People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
corn in the county. The ground is
wet clear down and nnst of the corn

! corn III Tue county. Tue ground is
wet clear down and most of the corn
is listed. Twenty-Five bushels to the
acre is a fair estimate, that means
1851, $50 addition to the wealth of the
farmers, if the price remains at 20
cents.
There are 66 acres of growing barley
in the county and 22,927 acres of oats.
There are 775 acres of Irish potatoes
and Sc of sweet; 20 acres of fax, three
of hemp, and one Of tobacco. The
tobacco patch is in Palestine town
ship, between Oxford and Belle
Plaine. There are l07 acres of broom
corn and 1921 of millet and Hungar-
ian. fhe number of acres of sorghum
planted is 5,S4S, only POS acres of it to
be used for sugar or syrup. The farm
ers have plenty OF money to buy sugar
and mOlaSSeS, and the balance of
5,643 acres was planted for forage and
feed. Thirty acres of milo maize is
planted. Katfir corn is planted this
year TO the extent Of 5,32l acres.
Jerusalem corn, only 10 acres. The
farmers Uf the county had l,256,j52
bushels Of good sound ear and shelled
corn on hand the lst Of March when
the assessor caught them. Part of
that has since been given and shipped
to India to feed the starving, and
still there is enough left to tide over
another short Corn crop. The number
of bushels of wheat in the bins March
|, were Ill ,42S.
The aggregate number of acres of
grass under cultivation in the county,
are as follows: Timothy. 6; clover, 6;
blue grass, q; alfalfa, l,5l6; orchard
grass, 3; other tame grasses, l02. Total
number, 1854. There are l27,264
acres Of prairie under fence and used
sOlely for meadows.
The number Of tons of tame hay cut
last year were 2, 9l5; prairie hay, 1919.
The value of all garden products
marketed during the year which
closed March l, so far as the assessors
could find out, is s., 73l. The value of
poultry and eggs sold during the same
period was SSS,l7S
Sumner county is not slow in eating
cheese. There were 1856 pounds
manufactured and eaten by private
families in the county last year. We
marketed 674,559 pounds Of butter in
the same period and probably spread
twice that much on flap jacks, corn
cake and biscuits.
The number of pounds Of cheese
made in factories in the county for
the year ending March !, is 1875. All
except 70 pounds of this was made in
Greene township. The Wellington
creamery turned out 1900 pounds Of
butter from the time il was started
last year until March l, '97.
The value of milk sold during the
year ending March l, exclusive Of that
sold to cheese factories and creaTerieS
is $5,537.
On March l last there were 6,949
horses in the county outside OF the
city of Wellington. There were also
2,l06 asses, 1886 milk cows, and 10, 239
head of other cattle. There are $50
sheep in the county, confined to Eden,
Seventy-SiX, Palestine, Oxford, Av n
and Dixon townships. Two thousand,
three hundred and Sixty-twO pounds
of wool were clipped from them last
year.
There are 45 ,391 swine in the county,
worth at least halt a million dollars
in gold.
The value of all animals fattene1
and sold for slaughter during the year
ending March l, is 1854 1852.
The number of apple, pear, peach,
plum and cherry trees in the county
are shown in the following table: