165
TABLE 5
AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY,
1910-1960
Year
Agriclt.
Prdtion.
(mills
of cnst
1954
dollars)
No. of
Persons
Engaged
(1,000)
Production/
Persons Engaged
Index of
Output/
Man-Hour
(1940=100)
Farm Total
Cnst.
1954
Dollars
Index
(1940=
100)
i960
29,640
7,057
4,200
236
319
1950
23,499
9,926
2,367
133
169
19^0
19,573
10,979
1,783
100
100
1930
17,497
12,497
1,400
79
79
1920
16,121
13,432
1,200
67
73
1910
13,900
13,555
1,025
57
67
Source: Raw Materials in the U.S.
Economy:
1900-1966. d. 52. Table 20.
TABLE 6
VALUE OF SALES AND HOME CONSUMPTION
PRODUCTS AND VALUE PER WORKER, i860
OF FARM
-I9OO
Sales and Home
Consumption of
Farm Products
(millions of
dollars, 1910-
1914 dollars)
Persons
Engaged in
Agriculture
Value per
Year
(thousands)
Worker
1900
5,903
10,912
533
1890
4,604
9,938
463
1880
3,784
8,585
441
1870
2,43 6
6,850
353
i860
1,985
6,208
320
Source: Based on statistics in Marvin W. Towne
and Wayne D. Rasmussen, "Farm Gross Product and Gross
Investment in the Nineteenth Century," in Trends in the
American Economy in the Nineteenth Century, NBER
(Princeton, ewJerseyl Princeton University Press,
i960), p. 265, 269.