Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-08-11
ACRICUL TURAL STANDING OF
WOOD COUNTY IN BLUE BOOK
Also Many Other important Facts Concerning the
State according to the Last Statistics
ObtainabIe.

The following tire the latest
statistics of agriculture for WooC
county, according to the 1903 Blue
Book:
Number of farms, 1859; number OF
farms with buildings, 1926; number
of acres in improved farms, 91,966
value of land and Improvements
$1,000, TO; value of buildings, 1,234, 440
value of implements and machinery
$273, ,2l0; value of live stock on farms
S782,398 value of products not fed tC
live stock, S795, l64.
Expenditures for labor, SCI, ,170
expenditures for fertilizers, $940.
Average size of farms, 1l5.1 acres
number of persons who own theiI
farms, 2, 1856; part owners, 81; number
of colored persons owning farms, 1.
Value of domestic animals, S76O, 1853
amount received from the sale of live
stock, Sl03,076.
Number Of colts under one year,
two years and over, 4,671; num-
Der of dairy COWS of two years and
over, 8,548; number OF lambs and
sheep, 10,825; number of swine, $3.50.
Number of pounds of butter made,
490,064; number of pounds sold, 262. 3O6:
number of pounds cheese made,
Ee eco pnp,bor of Wounds cold "A 81 Q.
number of gallons milk produced,
10,472.213; number of gallons sold,
6,396,977
Value of poultry, SIT 1850; dozens of
eggs produced, 32S, $50.
Swarms of bees, 1923; value of bees,
$4385; pounds of honey produced,
36,37O; pounds of wax produced; 500.
Number of fleeces of wool shorn,
6,37S; pounds of wool, 44,640.
Acreage of barley, 1,754; of buck
wheat, S32; of corn, 4,763; of oats,
1889; of rye, SAT-; of wheat, 2,2S9.
Number of bushels of barley, 42,500;
of buckwleat, 1920; of corn, 1890; of
oats, 331, TAO; of rye, 1880; OF wheat,
81, ,240.
Tons of wild grass, 8,377; of millet,
274; of clover, 1,105; other tame and
cultivated grasses, 2S,072; grains cut
green for hay, 447; forage crops, 1887.
Number acres of potatoes, 4,169
onions, 8; other vegetables, 354; num-
Der of bushels of potatoes, 273,625; OF
onions 2,160; of other vegetables,
14,S05.
Number of acres of cranberries
1,766; number of barrels, 34,l76.
Number of apple trees g. 1872; cherry
trees, l65; number of bushels of apples,
sol.
Number of quarts of raSpberries,
1880; quarts of strawberries, 80, ,290.
State Agricultural Statistics.
The portion of the book devoted TIC
agricultural statistics shows that in
1900 there were 1859, ,795 farms in the
state, with total acreage of 1882,
727 acres, of which 1,246,97 acres
were classified as improved land. The
total value of farm property in that
year is given at $Sl1, PIG, of which
$500, 542, 500 is in land and improve.
ments, buildings not included. Farm
buildings for that year were valued at
$685. $40, live stock was valued at
800, 1927 ,649. farm implements and
machinery at S29, ,227 900. The total
value of farm products was 1857, 442, 713
Of which amount S4l,5S3,75O re-
presented what was fed to live stock
Factories.
That part Of the blue book devoted
to manufacturing shows that in 1906
there were 16, l67 factories in WiScon
sin, representing total of $3.50, 55S, 77S
Of invested capital. These factories
gave employment to 142.076 wage
earners, who were paid total o
$5S, ,407, ,597 for their work last year
The total cost of material used b,
these factories was $20S, 1888, l67, Will,
the value of the manufactured produc
amounted to $500, ,S1S,9 ,942.
Post Offices.
The page under the heading of post
offices are devoted to list of the post
offices of the state which now numbe
1,720. OF these five are in the frs
class, 36 in the second class, 124 in th
third class, aud 1,555 in the fourtl
class.