The Farm Journal Illustrated Rural Directory of Monroe County, New ...

Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · County Directories Collection
Peaceful, Prosperous and Profitable.
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MONROE COUNTY
SOME FACTS AND FIGURES
Mare, as a rule, of more than average size, about 12 per cent, being under
OXROE COUNTY with a total of 5,971 farms in an area
of 663 square miles, is distinctly a farm county. More than
90 per cent, of the entire area of the county is in its farms,
and more than 89 per cent, is under cultivation. The farms
ten acres. They are, almost without exception, profitable and correspondingly
valuable. The farmers, as a class, are the most prosperous
folks in the county. In view of the number of farms, that is in itself
a statement of the wealth of this section.
The farm population of Monroe County is almost exclusively
native-born white.
It is interesting to note the number of farms in the county operated
by their owners. Of this class there are 4,322, or 72 per cent. One
thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, or 44 per cent, of them are
reported free of mortgage debt. This is an exceptionally large percentage.
Of the balance, the remarkably low mortgage indebtedness of
only 34 per cent of the entire valuation is carried. Even in the absence
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