Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-11-01
From Coburn'e Report,

There are ten times as many horses ia
the state as there are mules.
Allen county had in just one acre of
barley this year, and raised 20 bushels.
In Wallace county, 632 out OF 21,083
acres of wheat sown yielded total pro-
duct Of 632 bushels.
The total product Of the 1865, 1877 acres
OF spring wheat sown in the state last
spring was 30,044 bushels.
Swine have increased in nusNheEs 1874
per cent during the past year! 4(''va
are now 1,623,375 in the state.
-Four counties, Cheyenne, Decatur,
Sherman and Stevens, report no wheat
harvested during the past season.
There are more than 100000 horses
and mules in the state The increase in
numbers during the past year was 2,609
The number of sheep in Kansas is
only 15G,3S4. In 1887, it was 53S, 767.
Since then the number has declined
heavily each year.
Twenty-Five counties in the state have
fewer than 1000 hogs each. Greeley
has only 2O1; Grant, 800; Stevens, 246;
and Morton, 297.
In fourteen counties no barley was
this year. Lane raised more than
any other county. Her product was
59,616 bushels, from 1924 acres.
OF mich cows Kansas has 524, 127, a
decrease from last year Of 7.6 per cent;
and of "other CATTLE" 1891 a de-
crease from last year of 142 per cent. .
-Four counties in the state report no
sheep. Morton reports only 8, Jewell,
4; Kiowa, 6; and Lincoln, 8. Fifteen
counties report fewer than 100 each.
Sumner has the most mules of any
county in the state and Seward the few
est The former has 2,428; the latter,
81. Forty counties have more than
1000 each.
Linn was the banner oats county this
year. Her product was 991, 500 bushels.
Then follows Marshall with 759,250;
Cowley with 753, 1886; Washington with
716064; Crawford with 712,512.
Eight counties in the state harvested
no oats this season. They are Chey-
enne Decatur, Hodgeman, Cove, Sheri-
dan, Sherman, Stanton and Wallace.
Eight other counties raised less than
1000 bushels each
Nearly II per cent of all the sheep in
Kansas are in Butler county, where the
flocks number 1880. Woodson county
has 9,239; Johnson, S,492; Hodgeman,
1868; Dickinson, 6,240 NootheH coun-
ty has so many as 5000.
Washington has more hogs than any
other county. Her 52,280 is followed
by Nemaha's 50,374, Jowell's 1881,
Marshall's 41.715, Pottawatomie's 81
924, Smiths 37,768, Buffers 37,307, and
Republics 1928.
Dickinson has more mich cows than
any other county. Her herds number
12,505. Washington has l, 460; Cowley
10,969; Marshall, 10,968: Butler, 10,513;
Sumner, 10,250; Ledgwick, l9.049.
Fourteen counties have fewer than |, 900
each.
Dickinson leads the other counties in
rye product, with 1890 bushels from
4,236 acres Phillips county had $500
acres but her product was only 4l,932
bushels No,Other county in the state
had 80 much as 100000 bushels. Eight
counties had less than 1000 bushels
each.
Wilson county led all the rest in &lx
production this year. From 1926
acres she raised 91,182 bushels. Elk
with 1922, Anderson with $1,000,
Neosho with 81, 441 and Allen with So
$3.50 bushels, came next in ordar. Forty
counties raised no flax at all. Ford
county raised bushels from one acre
sown.
More spring wheat was sown in Sher-
man county last spring than in any
other county in the state. The acreage
was 51,670 mono of which was harvested.
Cheyenne county followed in point of
acreage with 81, 013, Rawlins with 26, 1873,
then Thomas with 14,263. Twenty
three counties report no spring wheat
sown.
The largest wheat acreage in the state
this wear, was in Sumner county, where
272, $40 acres we're sown and 251, OFT
acres harvested Barton county followed
in the number of acres sown, with 1885,
SO7, but only 104,611 acres of this was
harvested, while Mcpherson county
harvested 1904 acres out of 145,3 1881
acres sown.
There are eight counties in the state
having more than $4,000 horses each.
They are Sumner with 20,707; Cowley
with 1881; Butler with 1909; Jewell
with 1880; Sedgwick with 1929;
Marshall with 1G,441; Mcpherson with
16,435; and Washington with 15,0SS.
In Seward county there are but $40
horses, in Stevens but $50, in Stanton
but 794, in Haskell but 835, and In
Greeley but 09S.
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