machinery and live stock, with increase and decrease, and per cent of
increase and decrease, by decades: Summary 1850 to 1900._

--------+----------------+-----------------+------------+------------
Census | Value of | Increase in | Per cent | Average
year. | all farm | decade. | of | value per
| property. | | increase. | farm.
--------+----------------+-----------------+------------+------------
1900 | $11,056,109 00 | $971,459 00 | 9.6 | $5,675 62
1890 | 10,084,650 00 | [#]729,731 00 | [#]6.7 | 5,547 11
1880 | 10,814,381 00 | [#]1,437,636 00 | [#]11.7 | 5,874 19
1870[##]| 12,252,017 00 | 323,187 00 | 2.7 | 9,896 62
1860 | 11,928,830 00 | 2,446,073 00 | 25.7 | 9,883 04
1850 | 9,482,757 00 | | | 7,549 97
--------+----------------+-----------------+------------+------------

[##: Values in gold.]

[#: Decrease.]

An especially great increase in the total value of farm property will
be noted in the decade from 1850 to 1860. Then followed the Civil War
with its great destruction of farm property, and from this disaster
the County did not fully recover before 1890.

The average value per acre of all farm property in Loudoun increased
from $32.18 in 1850 to $35.22 in 1890.

TABLE II.--_Value of farms with improvements, including
buildings, with increase and per cent of increase, by decades: Summary