farms reporting 1,521 2,146
Acres 17,299' 23,965
Cropland harvested and not
pastured:
Farms reporting .' . .. 1,141 1,546
Acres 10,800 16,173
Woodland pastured;
Farms reporting ... 696 572
Acres . .... 6,822 5,023
Woodland not pastured:
Farms reporting 2,401 2,617
Farms by Economic Class in Lancaster County.
Value of Products Sold: 1950 1954
$25,000 or'more 455 615
$lO,OOO - $24,999 2,503 2,516
$5,000 - $9,999 1,867 1,765
$2,500 - $4,999 931 870
$1,200 - $2,499 717 670
$ 250 - $1,199 249 230
Acres 37,0447 38,594
Other pastures (not cropland and
not woodland)
Farms reporting 4,459 3,959
Acres 66,747 57,185
■lmproved Pastures;
1 Farms reporting 1,530
Acres 25,137
Other land (house lots, roads * '
wasteland, etc.):
Farms Reporting 7,444 7,321
Acres 25,200 28,768
Irrigated land in farms;
Farms reporting 252 74
Acres 3,342 433
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Land in cover crops turned under
- for green manure:
Farms reporting 1,494
Acres, 1954 20,171
Cropland used for grain or row
crops farmed on contour
Farms reporting 890
Acres •• 42,698
FARM OPERATORS ‘
Residing in farm operated 1954 1950
Operators reporting 7,539 7,399
Not residing on farm operated* -
Operators reporting -.. 306 252
SPECIFIED FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT
(Represents estimates for all farms made on basis
on sample reporting on 20 per cent of farms)
1954 1950
Telephone, farms reporting .._ 5,627 4,551
Electricity, farms reporting ... 6,887 6,583
Television set, farms reporting 2,656
Piped water, farms reporting ' 7,027
Home freezer farms reporting 4,097 2,300
Electric pig brooder 190
Power feed grinder 1,602
Milking machines 2,551 * 2,239
Grain combines, farms report . 1,617 1,237
Number . 1,617 1,269
Corn pickers, farms reporting 1,171 639
Number 1,176 639
Pick-up hay .balers, farms
reporting 1,752 * 877
Number 1,757 - 892.
Field forage harvesters, farms
reporting and number 471
Artificial ponds, reservoirs and
earth tanks, farms reporting 801
Number - 903
SPECIFIED CROPS HARVESTED "
Corn: 1954 1950
For all purposes
farms reporting 6,502 6,626"
Acres 102,872 94,809
Harvested for grain, farms
reporting 6,375 6,519
■Acres- 81,652 77,196
Bushels 4,460,512
Cut for silage, farms reporting 2,871 2,514
Acres 20,629 16,669
1954 1950
Tons green jweight 204,507 156,780
Wheat, threshed or combined
Farms reporting ”... 5,342 5,479
Acres 61,721 70,868
Bushels 2,191,624 1,841,288
Oats threshed or combined
Farms reporting 1,836 812
Acres 11,397 4,681
Bushels r ? 544,600 158,721
Barley threshed or combined
Farms reporting 2,369 2,143
Acres 17,548 15,904
- Bushels '907,808 698,151
Clover or timothy cut for hay
Farms reporting 5,049 5,516
Acres 65,885 - 71,754
Tons 123,528 126,110
Lancaster County
Following is a comparison of
number, size and value of Lan
caster County farms from 1950
(to 1954 as shown in the 1954
census of agriculture—prelim
inary
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1954 1950
Number of farms 7,951 7,952
Acres in farms 498,206 495,500
Average size of
farms .... 62 7 62 3
Under 10 acres 1,371 1,249
10 Ito 29 acres 1,292 1,370
30 to 40 'acres 1,042 1,803
50 to 60 acres 1,229 1,255
70 to 99 acres . 1,432 1,480
100 to 139 acres 987 966
140 to 179 acres 315 283
180 to 219 acres 131 123
220 to 259 acres 65 57
260 to 499 acres 78 76
500 (to 990 acres 7 7
1,000 acres and
over . 2 3
“MON¥”
A tourist had visited an Indian
reservation to buy same curios,
and was talking to an Indian
Chief. The tourwt asked about the
size of the Indian’s family, and
was amazed wlhen the chief said!
that he had 14 children
‘Well,” Said the tourist, “'with
.a family that large, don’t you
have an endless stream of squab
bles and arguments’”
“Oh, nb.” the Indian replied.
“’We’re just one bigiHopi family.”
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sponsibility to iprovide food sup
plies for the Army, Navy. Air
Force and Marines.
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Vegetable Crop
In Pennsylvania
Shows Decline
HARRISBURG, Value of all
vegetable .crops produced an Pen
eylvama this past season was
down $1,604,000 from last year,
Dr. William L. Henning, State
Secretary of Agriculture, an
oiouced today -
Combined production oif the
twelve leading vegetable crops
for fresh market and the nine
crops for processing totaled
301,800 tons an 1955 21 per
cent below the 380,400 tons har
vested last year, Department sur
veys showed.
$42 Million Decline
The dron in value —'added to
declines in farm value of field
and fru.it crops due to" lower
prices and yields'obtained by far
mers— makes a total decline of
nearlv $42 mn’luon this year
pared with last, Dr Henning said.
Field crops on which farmers
'suffered greatest declines in value
potatoes, com =rd ,wheat.
Most of the 1955 reduction m
vegetable tonnage occiirred m the
(crepe igrown for canning and
freezing. The processing tonnage
came to 145,800 tons compared
with 214,700 tons produced in
1954, the survey revealed Practic
ally all of this decrease is at
tributed to the low production
of tomatoes, down 53,000 tons
from the same number of acres
harvested in 1954, due to ad
verse weather conditions.
The 12 fresh market crops to
taled 166,000 tons in -1055 against
168,700 tons in 1954, mot includ
ing strawberries
Harvested Acreage off 1-5%
Aggregate value of all vege
table crows in Pennsylvania this
year totaled $18,185,000 compared
with last year’s total of $19,879,-
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For the processing crops the
total was $6,721,000 or 20 ner cent
(bel'SW the $8,450,000 in 1954.
The value of fresh market
(crops excluding strawberries —
totaled $11,464,000 or about the
same as the $11,429,000 of 1954.
Total harvested acreage for
both fresh market and processing
crops is 'estimated at 102,820
acres, 15 per cent below the 1954
total of 1104,4000 acres.
IDsr Hugo Theorem, a leading
(Swedish biochemist, was awarded
ft.he 1955 Nobel prize in medicine
(for didcoveries dealing wi% the
nature and action of oxidation
enzymes. . i
Albouit one-fifKh of 'the nation’s
college 'graduates now (became
teachers. i
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