Title:  Value of farm output
Column Name:  farout
Span:  1870-1890
Units:  Dollars
Format:  Integer

Farm output - 1870
The values of products, including betterments and additions to stock, represent the value of products on the farm, rather than at market or on railroad. Values are estimates reported by the farmers themselves for the year ending 1 June 1870.

Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Census Office. Ninth Decennial Census of the United States, 1870. Volume III, The Statistics of the Wealth and Industry of the United States. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872.


Farm output - 1880
The values of products on the farm (rather than at market or on railroad) are estimates reported by the farmers themselves.


Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Census Office. Tenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1880. Volume III, Report on the Productions of Agriculture in the United States as Returned at the Tenth Census. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883.


Farm output - 1890
Total values of farm products are aggregations of the values reported by the farmers themselves, and are to large extent estimations. The values of crops are for 1889, while values of livestock are for the year ending June 1, 1890.

Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Census Office. Eleventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1890. Volume V, Report on the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States at the Eleventh Census. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.