TABLE 5

AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AND PRODUCTIVITY,
 1910-1960


 Agriclt. Production/ Index of
 Prdtion. Persons Engaged Output/
 (mills No. of Man-Hour
 of cnst Persons Cnst. Index (1940=100)
 1954 Engaged 1954 (1940=
 Year dollars) (1,000) Dollars 100) Farm Total


 1960 29,640 7,057 4,200 236 319
 1950 23,499 9,926 2,367 133 169
 1940 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, p. 52, Table 20.


 TABLE 6

 VALUE OF SALES AND HOME CONSUMPTION OF FARM
 PRODUCTS AND VALUE PER WORKER, 1860-1900


 Sales and Home
 Consumption of
 Farm Products Persons
 (millions of Engaged in
 dollars, 1910- Agriculture Value per
Year 1914 dollars) (thousands) Worker

1900 5,903 10,912 533
1890 4,604 9,938 463
1880 3,784 8,585 441
1870 2,436 6,850 353
1860 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, New Jersey: Princeton University Press,
1960), p. 265, 269.