The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-08-15
FARM STATISTICS.


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The Missouri Board of Agriculture
submitted questions to 400 crop cor
respondents, receiving replies from
every county in the state except
Charlton, Franklin, Ste Genevieve
and Scott.
The replies show that of land in
cultivation the per cent cultivated
by tenants for the state at large is
23j for northeast section, 20 per
cent; northwest section, 25 per cent;
central section, % per cent; south
west section, 26 per cent; southeast
section, 23 per cent.
Where grain rent is paid for the
use of land the tenant gives for corn
an average for the state at large and
for the northeast and central sections
AZ ner- cant NJ the urein produced.
cent; for southwest section, SO per
cent, and the northwest section AZ
per cent, the lowest price paid being
33 3 per cent and the highest so
per cent.
For oats in the state and south
west and northeast sections the
share is 81 per cent of the crop. In
the southeast and central sections SO
per cent, and in the northwest 80
per cent, the extremes, as in corn,
being from 33 13 to so per cent.
For wheat an average of 81 per
cent is paid as rent in the state and
in central and northeast sections; 80
per cent in the southeast; 35 in the
southwest and 80 in the nor Invest.
For the use of cotton land 30 per
cent of lhe crop is paid II the state
at large; 81 per cent in the south
east section, and 80 per cent in the
southwest section, these being the
only localities in which it is nro-
duced.
Tobacco land commands SO per
cent of the crop in the state at large,
35 per cent in the southeast section,
and 80 per cent in the southwest and
central, and 33 13 per cent in the
northwest and northeast sections.
Potato land commands 81 per
cent of the crop for the state at
| large, the southwest and northeast
| sections 80 per cent; for the north :
west section, "a per cent for the
southeast section, and 40 per cent
| for the central section.
Meadows are rated at rental
value of AZ per cent of the crop for
the state at large and the northwest
section, and at As per cent for the
southeast, southwest and central,
and at 4S per cent for the northeast
section; the general price in all sec
tions being one half of the crop,
which is reduced by an occasional
report from some locality of one
third rent.
Flax lands rent for 80 per cent OF
the crop for the state at large, 33
per cent for the northeast section,
80 per cent for the northwest sec
tion, 80 per cent for the central, 38
per cent for the SOU Invest and AZ
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CASH PRICE FOR THE USE OF LAND.
The average cash price paid for
the use of corn land in the state at
large is $3.50 per acre. for oat land
S2.35 per acre; for wheat, $3.50; for
cotton, $3.50; for tobac o, 1895; for
potatoes, $500; for meadows, $3.50;
for fax, s2.1O; and fos pastures,
s1.S5.
For the northeast section the av-
erage price Tor corn lani is ~ 30, for
oats 81 35; for wheat, $2,40; for to-
bacco, $3.50; for potatoes, So 80;
meadows, $3.50; flax, $500; and
pastures, 81 so.
For the northwest section corn
land, $3.50; oats, 81 40; wheat,
S2.65; tobacco, $500; potatoes,
1886; meadows, $3.50; and pastures
s2.1O.
Central section reports corn land
worth $2.95 per acre; oats s2.20;
wheat, 81 65; potatoes, SO. 10; mead
ows, $500; fax, s1.75; and pastures
at 81 O5.
Southwest section estimates corn
land at S2.35 oats, S2,l5; wheat,
81 So; cotton, So 75; potatoes, So .O5 ;
meadows, S2.S5; flax, $3.50; and
pastures, $40.
Southeast section says corn is
worth 81 95, oats s2,G5, wheat ~ 35,
cotton So 40, tobacco $3.50, potatoes
1856, meadows So l5, and pa tures
s1.6O.
INCREASE OR DECREASE OF FARM
LABoRERs.
From ninety-four points in the
state farm laborers are reported
more plen iful than heretofore, while
fifty nine localities estimate them
the same, and thirty six say there
are less. At the points reporting