Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-11-28
MORE WHEAT, LESS CORN.
Figures ON the Amount and Value

| Inc aggregate value of farm prod
| ucts and live stock reaches the enor
nous sum of $4O4, 25S,33o, an increase
of $55 ,965,946 over last year. These
| figures were given out by Secretary
| Coburn, of the Kansas agricultural
| department.. The amount and value
of the crops for 1902 are as follows:
| Winter and spring wheat, bushels
| 54,649, 236; value, $29, 139. 49O.17.
Corn, bushels, POI, 1867, 102; value
Sill, 500, 576.3S.
Oats, bushels, 32,966, ia; value, So
| 5e4.254.35.
Rye, bushels, 3,72s,2 96; value, ST..
| 4,321.31.
Barley, bushels, 2,1ss,s73; value,
| 1901, 3s1.69.
Buckwheat, bushels, AFRO; value
$2,216.
Irish and sweet potatoes, bushels,
| s,733, 511; value, $3,471, 344.12
| Castor beans, bushels, 400; value,
$500.
Cotton, pounds, 1a6,OO5; value, So
52O.35.
Flax, bushels 1,427,975; value, ST.
1850.
Hemp, pounds, 10000; value, $6.10.
| Tobacco, pounds, $3.50; value, ST.
SIS
Broom corn, pounds, 1854, POS;
value. $495, 64O.15.
Millet and Hungarian, tons, 400, 100;
value, $1,445,415.
Sorghum for sirup, gallons, 1,732,-
200; value, $663,114.
Sorghum, kaffir corn, Milo maize
| and Jerusalem corn for forage, value,
$12,73S, 694.
Tame hay, sO3,934 tons; value, $4,-
2s,6o4.
Prairie Hay, s2o,637 tons; value, 49,
292, 54S.
Wool clip, 647,427 pounds; value,
$97,114.05.
Cheese, butter and milk, value, S.
| 412,217.65.
Poultry and eggs sold, value, So
7O6,352.
Animals slaughtered or sold for
slaughter, value, $51, 346,5 $50.
Horticultural and garden products
and wine, value, $1,995, 55O.5O.
Honey and beeswax, 4O3, 155 pounds;
| value, sec, 631. 20.
Wool marketed, value, $1S6,15O.
Total value, $249, 15O.91s.
Numbers and values of live stock:
Horses, S11, 594; value, $51 100, i22.
Miles and asses, 95,611; value, Sc
SOC, 1870.
Mich cows, 791, s44; value, $23,755,
800.
Other cattle, 42,555,s0O; value, $751;
339, 200.
Sheep, 1853; value, $41O,259.
Swine, 1,427, 1902; value, $11, 775, 241.5o
Total value, 1855, 1O7,412.
Grand total, $4O4, 258, 1871.
The net increase in value of this
years agricultural productions over
that of 1901 is 1896. 266, and of live
stock So ,O69, $50, or a total net in
crease for the year of $55,965,946, OF
1907 per cent. In two years the in.
crease in value of agricultural pro-
auctions has been SOL 1854, SIP, and OF
live stock $11 $40, $50. The total in
crease over the values of three years
before amounts to $1o1, ,952.
The quantity of old corn in farm
ers' hands on March was 7,724, 9422
bushels. The year before it was
1921 1889 bushels, and two years be-
fore As, 252, 667 bushels.
The quantity of old wheat in fern
crs' hands on March 1 was $685., 595
bushels; the year previous, 7,996,55
bushels, and two years previous, A.
s24, 1928 bushels.
The yield of winter wheat was 54,-
323, $3.50 bushels. It's home value is
given at $2S, 1888, 943.6O. The area sown,
as returned by township assessors in
March, was 6,254, 474 acres. The area
reported as probably sown for next
years crop is 5000, 1O3 acres, being
decrease of 234,644 acres, or 81 per
cent below last years sowing, which
was much the largest ever reported.
The shrinkage in spring wheat SOW
ing so conspicuous annually of late
years is again strikingly in evidence,
this year with but 1929 acres, and a
Weld of 325, 1897 bushels, worth $685.,
1851
The Corn area of 6,99O,764 acres
(which includes the 5,919,590 acres re-
ported by assessors, plus LOLITA
acres of the Plowed-up wheat land
stated by correspondents as having
been planted in corn), yielded 2o1.-
367,1 bushels, worth Sill, sos. 576.3s.
The yield of oats is nearly so per
cent. greater than last years, or 3d.
966,114 bushels, and the largest since
1892 The yield on the considerably
diminished area, 60,61s acres, was
S,193,632 bushels, the largest and best
crop by far since 1889, with value of
So, 1876, S56.71.
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