TABLE III.--_Value of land and buildings, with the per cent of the total represented by the value of buildings, June 1, 1900._ Land and improvements (except buildings) $6,649,690 00 Buildings 2,488,870 00 ------------- Total $9,138,560 00 Per cent in buildings 37.4 TABLE IV.--_Number of farms and number and per cent of those with buildings, June 1, 1900, with average values of land and buildings._ Number of farms: Total 1,948 With buildings 1,933 Per cent with buildings 99.2 Average value of-- Land, per farm $3,414 00 Land, per acre 21 18 Buildings, per farm 1,278 00 Buildings, per farm with buildings 1,288 00 TABLE V.--_Total and average value per farm of farm implements and machinery, with increase and decrease and per cent of increase and decrease in the total value, by decades: Summary 1850 to 1900._ --------+---------------+--------------+-------------+----------- | Value of farm | | | | implements | Increase | Per cent | Average Census | and | by | of | value per year. | machinery. | decade. | increase. | farm. --------+---------------+--------------+-------------+----------- 1900 | $295,910 00 | $103,000 00 | 53.4 | $151 90 1890 | 192,910 00 | 9,683 00 | 5.3 | 106 11 1880 | 183,227 00 | [#]23,473 00 | [#]11.4 | 99 53 1870[##]| 206,700 00 | [#]31,564 00 | [#]13.2 | 166 96 1860 | 238,264 00 | 42,470 00 | 21.7 | 197 40 1850 | 195,794 00 | | | 155 89 --------+---------------+--------------+-------------+----------- [##: Values in gold.] [#: Decrease.] The percentage of increase was least for the decade 1880 to 1890. After 1870 the farmers did not, until 1900, report as large investments in machinery as they did prior to the war. Only two other Virginia counties reported higher values of farming implements and machinery in 1900. They were Augusta, with $439,090, and Rockingham, with $436,340. LIVE STOCK. _Values_. The total value of the live stock _on farms_ only, June 1, 1900, was $1,621,639, or 14.7 per cent of $11,056,109, the reported value of all farm property. Of the live stock value, domestic animals, worth $1,556,935, constituted 96 per cent; poultry, worth $58,276, 3.6 per cent; and bees, worth $6,428, .4 per cent. TABLE I.--_Reported value of live stock on farms with increase and decrease and per cent of increase and decrease, by decades, and average values per farm and acre._