The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-24
MILLIONS AND MILLIONS.
ONE OF THE GREAT COUNTIES OF
KANSAS
The Statistical Data of the Agricultural
Resources for Sedgwick County
for 1901.

Syl Dunkin, Esq, the popular and eff
cIent clerk of our county, kindly made up
table of footings of the crops and other
farm products from the returns of the
township assessors transmitted his office,
for the readers of the EAGLE, which we
give below. The showing is most crafty
ing, leaving Sedgwick in the front rank of
all the counties of the state. Many of our
Alliance friends would have the people
believe that the agricultural interests of
Sedgwick county and of the great valley
were declining. The reverse is the truth.
by comparing the table furnished US by
Mr.. Dunkin and the figures of which
have been verified by affidavits OF the re-
spectlve assessors, we find notable per
cent OF increase in many lines. There is
an increase of the taxable valuation of
farms Of 10 per cent and 10 per cent in
crease of cultivated acreage; there
is an increase of one hundred
per cent in the breadth of
wheat sown over last year and 60 per
cent of increase of old wheat on hand
There IS 40 per cent increase of tame
grasses over last year and 81 per cent of
garden production. There is 10 per cent
increase in poultry and eggs, and Is per
cent in butter and 275 per cent in cheese
There is II per cent increase in horses in
the year, and 16 per cent increase in cattle
and IS IN sheep and 10 per cent in hogs.
The total value of animals slaughtered
foots up $500, 1885, an increase of IS per cent.
There is 20 per cent increase in the wool
clip of the county over last year and 60
per cent in bee stands. A new crop prac-
tlcally makes its appearance this season,
one which the EAGLE urged lastyear when
there was but three acres of it in the
county. We refer to flax OF which there
are nearly six hundred acres returned this
year which promises to be good.
Two or three state organizations held
the town for the greater part OF the week,
but by Friday night the knights had de-
parted, the foreign missionaries had flown
and the hosts of the congregations of
Christian Endeavor had ceased work and
sought their homes in every part of the
state and Saturday was left to the farmers
OF the valley, who were present in town in
goodly numbers. There was but one side
to the farmers story and it was unembell-
ished by either bugs or drouth. The illus
trations We're all bright and encouraging.
.CdtIo LIIdO zen udyS ago were growing Out
discouragingly slow have become rank
and green, and wheat that looked as if it
might fall an easy prey to the first enemy,
now defies every disaster, save that of
hail storms
There is going to be yield of wheat in
the counties adjoining and including this,
namely, in Butler, Cowley, Sumner, Bar
Der, Sedgwick, Harper, Kingman,
Pratt, Reno and Mcpherson, whose
aggregated busheles will be one
half of that raised by the entire state. The
chances now are that these counties will
harvest upwards of 100000 bushels.
Sumner alone, we estimate will harvest
4, 100000 bushels, and Mcpherson and
Sedgwick not very far behind, with Cow
ley, Butler, Harper, Harvey and Barber
and the others rolling up with million
each, more or less, of the golden grain.
AS for corn, the other great staple of this
valley, that producer of our famous pigs
and kline, it is too early yet to say farther
than it is looking as splendid as it could |
for the season so far, which has probably |
lacked warmth. All other field crops are |
in prime condition, and every variety of
fruit and all kinds of gardens of unusual
promise.
The following is the table referred to: