Show WHICH STATE HAS MOST FARMS tAR 1 If people were to be asked what state has the most farms we do not believe one in ten thousand could answer or come anywhere near answering But the claim is made macle that it is Missouri l Within her borders are farms which average acres to the farm The improved land to each farm averages five seventy acres or 2 per cent According to the report of the thc department of commerce and Ind labor the farms in Missouri i are arc worth an acre Ohio has farms which average e eighty-eight eighty acres each cacho Illinois has farms of acres each Iowa loAva has farms which average acres Kansas farms of acres each In the United States the farms average acres but only 50 per cent of them all is improved land Professor Mumford 1 of the University of Missouri i has prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared some sonic interesting statistics regarding the the- state While Missouri i is con considered a great mule state yet there ar are arc four times as many horses as there are mules in Missouri The rhe equipment according ac according ac- ac c- c cording to Professor Mumford Mum ord for each ench farm is fifteen cattle four horses one mule twenty six hogs five sheep and a fraction of a goat In Missouri i the money made on each ac acre c of improved land was Avas for last y year ar |