No. 884. U.S. MERCHANT MARINE-VESSELS, BY TYPE AND TONNAGE GROUP: 1965 [As of January 1. Includes Puerto Rico, Guam, and Virgin Islands. Covers documented vessels of 5 net tons or more] Represents zero. Z Less than 500 gross tons. 1 Vessels propelled wholly by sail. 2 Vessels having no propelling power of their own. Source: Treasury Dept., Bureau of Customs; annual report, Merchant Marine Statistics. No. 885. U.S. MERCHANT MARINE-VESSELS BUILT AND REMOVED: 1940 To 1964 [Includes Puerto Rico, Guam, and Virgin Islands. Covers documented vessels of 5 net tons or more both new and redocumented. Year shown is year of build of vessel, not necessarily year of documentation. See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series Q 178-182] Source: Treasury Dept., Bureau of Customs; annual report, Merchant Marine Statistics. No. 886. UNITED STATES FLAG MERCHANT VESSELS, STEAM AND MOTOR: 1940 TO 1966 [Dead-weight tonnage in thousands. As of June 30, except as indicated. Covers seagoing vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over engaged in foreign and domestic trade, and inactive vessels. Excludes special types and vessels employed on Great Lakes] Noncontiguous Num Num- Tons Num ber Tons Num- Tons Num- Tons Tons ber Number Tons Num. ber Tons Number Tons Number Tons Includes ships originally constructed as cargo ships but converted to transports, hospital ships, etc., previously included in cargo classification as follows: 1955, 181 ships of 1,124,000 tons; 1960, 237 ships of 1,427,600 tons; 1966, 189 ships of 1,167,000 tons. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Maritime Administration; Employment Report of United States Flag Merchant Fleet Oceangoing Vessels 1000 Gross Tons and Over, June 1966, and unpublished data. No. 887. MERCHANT VESSELS COMPLETED BY U.S. SHIPYARDS: 1930 To 1966 [Tons in thousands. Represents self-propelled steel vessels of 2,000 gross tons and over. Excludes Alaska and Hawaii] Source: 1930-1964, American Bureau of Shipping, New York, N.Y., annually in The Bulletin. Beginning 1965, Dept. of Commerce, Maritime Administration; annual report, New Ship Construction. No. 888. SHIPBUILDING IN PRIVATE SHIPYARDS-SUMMARY: 1950 TO 1966 [Tons in thousands: Gross tons for commercial vessels, light displacement tons for naval vessels. Covers steel vessels of 1,000 tons or over] No. 889. 11 212 ELE 42 42 334 83 450 101 537 106 573 19 115 39 195 23 158 59 Source: Shipbuilders Council of America, Washington, D.C.; Annual Report, and unpublished data. VESSELS REPAIRED OR CONVERTED IN PRIVATE SHIPBUILDING AND SHIP Source: Shipbuilders Council of America, Washington, D.C.; Annual Report, and unpublished data. No. 890. MERCHANT VESSELS LAUNCHED AND OWNED-WORLD AND UNITED STATES: 1940 To 1966 [Vessels of 100 gross tons and over. Beginning 1945, excludes sailing ships, nonpropelled craft, and all ships built of wood] Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London, England; Register Book, Statistical Tables. No. 891. MERCHANT FLEETS OF THE WORLD, BY TYPE OF VESSEL AND COUNTRY [Vessels of 1,000 gross tons and over. As of December 31. Specified countries have 100 or more ships] Represents zero. X Not applicable. 1 Includes ore carriers and ore/oil carriers. 2 Comprises Bermuda, Borneo, Cayman Island, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Kenya, Nassau, Port of Spain, and Singapore. 3 Includes countries with less than 100 merchant type ships of 1,000 gross tons and over. Source: Dept. of Commerce, Maritime Administration; biennial report. A Statistical Analysis of the World's Merchant Fleets, December 1964. Section 23 Agriculture-Farms, Land, and Finances This section presents statistics concerning the basic structure of our agricultural economy. Included are data on farm population; number, acreage, value, and ownership of farms; land utilization, irrigation, drainage, and soil conservation; farm income, expenditures, and debt; and farmer cooperatives. The principal sources of these data are reports issued by the Bureau of the Census, which conducts a Census of Agriculture every 5 years and Censuses of Irrigation and of Drainage every 10 years; the annual Crop Report and Related Data, Federal Reclamation Projects, issued by the Bureau of Reclamation; and current and annual publications of the Department of Agriculture, among which are Report of Administrator of Soil Conservation Service, Agricultural Statistics, The Farm Income Situation, Farm Real Estate Market Developments, The Balance Sheet of Agriculture, and Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives. Data on farm production, marketings, and imports and exports for crops, livestock, and poultry are in section 24, Agriculture-Production, Marketing, and Trade. A Census of Agriculture, entailing personal enumeration of individual farms, has been taken every 10 years since 1840 and every 5 years since 1920. The first Census, limited in scope, included such items as numbers of livestock, production of wool, value of poultry and dairy products, and production of principal crops. Data on number, acreage, and value of farms were first obtained in the 1850 Census; on farm tenure, in 1880; and on a detailed classification of farmland by use, in 1925. The 1959 Census of Agriculture is the most recent one for which complete data are available; preliminary results from the 1964 Census became available during 1966 and final reports for individual States in 1967. Farms and farmland.-In the course of its history, the Bureau of the Census has used varying definitions of a farm. In the 1959 and 1964 Censuses, places of less than 10 acres were counted as farms if estimated sales of agricultural products for the year amounted to at least $250, and places of 10 or more acres if such sales amounted to at least $50. In the 1950 and 1954 Censuses, places of 3 or more acres were counted as farms if the annual value of agricultural products, whether for home use or for sale, but exclusive of home-garden products, amounted to $150 or more; places of less than 3 acres were counted as farms only if the annual sales amounted to $150 or more. In the Censuses from 1925 to 1945, farms included places of 3 or more acres having any agricultural production, other than from a home garden, and places of less than 3 acres having agricultural production valued at a minimum of $250. For definitions used in earlier Censuses, see U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1959, Vol. II, Introduction. Currently included as farms are such agricultural enterprises as nurseries, greenhouses, hothouses, mushroom houses, and cranberry bogs; excluded are fish farms, fish hatcheries, oyster farms, frog farms, fur farms, apiaries, kennels, game preserves, parks, and the like. In the case of landowners who had one or more tenants, renters, croppers, or managers, the land operated by each was counted as a separate farm. In the 1964 Census, generally all farms with sales of $2,500 or more were classified as commercial. Farms with sales of $50 to $2,499 were classified as commercial if the operator was under 65 years of age and did not work off the farm 100 or more days during the year. Farmland refers to all land under the control of a farm operator and considered as part of his farm, including land not actually under cultivation or used for pasture or grazing. Rent-free land was included as part of the farm only if the operator had sole use of it. Land used for pasture or grazing that was neither owned nor leased by the farm operator, such as national forests, Taylor grazing land, State or other public lands, and some railroad and other privately owned lands, is not included. |