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Show Average Farm in Texas Increases to 329 Acres AUSTIN, TEXAS. The average size of a farm in Texas is 329 acres, Charles E. Baughman, chief clerk of the state department of agriculture, agricul-ture, has computed. The number of farms has decreased de-creased in a five-year period and in the same time the average farm size has increased about 55 acres. Baughman's review of the agricultural agri-cultural situation shows the dethronement de-thronement of King Cotton. In a five-year period, cotton acreage decreased de-creased 1,909,664 acres. Peak of cotton cultivation was 17,700,000 acres in 1926 and the acreage in cotton in 1941 is 8,500,000 acres. Cotton farming has declined more swiftly than other farming. Baughman Baugh-man said in a discussion of the statistics. sta-tistics. While the decrease in the total number of farms (1934-1939) was 83,015, in the same period the number oi cotton farms decreased 91,429. "Two-thirds of the farmers employ em-ploy the use of only one-third of the land," Baughman said, "while one-third of the farmers employ the use of two-thirds of the land. Around 428,000 people, whose family fam-ily heads were formerly employed in the production of cotton, have turned to other work, while some 400,000 people have left the farms altogether." |