New Ulm weekly review., 1882-06-07
Brown County,

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The average yield per acre Of the
wheat crop in Brown county, as given
by the State statician, is 1857 bushels;
oats, $3.50 bushels; corn, 26.43 bushels;
and barley, 1902 bushels.
The acreage of wheat of the whole
State in 1880 was 2,00l,842, in 1881,
2, 063,o84. Oats, in 1880, 682,83l. and
1881, 737,497. Corn in 1880, 422,46l,
and 1881, 74,989. Barley, in 1880.
lis, 8,480, and 1881, 203,34o. Rye, in 1880,
1882, and 1881, 14,23l. Flax, in 1880,
and 1881, 9O,464.
The average Of the wheat crop OF
Minnesota, for thirteen years, extend.
ing from 1868 to 1880 is l4.91 bushels
to the acre; the average Of oats for
twelve years is 1898 bushels; and for
corn for thirteen years is 30.86 bushels.
In the culture. Of sugar canein 1879,
Brown county stood sixth in the list
of cane producing counties, with POS
acres, yielding 1884 gallons of syrup.
In 1880 the county dropped to the six
teenth and in 1881 to the eighteenth,
with an acreage of l9l in the former
year and 1856 in the latter. The high,
est average per acre in Brown county
is given as 1853 gallons, while that of
several other counties in the State is
placed as high as 1851 gallons. The
acreage of the State in this item has
grown from III in 1873 to 8,014 in
1880, and 1915 in 1881.
The potato crop in 1880, was $751;
243 bushels, raised on SO, 1854 acres, and
averaging 1887 bushels. The acreage
of Brown county was 500, with an av-
erage yield of 82.8l bushels in 1880,
and 584 acres in 1881.
The total number of farms in 1881
was 8l,O89, of which Brown county
had 1874, being an increase of 10 over
the year before. The cultivated acre
age of Brown county in 1881 was a.
5l3, against 76,326 in 1880.
There were 228,o55 cows in Mime.
sofa, in 1880, making 1888, ,283 pounds
of butter and Al, ,oo4 pounds of cheese.
Brown county reports 5,522 cows (be.
ing thirteenth in the list), and the
product of 350,3l1 pounds Of butter
and 1851 pounds of cheese.
The number of sheep in Minnesota
in 1881 are given at 2l5,453, shearing
o23, ITO pounds Of wool. Wright coun-
ty takes the lead in wool growing, her
l0,O23 sheep producing 1928 pounds
of wool. Brown county had 2,108
sheep in 1881, producing s,776 pounds
of wool.
In horses, the State contains 263,061
of all ages, of which number Brown
county lays claim to 4,53s. OF cattle,
the total for the State in 1881 was 584,-
573, Brown county ranking nineteenth,
with 1889. Of hogs, the State had a
total Of 23S,987; mules, o,4l5; and
sheep, 267,3l5. The total assessed val
uation of all personal property in the
State is placed at $74,376,684.
The third division is devoted to pop.
ulation and gives the official results Of
the United States census for 1880.
The total population Of the State on
June lst, 1880, was 7sO, ,773, an increase
since census Of 1870 of 34l, ,O87, or 7s
per cent. OF the foreign born popula-
tion lO7,770 are reported from Scandi.
navian countries, II sos from Germany
and German speaking countries, 68,.
277 from Great Britain, Ireland and
English colonies, and l4,l24 from all
other countries, a total of 267, 676 for.
eign born.
The number Of newspapers In Min
nesota as shown BY this report, 10 Us,
Of which II are designated as dailies,
200 weeklies and monthly. Twenty
two are printed in foreign language
l--l2 German, 5 Norwegian, 4 Swedish
and l French.
The permanent public school fund O
the State Is stated at $3.50, 900, and
cu1rent school fund at $3.50, ,S35, 90, Th,
interest only of this Is apportioned fo1
school purpose allowing q 50 annual,
for each pupil u tho state. There ar
lin the state 4328 school districts, ol