No. 904. IRRIGATION Organizations-Summary: 1920 to 1959

[Data are for 17 Western States (Alaska and Hawali excluded, except as noted) and Louisiana. Relates to multiple farm organizations only. Based on reports of management of organizations. An organization is defined as a group of two or more water users, a company, a corporation, or a governmental district or agency that operates facilities to supply water for irrigation of farm or ranch lands. It may be a formal legal arrangement or an informal cooperative arrangement]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1920, Vol. VII; 1930 and 1940, Irrigation of Agricultural Lands; and U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1980, and 1959, Vol. III.

No. 905. IRRIGATED LAND IN FARMS, BY STATES: 1959 AND 1964 [Figures for acres irrigated represent irrigated cropland harvested plus irrigated pasture. For composition of regions, see fig. I, p. xii. See Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series J 84-85, for U.S. totals]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1959, Vol. II and 1964, prelim inary reports, Series AC 64-P1.

No. 906. FEDERAL IRRIGATION PROJECTS: 1949 To 1965

[Acreage in thousands; value in millions of dollars. "Full irrigation service" applies to irrigable land receiving its sole irrigation supply through Bureau-constructed facilities and to previously irrigated land in non-Federal projects where a substantial part of the facilities was constructed, rehabilitated, or replaced by the Bureau; "supplemental and temporary irrigation service" applies to irrigable land receiving irrigation water through Bureau projects in addition to supply from nonproject sources and to land for which water is delivered under temporary arrangements]

Source: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation; annual report, Crop Report and Related Data, Federal Reclamation Projects.

No. 907.

DRAINAGE ENTERPRISES, BY SIZE GROUPS: 1930 To 1960

- Represents zero. 1 Includes some duplication for some areas in more than 1 enterprise (overlapped). * For 1960, 29 States; largely States with organized drainage districts and other corporate and private enterprises. See text, p. 604.

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1959, Vol. IV.

Source: Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service; Report of Administrator of Soil Conservation Service,

and unpublished data.

No. 904. IRRIGATION ORGANIZATIONS-SUMMARY: 1920 TO 1959

[Data are for 17 Western States (Alaska and Hawaii excluded, except as noted) and Louisiana. Relates to multiple farm organizations only. Based on reports of management of organizations. An organization is defined as a group of two or more water users, a company, a corporation, or a governmental district or agency that operates facilities to supply water for irrigation of farm or ranch lands. It may be a formal legal arrangement or an Informal cooperative arrangement]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1920, Vol. VII; 1930 and 1940, Irrigation of Agricultural Lands; and U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1950, and 1959, Vol. III.

No. 905. IRRIGATED LAND IN FARMS, BY STATES: 1959 AND 1964 [Figures for acres irrigated represent irrigated cropland harvested plus irrigated pasture. For composition of regions, see fig. I, p. xil. See Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series J 84-85, for U.S. totals]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1959, Vol. II and 1964, prelim inary reports, Series AC 64-P1.

No. 906.

FEDERAL IRRIGATION PROJECTS: 1949 TO IM

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No. 904. IRRIGATION ORGANIZATIONS-SUMMARY: 1920 TO 1959

[Data are for 17 Western States (Alaska and Hawaii excluded, except as noted) and Louisiana. Relates to multiple farm organizations only. Based on reports of management of organizations. An organization is defined as a group of two or more water users, a company, a corporation, or a governmental district or agency that operates facilities to supply water for irrigation of farm or ranch lands. It may be a formal legal arrangement or an informal cooperative arrangement]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1920, Vol. VII; 1930 and 1940, Irrigation of Agricultural Lands; and U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1950, and 1959, Vol. III.

No. 905. IRRIGATED LAND IN FARMS, BY STATES: 1959 AND 1964 [Figures for acres irrigated represent irrigated cropland harvested plus irrigated pasture. For composition of regions, see fig. I, p. xii. See Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series J 84-85, for U.S. totals]

Source: Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census; U.S. Census of Agriculture: 1959, Vol. II and 1964, prelim. inary reports, Series AC 64-P1.