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Show FARM INCOMES DID NOT GAIN LAST YEAR The agriculture department has announced an-nounced that for the first time since 1922, the average yearly financial return re-turn of farmers failed to advance during dur-ing 1926, with reports from 13.475 farms in all parts of the country, indicating an average net return of $1133, as compared com-pared with $1297, for 15.350 farmers in 1925. Previous figures were $1205 for 15,103 farmers in 1924; $1020 for 16,183 farmers in 1923, and $917 for 6094 farmers in 1922. The average size of farms reported for 1926 was 315 acres, with an average investment of $16,308. |