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Michigan Poultry, Eggs and Meadows
The Secretary of State has submitted
figures giving statistics of poultry June
1, 1894, and of eggs sold in year ending
June /, 1894; the acreage and products
of meadows in 1898, and quantity and
value of hay and of straw sold in year
ending June /, 1894; the acreage of corn
raised for silage in 1898, and the number
and capacity of silos June /, 1894.
The number of chickens in the State
June 1, 1894, was Z, 102 ,007; turkeys, 273.-
SIS; geese, 75,146; ducks, 125,510. The
number of dozens of eggs sold during the
year ending June 1, 1894, was "a, 1S2, 1873,
the value of which was So, ,04O, ,977, or 12.G
cents per dozen.
OF the total number of fowls reported,
5,407, 1872, or 71.37 per cent, are reported
from the southern counties; 1,470, ,22S, or
19.41 per cent, from the central counties;
5S6, ,453 or TIA per cent, from the north
ern counties; and 111,76 or 1.4S per
cent, from the Upper Peninsula.
BY the United States census of 1890
the number of chickens in the State June
/, 1890, was 5,S52. $50, and of ''all other
fowl" 357 ,534. The chickens reported
in 1890 were 1,249,317 less, and "all 9th
er fowl" 116, 700 less than reported in the
present census. The United States CEN
sus returns of eggs is 34,309,633 dozen.
This is 10, 127 ,495 dozen more than sold
In the year ending June 1, 1894, as shown
by the present census.
The number of acres of clover mOwn
was OIL 500, and of meadows other than
clover 1851, AT, making total of 2,263,-
176 acres of meadows harvested in 1898.
The yield of clover hay was 1,23S,1S5
tons, an average of 1876 tons per acre,
and Of meadows other than clover 1,117,-
672 tons, an average of 1.27 tons per acre.
The total hay crop was 2,9o5,S51 tons.
The number of bushels of clover seed har-
vested was 1904, and of grass seed,
14,7S4.
Compared with the totals in the State
census of 1884, the area of clover mead
ows mown was 123,334 acres less, and
the product was 1S4, TAB tons less than in
1883 while the area of meadows other
than clover harvested was 616,652 acres
more, and the product So, ,453 tons more
than in 1888. The yield per acre of each
kind was hundredth of a ton less in
1893 than in 1888.
OF the total acreage in hay 1,5SO,3O3
acres, or 69.S3 per cent, are reported
from the southern counties; 439, ,217 acres,
or 19.41 per cent, from the central coun-
ties; 175, 500 acres, or III per cent, from
the northern counties, and 1927 acres,
or 900 per cent, from the Upper PENN
sula.
The number of acres of hay mown in
fhn 70 in, CHI hxyf ha mi aH
States census OF 1890, was 2,024, 1876, and
the tons harvested 2,3S5,1 an average
of LIS tons per acre The area harvested
was 23S, ,440 acres less. and the product
$40, 702 tons less than the area and prod
uct in 1893, as shown by the present CEN
sus.
There were 66S,5 tons of hay sold
during the year ending June i, 1894,
which is valued at So, ,247 $50, an average
Of $7.S5 per ton. and there were 30, 73S
tons of straw sold, valued at Sal ,935, an
average of $2.64 per ton. The entire hay
crop of the State, 1855, ,So7 tons, at the
same value per ton as that sold, $7.S5,
was worth $23, ,203,477. The hay sold
was 2262 per cent. of the entire crop.
The hay left on farms was 2,2S1 ,264 tons,
worth SIT ,955,022.
Of the total amount of hay sold in the
State, 454, ,S77 TONS or 6S.04 per cent, are
reported from the southern counties; 144,-
pa tons, or 21.57 per cent, from the
central counties; 1852 tons, or 7.04 per
cent, from the northern counties, and
22,420 tons, or 1856 per cent, from the
Upper Peninsula.
The number of slos in the State June
i, 1894, was sol, with capacity of o.
S46 tons. The number of acres of corn
raised for silage in 1893 was 1850. An
average yield of 7.2S tons per acre from
this acreage would be sufficient to fill the
silos reported.
The number and capacity of the silos
returned from each of four sections of the
State are as follows: Southern counties,
number 327, capacity 34,412 tons; cen
trail counties, number 0S capacity 11,717
tons; northern counties, number 60. ca
pacity 5,937; Upper Peninsula, number z,
capacity $50. ,