Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-31
CENSUS IOWA.
A Valuable c. mpilat ion Of Facts.
Figures. and General 1nior-
nation.

nation.
The Z0,ca State Register says of
the State census of 1875, just pub
lished: The report shows the aver
age increase of population during the
terrilhrial decade, as determined by
the United States census, to have been
s2.67 per cent; annual increase dur
ing the first decade Of the State,
43.l9 per cent; during period of nine
years, 1856 to 1865, 5.O4 per cent,
while the average annual increase
during the decade ls65-ls75 has
been 7.s9 per cent. The growth OF
the State was checked during the
above mentioned period of nine years
by the financial difficulties and Il sea-
son of short crops, followed by the
war. The average annual mere. Sc
Of population for the past ten years
is placed at 59,564.5. The present
population of the State is l,35O,544,
an increase of nearly 100000 over
the population Of 1873.
The total white population of Iowa,
number of males, 697,O57; females,
747,42o. 1t is with great grief that
duty compels us to furnish this addi-
;ional plea to bachelors in support of
their efforts to prolong miserable
existence, but that Iowa is short OF
females to the number of nearly
$4,000 is a fact of no sort of comfort
to any but male advocates Of single
blessedness. There is alsl a delicate
hint OF NEGRO suffrage" in this re-
spect, when we rehec, that the figures
for the colored population read,
males, 1928; females, 2,s53-total,
1916. OF the entire population $685.
1872 were born in Iowa, so that we
now count more than half million
native Hawkeyes, $3.50 more are
natives of the United States, leaving
the number of our foreign born pop
ulation 2O3,5O1, or about onc-ttth Of
the whole. The number Of our pop
ulation born OF foreign parentage, in
this country and abroad is of both
parents, 3ls, $50; father a foreigner,
IS, 1862; mother foreigner, lo,927-
total, 355,O4e The total number Of
persons under the age of 81 years is
496,471, or about % per cent of the
entire population. OF the entire
white and colo'ed population over l6
years old s,l4s, or about one in l65,
cannot read, and in this the males
are in the majority. Our population
occupys o2l,5Ge dwellings,, nd are
divided into o49,e24 families, so to
provide a house for each family we
need $4,000 more buildings.
We occupy nearly l3, 100000 acres
OF improved land, protected by 1885,
900 miles Of fencing. OF this, $685.
90l acres were in cultivation in 1874,
producing 32,2sO,9ls bushels OF
spring and e5O,9S9 bushels of winter
wheat; l46,993,57O bushels of corn;
432,009 bushels Of rye, 29,21a,e91
bushels OF oats; 1884 9l bushels of
barley, and 16O,sO5 bushels Of buck
wheat. Winneshiek county leads
with a product of l,s13,465 bushels
of spring wheat. Marshall county
is ahead in the acreage Of planted
timber, which foots up $500 acres.-
We possessed COS, pos horses in 1874.
and sold 27,3ls for export, of which
a considerable number went to Min
nesOta. Thenumber of cattle slaught-
cred last year and sold for slaughter
last year amounted to 314,677. Num-
Der Of head OF thoroughbred short
born cattle in the State of that date,
9,733; Deyons, l,l26; Herefords, %;
Ayrshires, Jas; Jerseys, III; Holder
ress, 4; other improved breeds, 939.
The whole number OF hogs was g.
0S6,l8l. Of these were Berkshires.
s5,465; Poland-China, 96,O63: Ches-
ter White. 27,3l5; Magee, 2,l75;
Essex, $40; other improved breeds,
IS, 45l; number slaughtered and sold
for slaughter, 2.534,37l. The nun.
Der of sheep in the State WAS toml
to be 724,204. OF these We're, Me
rino, 5000; ColSwolA, 1854; Lpices
ter, 3,l46; Sou,hdowns, 1912; other
breeds, 3l,460. Quantity
of wool sheared, 2,340,9l4 ponmds.-
The value of farm product is fixed at
sl24,4o7,o7s; garden product, S726.
229; orchard, 1909; small fruits,
S4ee,259; products of the herd, S42,-
26l,O39; dairy. SS.39S.2l2: forest.