Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-01-10
The Agricultural Products of Kansas
in 1881.

The Fourth Quarterly Report of tn
Kansas State Board Of Agriculture for
1881, which will be issued during the
first week in January, will contain, to-
gether with many other matters, a COM
plete statistical exhibit Of the agricul-
tural growth Of the state during the
past year. Many Of the statistical
tables are now prepared, and the fol-
lowing facts and figures are gathered
from them:
The total value OF the product of the
twenty-five field crops raised in 1881 is
$9l ,910,439.27, or more than 30 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, ,275.80, and the
latter, S45,S59, ,96329.
In production, average yields were
not SO large as in 1880. but the in
creased price of farm products made
the product of this year much more
valuable.
The yield of wheat winter and
spring. was 20,479,6S9 bushels; corn,
50. 200, 542 bushels. OF oats, 9,900,76S
bushels were raised and valued at 3d.
S55,749.77. Irish potatoes, 1854, 14O
bushels, with value of $2,71O,3T5O.
The hay crop, consisting Of millet,
Hungarian, timothy. clover and prairie,
aggregated 2,092,0 2,0S7tons, with value
of Sll, ,S94, ,594.9S.
OF the minor crops the Following
products and values are given: Rye,
9S6.50S bushels-$735,5 ,55327; barley,
ll0,125 bushels-$67,528.S0; buck
wheat, 5S,621 bushels-$43, ,965.75;
sweet potatoes, POI ,062 bushe,s-S292,-
S42.s5: sorghum 3,S99,440 gallons-$1,-
745,S7l.45; castor beans, 392, SAG bush
els-s497,37 ,37S.l3; cotton, 368,070
pounds-S3S.S05.30; flax. 1,184,445 5
bushels-Sl, ,S57 ,943.61; hemp, 629,l 100
pounds-S44, ,04l20; tobacco, 1890
pounds-s79, 7S2; broom corn, 32,96l,.
$50 pounds-$l, ,4S0.1l5.15; rice corn,
52O,5S4 bushels-$3l4.76Z12; and
pearl millet, S0,176 tons-sl65,863
The value of property subject to
taxation is $2S4,6SS,955.05, being
S3075l per capita.
The increase in the value of live
stock over last year is $685., ,504 50;
produce of live stock during the year
$2l ,6S2, ,SSS.25; value of honey and way
produced, s22,2l025; products Of or
chards and vineyards, 81, $50. 2.3S4.oS.
There were eight counties that this
year harvested over 100000 bushels OF
wheat, viz; Mcpherson. 1.337l74;
Saline, l,l60.705; Sedgwick, I,0S5,117:
Dickinson, 926,226; Sumner, So,
Cowley, 702,l Barton, 670,720:
and Harvey, 660,9S5. Seven counties
raised more than 100000 bushels, viz:
Marion, 495, 729; Ottawa, ISL ,270; Reno,
47O,l60; Rice, 42S,520; Cherokee. 419,-
800; labette, 405,lS0; and Lincoln.
40l,555
Forty-two counties raised over !. .000,.
600 bushels Of corn each. viz; Sedgwick,
3,206,7 700; Sumner, 3,lS1SS0; Butle1.
2,9SS,420; Cowley. 2.457,575; Jewell,
2,4l4,6S0; Brown, 2,3S5.050, Usage. J.
965,572; Nemaha, 1887 Miami.
1923, 1873; Lyon, l,9l7.702; Washing
ton, 1885, $40; Republic, l,SO6.S40:
Iabette, l,693,098; Marshall. .692. .l4O:
Franklin, 1921, ,906; Wilson, I,5S2l75;
Doniphan, l,5l0,560; Linn, l,89S,554;
Bourbon, |, l,49S,020: Mcpherson, 1892
942 Montgomery l,4Sl,3S4; Smith, l.
3936l6; CofIey l,33S736; Shawnee.
l,292, lSO; Johnson, l,25G7lS; Harvey,
l,l5S,O27; Dickinson, l,l57, $50; Potta-
watomie, l,l43632; Greenwood, l,l29,-
625; Anderson, l,llA350, Leaven.
worth, l,lO0,l98; Crawford, l,094475:
Cherokee, l,0S6,52S; Cloud, l.077.S
Douglas, l,075,225: Atchjson. lO7S-