The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-07

ley, which produced 165, us bushels.
The value of the apples exported by
our farmers last year was $242 SIG.
The enumerators of the last census re-
ported AZ frog farms.
The farmers of our country raised in
1889 2,S12,437 bushels of Canada peas.
The sugar naples of the United States
yielded in. 1893 1920, 900 pounds.
Arkansas has LOG acres planted in bar
| ley, with product of 1894 bushels
Missouri raised in 1890 45O,S31 bushels
of fax seed and 1,458 pounds of fiber.
Most of the beet sugar made in this
country is manufactured in California.
Kansas raised in 1890, 994,127 bushels
of flax seed and 36,093 pounds of fiber
Arizona has the smallest number Of
improved acres on her farms, 1O4,128.
The egg product of this country is esti-
mated at $150,000,000 per annum.
The farms of Arkansas produced in 1889
$58, 12S, 155 worth of cotton and grains.
In 1889 there were 28,320,677 acres of
oats sown and yield of SO9, $50 666 bush
els.
In 1893 there were produced in the
United States $4,000 pounds of sorghum
sugar.
Missouri grew in the census year thirty
one tons of hemp from seventy-nine
acres
The first rye producing state is Penn
sylvania, with 336,O41 and 3,742, 164 BUSH
els.
Nebraska, according to the last census,
had 113, sos farms, having q, 500, 444 acres.
Illinois claims the largest number of
improved acres on her farms, having
So ,669,06
The farms Of Kansas produced in the
census year an estimated value of $685.
O7O,OSO.
The increase in fruit farms in this coun-
try has been mainly in the West and
Southwest.
Nevada has the smallest number of
farms Of any state-1,277, with 1,061, 416
acres.
The beet sugar manufactured in this
country in 1898 amounted to 27,083, 1922
pounds.
Missouri returned at the last census
2,61S acres of broom corn, yielding 1,O51.-
139 pounds.
The best rice-producing state is Louisi-
ana, having S4,377 acres producing 75,-
645, 433 pounds
The farms of Missouri produced in the
census year an estimated product of $780,
ISL ,O24.
Missouri ranks first in mules. having
in the last census year PSI, ia; the next
being Texas, with 227 ,432, and the third
Tennessee, with 203,639.
According to the details furnished by
the eleventh census, the estimated value
of all the farm products raised in this
country in 1889 was $2,46O, 1O7,454.
In the value of stock the state Of Iowa
stands first, having $206, 436, 242 invested
Illinois is second, with $3.50, 431 ,662; Mis-
souri, is third, with $13S, 7O1,1 73
Maryland, Massachusetts and Vermont
are returned in the census reports as
each having one acre in fax, New Jersey
and Kansas each having two.
The buckwheat of Missouri in the CEN
sus year amounted to 2,802 acres and
28,440 bushels.
England has steadily declined for a num-
Der of years.
Missouri produced, according to the last
census year, 3OS,SO7 bushels of rye from
"a 283 acres.
Arizona has the smallest amount of
money invested in fences and farm build
ings, the total in that commonwealth be-
ing $7,222,23O.
In 1890 the value of all farm implements
and machinery in the United States was
| $494 ,247, 467.
Texas returned to the census collector
2,7S2 acres as planted in barley, with a
product of 1852.
In 1890 our farmers planted 1920, 1884
acres Of barley, which produced 1882 ,976
bushels of the grain.
When the last census was taken there
were only ffty-one mules in the state of
Rhode Island -
The acreage of wheat in 1889 was So
579,514, and the yield of that year was
6S,373,968 bushels.
The rice fields of 1889 comprised 1871
312 acres, and the yield of that year was
12S ,590,934 pounds.
Our farmers in 1889 planted PHI. 6O4
bushels of rye, and obtained a yield of
28,421 1893 bushels.
Texas is first in cattle, with 6,2O1 ,552:
Iowa is second with 4.S95,55O; Kansas is
third, with 3,1SS,033.
Illinois has most farm horses, 1885 ,289;
Iowa comes second, with 1,312,O79; Texas
is third, with 1,026,002.
The value of the fruits, excepting apples
and nuts, exported by our farmers last
year was $2,1S1,622.
Our farmers in 1889 planted 50,212
acres of hops, from which they realized
39,171 ,270 pounds of the product.
When the last census was taken there
were 203,946 acres planted in peanuts,
producing 3,58S,143 bushels.
The number of acres planted in cotton
in 1889 was 20,175,270; the number of
bales raised in that year was 7,472, 511.
According to the eleventh census, there
were sown in 1889 25,054 acres of hemp,
which produced II ,511 tons of fiber.
Kentucky is the largest hemp growing
state, having 23,468 acres planted in this
o;oL,
In 1889 sos ,301 acres of our country
land were planted in tobacco, and in that
same year 4SS ,646 pounds were raised.
In 1889 1,318,69S acres were planted in
flax, which produced 10,25O, 41O bushels
of faxseed and 241, 3S9 pounds of fiber.
Iowa is the first in mich kline, with
1.49S,418; New York being second, with
1,44O, 23O; and Illinois third, with 1887
1856.
BY the last census there were S37,164
acres of buckwheat sown in the United
States, producing yield Of 12,110, 349
bushels.
BY the estimate of the eleventh census
enumerators, there were, in 1889, $780,
125,567 gallons of milk yielded by our
COWS.
BY the eleventh census the value of all
farm buildings, fences and other i'm
provements was estimated at $13,279,-
252, 649.
Missouri has 14,006 working oxen, or
1908 teams, causing every year 100 times
that numebr Of prOfane expressions from
the drivers.
New York is first in beams, raising
1.111,510 bushels; California being sec
ond with 713 ,4S0 bushels; Michigan being
third with 434014 bushels.
The number Of fieeces taken from our
sheep in the fall of 1889 and spring of
| 1890 WAS 80 126 1853 which made 165 449 :