The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-12-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


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The Fourth Quarterly Report Of the Kan.
sas State Board of Agriculture for 1881,
which will be issued during the first week
in January, will contain, together with
many other matters, complete statistical
exhibit Of the agricultural growth Of the
| State during the past year. Many OF the
statistical tables are now prepared, and the
| following facts and figures are gathered
| from them:
The total value Of the product of the TWEEN.
ty-tw0 field crops raised In 1881 is $01, 9l0, :.
439. q, or more than 80 per cent. greater
than In any previous year in the history OF the
State. The two that contribute the largest
share Of this immense total are wheat and
corn; the former making $21, 705, $3.50, and
| the latter 81. $50 1868. %.
In production, average yields were not so
large as in 1880, but the increased price Of
farm products made the products of this year
much more valuable.
was 2O,479. $50 bushels; corn, 80, 760, 54a
bushels. OF oats, $500, 76s bushels were
raised, and are valued at S., $50, 1877. Irish
potatoes, 1856, 40 bushels, with q value of
2.71O, $3.50. The hay crop, consisting of
millet, Hungarian, timothy, clover and
prairie, agg, q, ted q os2os7 tons' with
OF the minor crops. the following products
and values are given: Rye, 9S6, sos bushels
-$7S5, 553.27; barley, 11O.125 bushels-$S7,-
$3.50; buckwheat, IS, 621 bushels-$43,-
$40; sweet potatoes, 01 ,062 bushels
500, 1926; sorghum, 1893. 40 gallons-$1,-
"a, S71. As; castor beans, 392, $40 bushels
SO, 37s.13; cotton, SsS,070 pounds-$ss,-
hemp, 629, 100 pounds-$44,0 41 20; tobacco,
1880 pounds-$79, 1872; broom corn 81. :
961, $50 pounds-$1,4 SO, lis. Is; rice corn,
520,534 bushels 1914, S7.12; and pearl mil.
let, 30, 176 tons-$l65, 1868.
The value Of property subject to taxation
is 1884 .6SS, $50. O5, being 1901. 81 per capita;
The increase in the value Of live stock
over last year is $685., 5O4.5O; produce of
live stock during the year, 81, $50, SSS. %;
value of honey and wax produced, ~, 21O.25
products of orchards and vineyards, $l,SS2,-
364.6S.
Forty-two counties raised over 1000, 900
bushels Of corn each, viz: Sedgwick. FOG, :
Cowley, 2, 457, t75; Jewell, 2, 414. $50; Brown,
1855, $50; Usage, 1,965.572; Nemaha, 1889, i.
1855; Miami, 1923, 1873; Lyon, 1,9l7,7O2;
Washington, 1885 $40; Republic, l, 806, $40;
Labette, 1,693,09S; Marshall. 1862, 40;
Franklin, 1921 ,9O6; Wilson, 1.5s2, Us; Doni-
phan, 1,5lO, $50; Linn, 1,49s, 554; Bourbon,
]. 5000; Mcpherson, 49,, 9ia; Montgom-
1876; Shawnee 1,292, $50; johnson. 1, 257, 718;
Harvey, 1,l5S,U27; Dickinson, 1857 $3.50;
Pottawatomie, 1,l43,632; Greenwood. 1,1.9,-
625;Anderson,1 ,1l5.3 $50; Leavenworth, ], 100,
1893; Crawford, 1904, 40; Cherokee, 1885,
62S; Cloud. LOT, 1885; Douglas, 1,O75,225;
Atchison, 1,O75,220; Mitchell, LOG, 25S;
Clay, ,063. 40; Neosho, 1,O50,6A Marion,
1,ON,532; Rice, LOIS, 100; and Reno. 1905.
While it is true that the long continued
dry weather, and the army of chinch bugs,
did immense damage to The crops of the
State during 1881, yet there need be no i'm
mediate apprehension that the farmers are
in want, when it is ascertained that the
value of $1s2, 45O, 4O6.95 is divided among
them this year.
The following table shows the acreage,
product and value of the corn crop of the
State for each year, from 1870 to 1881, .inclu-
sive: