Rosomces 
     
    
   
   
    
     are 201 acres or more. The land owned is 97.23 p. c. 
     
     (1,160,118 acres) and the land leased or rented 2.77 
     
     per cent. (33.040 acres) of the whole area occupied as 
     
     farms ; while of the small area occupied as lots (1.350 acres) 
     
     84.52 p. 0. (1,141 acres) is owned and 15.48 p. c. (209 
     
     acres) is leased or rented. Almost the whole extent of the 
     
     land in lots is in an improved state, with 88 p. c. (1,155 
     
     acres, of it in crops and pasture and 11 p. c. (149 acres) in 
     
     orchards and gardens. The land in farms comprises 
     
     60.76 p. c. (724,978 acres) in an improved state and 39.24 p. 
     
     c. (468,180 acres) in an unimproved state. Of the improved 
     
     land about 62 p. c. (447,094 acres) is in field crops, 05 p. c. 
     
     (3,564 acres) in orchard and garden, and 284,229 acres in 
     
     pasture. Forest plantations cover only 28 acres, and 
     
     ornamental trees have been planted on farms to the number 
     
     of 71,394 or an average of less than six for each farm. The 
     
     number of acres in orchard is 3,199, of which 97 acres is 
     
     on lots. 
     
    

    
     Agricultural According to the census of 1901, the total 
     
     values value of farm property is $30,434,089, of which 
     
     land represents $15,148,064 (49.78. p. c.); buildings 
     
     $ 7,840,444 ( 25.76 p. c.) ; implements and machinery 
     
     $2,618,597 (8.60 p. c.) ; and live stock, including pure-bred 
     
     animals, $4,826,984 (15.86 p. c.). Reduced to a farm of the 
     
     average size (90.74 acres) the value of the property is $2,314 
     
     whereof $1,748 is for land and buildings, $199 for imple- 
     
     ments and machinery, and $367 for live stock. 
     
    

    
     On lots of less than five acres, the value of agricultural 
     
     products was $54,366 or $62.85 per lot, which is 28.22 p. c. 
     
     of the $192,624 valuation of lands, buildings, implements 
     
     and machinery, and live Stock. The rent value of leased 
     
     lots comprising 15% p. c. of the land occupied, is $5.09 per 
     
     acre. 
     
    

    
     Farm The total gross value of farm products for 1901 
     
     Products was $4,764,674 for crops (64.27 p. c.) ; and 
     
    
   
   
    
     $2,648,623 for animal products (35.73 p. c.); making an 
     
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