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TasLg 64: GENERAL Property TaxEs AND NET RENT PER
AcrE oN SELECTED Farms! in Sout Dakora, 1919-1926
Source: South Dakota State Callegy, Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin
0. 232

YVaay

0.)
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
925
QE

Average?

Number of |
Farms

Number of
Acres

Net Rent?
per Acre
before Taxes

Tax per Acre?

Per Cent of Net
Rent before
Taxes Paid in
Tacha

152
132
133
192
164
on

60,066
47.817
49.203
48,974
49.850
64,249
44 274
I vid

2

bry

76
1.30
1.68
2.01
3.33
3.16
7 38

$0.7?
0.74
0.71
0.71
0.66
0.69
0.72
0.71

16.1
42.0
54.6
42.3
32.8
20.7
22.8
29.8

«1 50399 243 28.45
t In Brookings, Beadle, Day, Hamlin, and Pennington Counties.
2, 3,4, 5, Same as footnotes 2 8 4 5, Table 62.

out the period 1919 through 1923. In Michigan taxes per
acre showed a tendency to decline after 1921. While it is
true that taxes per acre as shown in the Missouri table were
$0.81 in 1921 as compared with $0.73 for 1922 and $0.75 for
1923, it is doubtful that there has been a decline since 1923
in the Missouri counties combarable with the decline in

TaBLE 65: GENERAL ProPErRTY TAX AND NET RENT PER
Acre oN SELECTED Farms! in Micuican, 1919-1926
Sources: Michigan State College, Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical
Bulletin No. 91, and United States Department of Agriculture, Technical
Bulletin No. 172

Year

1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1974

Number of
Farms

J21
192
415
656
578
677
M10

“Ye

Number of
Acres

60,654
43,956
46.546
76,483
63.954
75570
0177
63.394

Net Rent
per Acre
before Taxes

2.99
2.17
2.66
2.25
244
N49
rn

Tax per Acre

29
1.49
1.53
1.49
151
141
145
1 a7

Yer Cent of Net
Rent before
Taxes Paid in
Taxes

Vil
49.8
70.5
56.0
67.1
57.8
54.3
54.8

Average _ 6877 _ 524
1 Includes farms in all counties in the lower peninsula except Cheboygan, Crawford,
 Oscodd, Roscommon, Montmorency, Kalkaska, and Otsego Counties.
2 These farms reported for each of the years 1925 and 1926.
8 Computed from the two preceding columns.