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Census Reveals
Farms Decrease Here
A total of 384 farms was counted in Rappahannock court' ty during the 1964 Census of Agriculture, the U. S. Department of Commerce's Bureau ' . of the Census reports. In the last previous census of Agriculture (1959), the total counted in the county was 479 farms. The 1964 total is published in a preliminary report on the county just issued. The report also shows that average farm size in the county was 251.7 acres and that the average value of the county’s farms (land and buildings) in 1964 was $34,879. Other important county statistics in the report are; 1. Value of all farm products sold by farms in the county in 1964, $2,156,506; in 1959, $2,821,397. 2. Value of all crops sold by county far ms in 1964, $1,022 749; in 1959, $1,357,362. 3. Value of all livestock and livestock products sold by county farms in 1964, $1,133, 537; in 1959, $1,464,035. Information obtained for the first time in an agricultural census included the amount of income received by the county’s farmers (*) from recreational services as well as data on the use of pest control chemicals inthecoun-' ty In 1964. • Data withheld to avoid disclosure of information for individual farms. State; Virginia A Census of Agriculture is taken every 5 years in years ending in *4" and *9" to gather information on the nation’s agricultural resources and production. The data are needed to make decisions affecting many segments of the U. S. economy. The 1964 farm census was the 18th in a series that began in 1840. The preliminary report for the county contains more than 500 facts about agriculture in the county. Among additional facts It contains are the number of farms by size, type, and economic class; the number erf farm operators by method of tenure, age, color, off-farm work, and number of school years completed; ' land in farms by use and ty land-use practices; data on> equipment and facilities;farm expenditures; number of hired workers; and number of farms reporting poultry and livestock production and those reporting crop production by acres and quantities as well as sales. NOTE: Single copies are availlble for 10 cents from the Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C.20233 or from any field office of the Department of Commerce. These are located in major cities.
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