Census of Agriculture: 1940

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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture handbook : descriptions and illustrations of the uses of agriculture census statistics in education, business, research, and visual analysis ; with explanations of the technique of tabulation and procedures
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Agriculture
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1942-1943
I. First and second series, state reports. Statistics for counties. Farms and farm property, with related information for farms and farm operations, livestock and livestock products, and crops. pt. 1. New England, middle Atlantic, east north central. pt. 2. West north central. pt. 3. South Atlantic. pt. 4. East south central. pt. 5. West south central. pt. 6. Mountain and Pacific -- II. Third series, state reports. Statistics for counties. Value of farm products, farms classified by major source of income, farms classified by value of products. pt. 1. The Northern states. pt. 2. The Southern states. pt. 3. The Western states -- III. General report. Statistics by subjects. Special poultry report.
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Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : agriculture, United States summary, first series : uses of land, principal crops and classes of livestock with statistics for geographic divisions and States
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1941
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Irrigation of agricultural lands / Tabular and graphic presentation of specified irrigation census statistics.
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: Cross-line acreage / A special study ; farms reporting and acreage by place of enumeration and by location of acreage, with relationship to all farms, by counties, with a summary for the United States ; 1940 and 1935.
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940. Population and housing. Families. Characteristics of rural-farm families; regions and divisions
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: Ranking agricultural counties. The rank of the leading counties in the United States in agriculture and agricultural products, 1940 and 1939, with comparisons, 1930 and 1929
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940 : agriculture, United States summary, second series : farm mortgages, taxes, labor facilities, expenditures, and miscellaneous farm information; fruits, vegetables, and minor crops with statistics for geographic divisions and States
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1942
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: abandoned or idle farms ; number and acreage, with classification of those reporting acreage by cause of nonoperation and by year of abandonment. Statistics for counties and a summary for the United States
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Special study plantations : based upon tabulations from the sixteenth census of the United States
United States. Bureau of the Census
[Washington, D.C.?] : [U.S. G.P.O.?], [1943?]
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animals

A Graphic summary of farm animals and animal products : (based largely on the census of 1940)
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1943
Miscellaneous publication (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) no. 530.
Supersedes Miscellaneous publication no. 269, A graphic summary of farm animals and animal products (based largely on the census of 1930 and 1935) by O.E. Baker. 1939.
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: Special poultry report. Statistics by geographic divisions and states for poultry of all kinds on hand and raised; by counties for chickens and chicken egg production, by number of chickens on hand; and by counties for farms reporting chickens and turkeys raised, by numbers raised / Prepared under the supervision of Zellmer R. Pettet, chief statistician for agriculture.
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1942
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: Cows milked and dairy products. Number of cows milked, milk produced, disposition of dairy products, and number of cows kept mainly for milk production, classified by number of cows milked, by counties; with related data for other classes of livestock and livestock products, for the states and for the United States / Prepared under the supervision of Zellmer R. Pettet, chief statistician for agriculture
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1942
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crops

A Graphic summary of farm crops : (based largely on the census of 1940)
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1943
Miscellaneous publication (United States. Dept. of Agriculture) no. 512
Supersedes Miscellaneous publication no. 267. A graphic summary of farm crops (based largely on the census of 1930 and 1935) by O.E. Baker and A.B. Genung
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Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture. Special cotton report. Farms reporting, acreage, and production and value of farm products by number of bales harvested / With statistics for counties and a summary for the United States. Prepared under the supervision of Zellmer R. Pettet, chief statistician for agriculture
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1943
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Sixteenth census of the United States : 1940 : Agriculture: crop-sharing contracts : memorandum regarding legal relations and rights of parties when land owned by one is cultivated by the other under agreement to share the crops / prepared by James H. Graves. Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing. Office, 1943
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outlying territories and possessions

Sixteenth census of the United States, 1940. Agriculture. Territories and possessions : reports on agriculture in the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii and the following possessions, Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands of the United States
Census of agriculture (1940)
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943
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race

Sixteenth census of the United States: 1940 : Agriculture: Value of farm products by color and tenure of farm operator. Statistics, by color and tenure of farm operator, on the value of farm products sold, traded, or used by farm households
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1944
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Farms of nonwhite farm operators, number of farms, land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of land and buildings, by tenure: censuses of 1945 and 1940. Ser. NA.
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington
no. 1-14; Dec. 11, 1946-Mar. 4, 1948
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maps

County lines / compiled by Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ; from material furnished by U.S. Census Bureau ; on base compiled by U.S. Geological Survey
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
[Washington] : Bureau of Agricultural Economics, [1940]
1 map : col. ; 62 x 98 cm.
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[Outline map of the United States, showing county lines] / County lines compiled by Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, from material furnished by U.S. Census Bureau, on base compiled by U.S. Geological Survey
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
[Washington] : Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1940
1 map : col. ; 41 x 66 cm.
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[Outline map showing United States county boundaries] / compiled by Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ; from material furnished by U.S. Census Bureau ; on base compiled by U.S. Geological Survey
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
[Washington] : Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1940 (U.S. Government. Printing Office, 1949)
1 map : col. ; 42 x 66 cm.
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[Outline map showing United States county boundaries] / compiled by Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture ; from material furnished by U.S. Census Bureau ; on base compiled by U.S. Geological Survey
United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
[Washington] : Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1940 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1952)
1 map : col. ; 42 x 66 cm.
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Percent change in size of farms, [cartographic material] by counties of the United States: 1940-1964. Prepared by Geography Division, in cooperation with the Agriculture Division, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
United States. Bureau of the Census
Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970
col. map 66 x 99 cm.
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