Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-01-21
STATE AFFAIRS
And Capital City News of State
Interest.
Farmers, Balance Sheet.

Dale-tlCS onset
Secretary Mohler of the state board
of agriculture has compiled a report
which includes the value of all the
products of the farm. The report is as
follows:
'Oficial statistics compiled in this
Office from returns of assessors of Kan
sas and the correspondents of the board,
show the value of the total output of
Kansas farms, together with the aggre-
gate value of live stock, to be as follows:
Cereals-Wheat, corn. oats, rye, bar
ley end buckwheat. Aggregate
Other field crops-Potatoes, castor
beans, sorghum, cotton, fax,
hemp. tobacco broom corn, mil
let, tame and prairie hay. Aggre-
Products s'1V of f. live stock.wooi, '-'''''' -
tered and sold for slaughter, milk
sold. poultry and eggs sold. Ag
gregate value of. .....-.-..--.,. 45,724,709 81
Miscellaneous products : Garden
and horticultural products sold,
wine, honey and wax and wood
sold. Aggregate value o.. 2,sSI,4l7 20
Total. ...;............,....... SOS. 1.874 II
Der turned INTO cash each year is
not given by the assessors. Bya
cOnserK alive estimate we place
this at 0ne-seVenth of the whole
number of horses. or 1lU,9SS,
which. a SIS per head. g1yes......S e,S19,976 90
Grand total. sl7s, 1s1, SAT II
''This represents the value of the total
output of Kansas farms for the year
1891.
'The aggregate value of all the live
stock of the state is placed by the cor
respondents of the board at $117, 674,-
961.50. Adding this to the preceding
amount 1.-THE total value of farm prod
ucts, ETC., we have a grand total of
1926, 800, 30s.67.
''This amount is properly divided into
two parts:
"First-Working capital;
''Second-Available surplus.
"First-The amount invested in live
stock (S117, 674, .5O), horses, cattle,
sheep and swine, needs to be kept on
hand by the farmer, and is, therefore,
properly accounted working capital.
"By a liberal estimate, I2,500,000
bushels of wheat will be needed by the
farmers for bread and seed for the year.
This amount at 20 cents per bushel is
S8,750,0O0, which is to be regarded as
working capital.
eff we allow three-fourths of all the
corn, oats, rye, barley, hay and sorghum
grown IN bn6 StdU0 10 De IeQ TO STOCK
on the farm (this is a liberal estimate) J,
we have an amount consumed equal in
value to $54, 943, 361.88. This also is
properly accounted as working capital
''The value of animals slaughtered
and sold for slaughter is reported by
the assessors for the state at $37, 922,-
1872. From this amount must be de-
Quoted the meat consumed by the farm
ers of the state.
SIN the report of the United States
department of agriculture for 1890 we
see that the department statistician esti-
mates the. annual consumption of meat
per capita at IT'S pounds. Placing the
rural population of Kansas at /, ZOO, 900,
we have, on the basis of consumption
given, IT'S, 100000 pounds for the farm
population, which, at a cents per pound,
amounts to $7,S75,000
''This amount the farmers of Kansas
must keep on hand, and it also is classed
as working capital.
''From the above estimate we see that
approximately the total working capital
of Kansas farmers is as follows: