The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-21
LYON COUNTY AGRICULFURAL
STATISTICS.

Assessors' Census for the Year 1878.
We have from week to week published
the various assessors reports for 1878 by
townships, and now give them in the ag-
gregate, for Lyon county. We see, and
any reasonAb bly, well Informed citizen Of
our county Will agree with as, that in
many cases the assessors must have failed
to gather the full statistics. Take, for in
stance, the report on clover in cultivation
and how absurd it is compared to the
real number Of acres. We believe It safe
to add one-fourth to many OF the figures
to get at the real state Of the case. This
ineficiency, carelessness and, shall we
say lazIness, of some assessors, Is COM
mon subject of remark, and it is strange
that SO little care is exercised in their ap-
poiHtment. The people must be more
careful about this matter, and see that
live, energetic, thorough-gsing men are
chosen as assessors. The assessment
ought to be full, complete and accurate
in every respect and in every item, and
every slack, inefficient assessor ought to
give way to somebody who will do the
work thoroughly. The figures are as fol-
lows:
No. Of acres improved land, ia, 191; No.
of acres sown in the fall Of 1877, winter
wheat, S,07l; rye, 2,225.
No. Of acres planted or sown in 1878:
Spring wheat, 2,974; corn, 4O,OS4; barley,
200; oats, $685., buckwheat, 119; Irish
potatoes, 1,457; Sweet potatoes, 1913; sor-
ghum, 1872; Castor beans, 3; fax, =; hemp,
10; tobacco, %; broom corn, 274; milIet
and hungarian, 2,S2O.
Number of bushels old corn on hand
March LIST, 1875, 447,916.
Aggregate acres OF grass in cultivation:
Meadow-timOthy, 3161z; clover, TAN;
prairie, %, 115. Extraordinarily, 1877;
clover, 6; blue grass, 1877; prairie, 9,2221.
Value OF product of gardens-$IO,6 500.
Value Of poultry and eggs sold during
the year, $s,226.
Pounds of cheese made IN factories,
| Il, 115; price per pound, 10 cents; pounds
OF cheese made IN families, 1850; pounds
Of butter, 81, $40.
Live stock-number of horses, 6,377;
mules and asses, 423; mich cows, $40;
other cattle, 1908; sheep, 1906; swine,
10 ,55S; number of sheep killed by dogs,
20; number of animals slaughtered or
sold for slaughter during the year, L, 204.
Number of pounds Of wool, crop of
1877, q, 2641z.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of acres In nur-
series, G6N; number Of bearing tees in
orchards-apple,3 3, 1888; pear, &, 900; peach,
129, 1887; plum, 2,142; cherry, 1888.
Number of trees not in bearinR-spple,
81, 800, pear, 1894; peach, 1885; plum,
| 500. cherry 10 248
Value OF fruit product of 1877, sold
apples SIC. 72s.4s; pears, 81, 1853 20; peach
es $5,O57.O5; grapes, 1894; fruit not 9TH
erwise named, g., 9O5.5O.
Number of acres Of small fruits-rasp-
berries, So; strawberries, %; other small
fruits, 81.
Number of mulberry trees, 209; acres
of cultivated forest trees. (not mulberry
1913; miscellaneous trees not otherwi sc
named, 10, 919.
Number Of acres in vineyard, 80.
Gallons Of wine made in 1877, 4S9.
Number Of stands Of bees, 663; number
of pounds of honey produced, 1925; num-
Der Of pounds of wax, IS.
| Value Of ali kinds of agricultural i'm.
plements on March LIST, 1873. $40, 1893.
Number of rods of fence-stone, 9,S12;
rail, 12O,65O: hedge, POI, 153: wire, u, 1854;
board, 9O,9O9.