Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-10-27
STOCK AND FARM.

in one week.
Winfield Courier: John Mentch has
taken a contract to plant 400 acres in
fruit trees on the Green farm near Ak
ron. He is to take care of the trees for
one year and get them in good, thrifty
condition. The work is being done for
wealthy eastern party.
Emporia Republican: S. C. David
son purchased eighteen head of
horses with which he started Satur-
day for GLASGOW, Scotland. They are
all fine horses and have been raised
in this county. 1t is the first load OF
horses that have ever been shipped from
this county to a foreign market.
From Coburn's Report.
There are ten times as many horses in
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 165, 1877 acres
of spring wheat sown in the state last
spring was 30,044 bushels.
Swine have increased in numbers 15.4
per cent during the past year. There
are now 1923, 375 in the state.
Four counties. Cheyenne, Decatur.
| Sherman and Stevens, report no wheat
harvested during the past season.
There are more than $4,000 horses
and mules in the state. The increase in
numbers during the past year was 2,609.
The number of sheep in Kansas is
| I Tn
Since then the number has declined
heavily each year.
Twenty-Five counties in the state have
fewer than 1000 hogs each. Greeley
has only 201; Grant, 222; Stevens, 246;
and Morton, 297.
! In fourteen counties 20 barley was
sown this year. Lane raised more than
any other county Her product was
59,616 bushels, from 1924 acres.
Of milch cows Kansas has 524, 127, a
decrease from last year of rs per cent;
and of ''other cattle" 1,291,793 a de-
crease from last year of 142 per cent.
Four counties in the state report no
sheep. Morton reports only 3, Jewell,
4; Kiowa, 6; and Lincoln, s. 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 2,42S; the latter,
| 81. Forty counties have more than
1000 each.
Linn was the banner oats county this
year. Her product was 891, 500 bushels
Then follows Marshall with 759,250;
Cowley with 753, 1876; Washington with
| 716,064; 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
i 1000 bushels each
Nearly II per cent of all the sheep in
Kansas are in Butler county, where the
focks number %, $50 Woodson county
has 9,238; johnson, 8,482: Hodgeman,
| 1868; Dickinson. 6,240 Noother 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, JEWELS 49,621,
Marshalrs 41,715, Pottawatomie's 37,-
924, Smiths 37,76S, Buffers 37,307, and
Republics 1928.
Dickinson has more milch cows than
any other county. Her herds number
12,505. Washington has II, ,469; Cowley
10,969; Marshall, 1O.968; Butler, 1858;
Sumner, 10,250; Ledgwick, 19,049
Fourteen counties have fewer than 1000
each.
Dickinson leads the other counties in
rye product, with 1880 bushels from
4,236 acres. Phillips county had 5,999
acres but her product was only 41,933
bushels. No other county in the state
had so much as 10000 bushels. Eight
counties had less than 1000 bushels
each.
Wilson county led all the rest in fax
production this year. From 1926
acres she raised 81, 1872 bushels Elk
with 84,232, Anderson with 80, 700,
Neosho with 1,441 and Allen with 80.-
$50 bushels, came next in order. Forty
counties raised no fax at all. Ford
county raised 2 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 81, $40. none of which was harvested
Cheyenne county followed in point of
acreage with Blob, Rawlins with 26, 133,
then Thomas with 14,263 Twenty
three counties report no spring wheat
sown
The largest wheat acreage IN the state
this year, was in Sumner county, where
272, $40 acres were sown and 251, OF
acres harvested. Barton county followed
in the number of acres sown, with 1885,
807, but only 104, Gil acres of this was
harvested, while Mcpherson county
harvested 116, ,304 acres out of 145, ,3SI
acres sown.
There are eight counties in the state
having more than $4,000 horses each.
They are Sumner with 0,707; Cowley
with 1881; Butler with 7,039; Jewell
with 1890; Sedgwick with Is, 729;
Marshall with 16,441; Mcpherson with
16,435; and Washington with 15,0S8.
In Seward county there are but 579
horses, in Stevens but $50, in Stanton
but 794, in Haskell but 835, and -
Greeley but 99s.