Show FARMS IN IOWA DECLINE IN NUMBER W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Nov 2 During During the thelast thelast thelast last decade Iowa has shown material de decreases decreases decreases de- de creases in the total number of its farms farmers farmers- and the extent of farm acreage but hut these losses are overshadowed by the enormous increases in the value of farm farmland land implements and buildings s and the expenditures for farm labor These facts are set forth In a statement issued by bythe bythe bythe the census bureau regarding Iowa's agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural statistics derived from the re recent recent recent re- re cent census o of agriculture as a part pert of the thirteenth decennial census This falling off in the number of farms tho the statement says is one that has been by all students of agriculture in Iowa and is believed to correspond cor cor- respond nd quite closely with an anticipated decrease in the thc rural population in the i ista sta state te I j The Thc farm acreage reported in 1910 Is is' is as compared with in 1900 a decrease of acres or 19 per cent |