Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1902-11-29

a Surprise in Secretary Ceburn's
Figures on the Amount and Value
of Crops Of Kansas for 1902.


Of the crops for 1902 are as follows:
Winter and spring wheat, bushels,
s4,649, 236; value, $29,139, 4o0.17.
Corn, bushels, 2O1,367,102; value,
Sill, 6O3, 576.3s.
Oats, bushels, s2,06e,114; value, So
564, 254.35.
Rye, bushels, s,72s,29e; value, ST.
584, 321.31.
Barley, bushels, 2.1ss.07a; value.
ss01, ss1.e9.
Buckwheat. bushels, 2,77O; value,
$2,21s.
Irish and sweet potatoes, bushels,
s,7a3,511; value, S3,471 ,344.12.
Castor beans, bushels, 400; value,
$500.
Cotton, pounds, 1as,oO5; value, So
s20.s5.
Flax, bushels 1,427,s75; value, ST.
713,57O.
Hemp, pounds, 10000; value, $s.1o.
Tobacco. pounds, 1880; value, ST.
SIS.
Broom corn, pounds, 16,ss4,2o5;
value, $495,640.15.
Millet and Hungarians tons, 4oo,1so,
value, $1,445.415.
Sorghum for strip, gallons, 1,7ss.-
zoo; value, S663,114.
Sorghum, kafir corn, Milo maize
and Jerusalem corn for forage, value,
s12, 73S,694.
Tame hay, sO3,sa4 tons; value, g.
$4,000.
Prairie Hay, s2o,e37 tons; value, So
2sA,54s.
Wool clip, e47,427 pounds; value.
s97,114.o5.
Cheese, butter and milk, value, S..
412,217.65.
Poultry and eggs sold, value, S..
706,352.
Animals slaughtered or sold fos
slaughter, value, $51,346,5s9.
Horticultural and garden products
and wine, value, $1,995, 550.50.
Honey and beeswax, 403, 155 poundss
value, s60,631.20.
Wool marketed, value, $1s6,150.
Total value, $249, 150,01s.
Numbers and values of live stock:
Horses, 811,594; value, $51, 1904
Mules and asses, 1851; value, %
es6,97O.
Mich cows, 7s1,s44; value, $23,755-
800.
Other cattle, 42,555,sOo; value, ss1.
$4,000.
Sheep, 136,75s; value, s41o,25s.
Swine, 1927, 1902; value, $11, 775,241.5o
Total value, $155, 1O7,412.
Grand total, $404,25s,331.
The net increase in value of this
years agricultural productions owe,
that of 1901 is s53,s96,26s. and Of live
stock $2,O69, $50, or a total net In
crease for the year Of $55.965.94s. or
1907 per cent. In two years the In
crease In value Of agricultural pro
auctions has been SCI, 354,512, and OF
live stock $11,649, $50. The total I'm
crease over the values Of three years
before amounts to SOL, 352,952.
The quantity Of old corn in farm
ers' hands on March was 7,724,sA
bushels. The year before 1t was
35,121,339 bushels, and two years DO
fore 4s,252, e67 bushels.
The quantity of old wheat in farm
ers' hands on March was 9,664,59s
bushels; the year previous, 7,9o6,55e
bushels, and two years previous, ~
e24,o2S bushels.
. The yield of winter wheat was 81
323, $3.50 bushels. It's home value IL
given at $2s, es3 ,943.60. The area sown
as returned by township assessors In
March, was 6,254,474 acres. The ares
reported as probably sown for next
years crop is 6,oeo,1Oa acres, being
decrease of 234,644 acres, or 81 pen
cent. below last years sowing, which
was much the largest ever reported
The shrinkage in spring wheat sow
ing so conspicuous annually OF lats
years is again strikingly in evidence
this wear with but 46,203 acres, and
yield of 325,397 bushels, worth 1885,
546.57.
The corn area Of 6,9so,764 acres
(which includes the 5,919,590 acre: re
ported by assessors, plus 1,071,lW
acres of the plowed-up wheat land
stated by correspondents as having
been planted in corn), yielded so1s
se7io2 bushels, worth s111,60S,s76.SS
The yield Of oats is nearly 80 pen
cent. greater than last years, or 49,
se6, ia bushels, ands the largest since
1892. The yield on the considerably
diminished area, 6o,61S acres, was
s,1oa ,6s2 bushels. the largest and best
crop by far since 1889, with value o.
$s,1s6,s56.71.
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