The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-02
KANSAS IN OFFICIAL FIGURES.

/ KANSAS IN OFFICIAL FIGURES.
The Census Bureau has issued its Official bulletin
covering the products Of Kansas farms. The Topeka
Capital summarizes the entire bulletin in an editorial
The rImber OF this state 17S09S the number
Of in farms. 4l662970 which 2504055O i'm
proved; little over onehaf of the total area of Kansas
therefore is in improved farms; the value of farm prop
erty, is: land, s532197610 buildings $111465160;
pements and machinery, S29,49O.580 live stock $780,
956936 The Census reports for the census year the
total value of products Excluding amount to live
stick $161154292 The value of the products Fed c
live stock was S48741,250.
From the figures it is evident that live stock out
Of all comparison the chief industry Kansas Taking
the census figures sc million dollars. 46 per
cent Of the total value of farm products live
The net gain during the decade in the total of
farm property 1871 million dollars AS there was
scarcely appreciate immigration Of during
the decade these figures stand approximately for the
net profits Of the business. AS rule the profits Of
the farmers go into farms and improvements
These 1871 million dollars of profits added ST million
dollars worth of land improvements and buildings 101k
million dollars worth Of farm machinery and nipple
ments, and about CO million dollars of additional
live stock
The farmers branched out extensively in adding to
their acres. About liz million acres were added, all
told, and about million acres of prairie were broken
and improved
The Census Bureau makes no attempt to estimate
a
way the net increase in total values may be as
the mt profits The aggregate investment the begin
ming Of the decade $706664141, at the end of
the decade $S641O02S6 The net increase of 1871 mil
lion dollars was p 13 per cent average of about
per cent year over all expenses including living.
There are nineteen counties in the whose prod
ucts for the census year, excluding products fed to
live stock exceeded az million dollars. These accord
ing to their rank producers Reno 81 1873 824;
Sedgwick, s3,S26310; Marshall sS,794627; Jewell,
$S614511 Washington, $3,596273; Butler SO 497 $50
Nemaha, s3,415,9S3; Sumner 1901 1885, Lyon SO 036-
COS; Cowey, $3019555 Republic, s299612S; Dickinson
$29S3,445; Brown, s2,9n.59S; Mcpherson, $3.50 $685.
Usage, $2,885,S34 Greenwood. $2S36S77 Pottawatome
s2S95S84; Wabaunsee $2,747719; Shawnee 81 571 219
and Cloud, 81 56665S
In total value Of land farms not Including build
ings, twenty-five counties exceed value of million
dollars, ranking as follows:
Brown, $l3,425,S2O Marshall s18403O2O; Nemaha
$l2603 49, Sedgwick, s1259O490; Johnson s1137SSs0;
Washington, S1125549O; Sumner, s11OO39SO Butler
$lOSSL6+o; Reno, s10,786.240 Pottawatomie s1O637
$50; Mcpherson, $1020287O; Cowley $1016852O; Shaw
nee $9S84330 Lyon. sSS6513O; jefferson $SSl65sO:
Usage, s8696S10; Atchson. $S497 23O; Miami ss47o
900 Republic $S46356O; Jackson. $S4462OO; Dickinson
$SS99940; Jewell $s39715o Leavenworth. $S.ss6590;
Doniphan. $S,32749o and Marion sS29765O
In live stick the leading counties Of the state rank
as follows: Butler. S54s38S6 Greenwood s5298 s76.
$48OO415; Lyon s4O382O1; Chase s8S5l
977 Cowley $3S33175; Pottawaome IS $50 4O5; Reno
$9633037; Marshall $3463sS7; Washington sS496424:
Jewell $8346o96; Usage s327s32s; Norris $3252 372
Nemaha, S3,2ss3S7; sedgwick $9.1S6S7s, and Marion
$30s6051
From these figures value of lands live stock and
products. Marshall to be the first agricultural
county in Kansas with Sedgwick second Nemaha third
Brown fourth and Reno 9th
OF 17309s farms in the a AT or 4 per cent
occupied and farmed By their owners and 3434 are
farmed by in part while % per cent or 1875
farms armed by shares and 10 per cent
or 17,I41 farms farmed by cash tenants During
the decade from 1890 1909 the number Of farms ared
by owners decreased per cent share tenants increased
Il cent and cash tenants increased IS per cent
There are 1882 farmers state 1876 of whom
own their farms and 81 are part owners.
The Census reports that Of the 175.09S farms live
stock IS the chief source Of income Of 793OS and hay
and grain OF 75.S07.
methods Of which the expenditure Of ten times
Is much for fertilizer in 1898 as in 1888 Labor on Kan
as farms is reported at little less than II million dol
during the year this including wages and value Of
BOARD furnished. The average wages and board paid
N the average farm amounted to but Sos in year,
emarkably small figure.
King Edwards first remark when he regained con
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