220 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI

there were 260,473 farms in Missouri, of which 141,794 were
owner-operated. Statistics for taxes and the value of land
and buildings were obtained for 118,663 of the latter. In
other words, the sample for Missouri includes about 46%, of
all of the farms in the state and almost 849, of the owneroperated
 farms. The proportion of total acreage in farms
included in the sample was approximately 459% of the total
farm acreage for the state and 849, of the total acreage of
owner-operated farms.
Table 72 shows the data for the value of land and buildings
and taxes on farm land and buildings. The third column in
this table shows taxes per $100 of value of those farms in-Tasie

 72: Taxes AND VaLue oF OwNER-OPERATED
Farms FoR WHICH TAXES WERE REPORTED, BY STATES,
1024

Source: United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 172
Computed by National Industrial Conference Board

Geographical Group
Stata

United States. ...
New England....... oo.
Mane. cs suppers
New Hampshire . . ..
Vermont. ...........
Massachusetts. .. ....
Rhode Island. .......
Connecticut. ........
Atlantic. ............
New York. .........
New Jersey. ........
Pennsylvania. .......
East North Central. .........
Ohio. .......covnn..
Indiana............
linois............
Michigan...........
Wisconsin. ..........
West North Central. .........
Minnesota. .........
loma. ves soenenss
Missouri. ...........
North Dakota. ......
South Dakota. ......
Nebraska. ..........
Yansas. .

Middle y

Value of
Lands and
Buildings
in Thousand
Dollars

1,820,2/
694,414
177.314
75,185
103,444
195,656
17,373
125,442,
1,794,203)
917,847
156,709
719,647
5,078,174
1,021,434
698.354
1,241,066
813.278
1,304,042
5,947,602
1,149,322
(833,025
883,390
291,348
359,323
803,389
£07307

Taxes
Reported
on Farm
Land and
Buildings
mn
Thousand
Dollare

11.9
3,175
1,559
1,757
3.496 |
214
1,571!
28,003
13,515
2.673
11,815
73,971
16,602
13,858
10,916
14,939
17.656
“1,133
13,943
17,487
6.915
4,720
$131
6,411

Taxes pe
$100 of
Value

Index
Numbers
United
States =
100

22
70
79
2.07
70
79
73
25
“6
47
‘1
‘4
45
1.63
1.98
nO

00.0
139.3
146.7
169.7
139.3
‘46.7
100.8
102.5
27.9
-20.5
140.2
134.4
119.7
133.6
162.3
72.1
150.8
110.7
84.4
99.2
77.9
63.9
132.8
94.3
66.4
a7

153
121 |
05
1.67
i

:
1

Index
Numbers
roup =
106

100.0
105.3
121.8
100.0
105.3
724
73.5
100.0
94.2
109.6
105.1
100.0
111.6
135.6
60.3
126.0
2.5
100.0
117.5
92.2
75.7
157.3
111.7
78.6
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