The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1879-08-21
FARM ANIMALS. WITH INCREASE
AND DECREASE FROM 1876
TO 1879. INCLUSIVE.
SWINE.


Number of swine in 1876 was 23O. 1855
in 1877, 704 1862; increase in one year
374 ,5O7; in 1873, 1,l95,O44; increase in
one year, 49O,l82; in 1879, |, 264 .i94; in
crease in one year, 69,450. Increase in
three years, 93l, 139. or fraction less
than 285 per cent.
HORSES.
Number of horses in 1876 was 214,811:
in 1877, pa, 20S; increase in one year,
q. 1897; in 1873. 274,45O; increase in one
year, 1924; in 1879, 1924, 766; increase
in one year. 50.3l6. Increase in three
years, 109,955, or a fraction more than
81 per cent.
MULES AND ASSES.
Number of mules and asses in 1876
was &c, 42l; in 1877, 32,62s; increase in
one year, 6,2G7; i'm 1873, 40,564; increase
in one year, 1886; in 1879, 5l,9S1; in.
crease in one year, IL, All. Increase in
three years, 25,56O, or u fraction less
than 81 per cent.
MICH cows.
Aumber of mich cows in 1876 was
227, 274; in 1877, 262,64l; increase in one
year, "a. 1868: in 1873. 286.241; increase
in one year. 24,559; in 1879, 49,, O2O; in
crease in one year, 1919. Increase in
three wears, 104, TAG, or a fraction more
than 46 per cent.
OTHER CATTLE.
Number of other cattle in 1876 was
AIS, $50; in 1877, 4l9, 346; increase in one
year, 1896; in 1873, $50, OO2; increase
in one year, 1856; in 1879, 654.54S; in
erase in one year, 98.441. Increase in
three years, 2l1 .O93, or fraction more
than "A per cent.
SHEEP.
Number of sheep in 1876 was Ia, 1862;
in 1877, 205,770; increase in one year,
81 1903; in 1873, 243,76O; increase in one
year, 1890; in 1879, 81 1852: increase
in one year, 6S,l02. Increase in three
years, l67. 900. or a fraction more than
ll6 per cent.
BLUEGRASS PASTURE.
Bluegrass pasture acreage in 1876 was
16, 964.82; in 1877, 2l,299.3l; increase in
one year, 1854. 40: in 1873, 27,s76.73; in
crease in one year, 6.57s.42; in 1879, Sc,
1862; increase in one year; S,2sO.09.
Increase in three years, IL, 2O2, or frac-
ton more than l13 per cent.
PRAIRIE PASTURE.
Prairie pasture acreage (under fence)
in 1876 was 595. 495; in 1877, 553.7l7; de-
crease in one year, 42,77s; in 1873, 70l,-
42l; increase in one year. l4s.704; in
1879. s55,s26; increase in one year, 254.-
4O5. Increase in three years, S9 ,SSl, or
a fraction more than 60 per cent.
POPULATION.
We have already published the popu-
lstion by counties. except three or four
not at the time received. No report has
vet been received for Riley county.
Reckoning that the same as last year.
the population Of the State on the first
of March was si9.97s.
There are some funny things in this
population business, only few of which
can be referred TO to-day. But two
counties in the State have decreased
johnson 2.l27, and Montgomery 4s9.
As stated above, Riley county has made
no report, and that from Atchison
county is estimated as it has been for
the past three years. The estimated
population Of Atchison county is p 200,
an increase over the estimate" of last
year of 100. The population Of Shaw
nee county is, as we have before pub
lished, 22,6S2, an increase Of S,sls. The
estimated" population of Atchison
city, as made by the assessors, is 1000.
The population OF Topeka, as counted.
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