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Cross Timbers Counties Reveal Uneven Population Patterns
By Jackie Woods
The United States Bureau of the Census recently re- the past twenty years. Its 2004 population estimate of
ported 2004 population estimates for the five Cross Timbers 33,704 represents a gain of 12.6 percent over the 1994
Counties. All counties noted gains over the past ten years, value and an increase of 33.2 percent over the 1984 statis-
but two counties reported losses when compared to values tic.posted twenty years earlier.
POPULATION
Cross Timbers Counties
Thousands
40
40M1984
01994
3 2004
30
20
10Driven by enrollment growth at Tarleton State Univer-
sity and a balanced economy, Erath County noted the
strongest growth trend of any Cross Timbers county overBosque County reported a population of 18,002 in
2004. This value is 11.7 percent above the estimate for ten
years earlier and is 19.2 percent greater than the 1984 to-
tal.
Hamilton County's 8,115 population represents a rise
of 9.1 percent over the estimate for 2004 but shows a 9.8
percent erosion from the estimated population twenty
years earlier.
Eastland County posted a population total of 18,379
last year. This value is 3.5 percent above the 1994 esti-
mate but shows a loss of 10.8 percent when compared to
1984.
Comanche County's 13,616 population value for 2004
is 1.7 percent above the 1994 estimate and is 3.2 percent
greater than the value posted in 1984.
In addition to its decennial population count, the Bu-
reau of the Census reports annual population estimates for
all of the nation's political subdivisions.
Jackie Woods is a junior marketing major at Tarleton
State UniversityAgricultural Prices Higher
By Cole TierneyAccording to the data from the Texas Agricultural Sta-
tistics Service a rise in prices of livestock and products
more than offset a decline in crop prices to yield a moderate
gain in the all farm products price index over the past year.
Meanwhile, the purchasing power ratio of U.S. agricultural
products deteriorated, as a slight increase in prices received
by farmers fell short of a larger advance in prices paid.
In September 2004 the livestock and products price
index stood at 114 percent of the 1990-1992 average. It
rose as high as 127 in April 2005 before ending at 123 in
September of this year. These movements represented a net
gain of 8 percent over the past year.
The all crop index deteriorated by one point from Sep-
tember 2004 to September 2005, as it slid from 93 percent
to 92 percent of the base-year average.
The all farm products price index ended 2005's third
quarter with a value of 112. This estimate is 4.7 percent
higher than its September 2004 level.
Beef cattle prices ended the third quarter at $89.00 per
hundredweight. Although this value is lower than April's
$94.30, it was 1.6 percent higher than the previous Septem-
ber's level. Beef cattle prices in Texas also where higher
than the United States as a whole, as U.S. farmers and
ranchers received only $87.50 in September 2005.
Texas wholesale milk prices, which ended the third
quarter at $15.80 per hundredweight, were virtually un-
changed from the previous September's level. Averagemilk prices in the United States stood at $15.10 in Sep-
tember 2005.
INDEX NUMBERS OF PRICES
Received by Texas Farmers and Ranchers (1990-1992=100)
140 Livestock & Products
120
100
80 Crops
60
40
20
0
Jul Sep Nov Jan Mar May July Sep
2004 2005
Source: Texas Agricultural Statistics Service
The U.S. index of prices received by farmers inched
from 115 percent of the 1990-1992 average in September
2004 to 116 percent in September 2005. Meanwhile the
index of prices paid by farmers advanced from 134 to 142.
The result these movements was a deterioration in the pur-
chasing power ratio of farm products from 85.7 percent of
the 1990-1992 average in September 2004 to 81.7 percent
this September.
Cole Tierney is a senior interdisplinary business major at
Tarleton State University.0 -- -
Bosque Comanche Eastland
Source: U.S. Census BureauErath Hamilton
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