The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-04-05

is In the hands Of people whose In.
creased income directly benefits Nor
place Of the county
The price of Madison county land
per acre Is listed as follows: Best til
liable land, $50 to 500. fair tilablc land
$35 to $50; hay land, $50 to SEQ. graz.
ing land $l5 to $40.
Improved land In the county amounts
to 2SS, 1895 acres, unimprovcd land G5,.
G2G acres. The total cultivated area
~ placed at 2lG,317 acres. There la
no government land vacant in the
county, while the state school land
numbers 1865 acres.
Corn and oats form the bulk OF the
cereals raised In Madison county.
And the best feature is that com.
pnrativcly little Of either crop Ia
shipped from the county II stays in
Madison county and helps make fat
steers and sheep and hogs, netting
second profit to the county, profit
which rebounds to the advantage OF
every interest In the county.
In 1906 9G,5S0 acres produced 1898
$50 bushels of corn. The bulk OF this
was fed for the second profit. In 1906
the figures showed only 737S57 bush.
els shipped. In oats 1855 acres pro-
duccd 2,S05,l92 bushels, with the ship
mcnt of onts standing at Si0,1S bush
els. Nearly n hundred thousand bush
els of potatoes was raised from S23
acres In 1906 with about 1000 bushels
listed as the average shipment
Madison county farmers last year
raised l2i,3GG bushels of wheat from
G.i37 acres devoted to the growth Of
that cereal $4,000 bushels of wheat
was shipped from the county In 1906
From 27O acres planted In barley last
year 9,GGG bushels of barley was Sc
CurcdE 2l.O97 bushels of rye was
raised ON l2il acres Alfalfa Is
crop raised in Madison county for
home consumption. The alfalfa acre
age last year was 2Il9 acres and tho
successive crops brought G,992 tons of
alfalfa hay to the farmers of the coun-
ty.
During 1905 1884 head Of cattle,
Gl939 head of hogs, 5,S7S head of
sheep and 1850 head Of horses and
mules were shipped from Madison
county The benefits which a com
munity derives from the raising and
sale of live stock are to be caSsed
with the benefits which IL secures from
any industry that turns raw products
into finished goods and finds added
profit In the sale of the final product
An inventory of the live stock of
Madison county If taken on June |,
1906, would have given the following
figures; Cattle, 425S4 head; hogs,
1896; sheep, 3,d26; horses, 1O,552;
= mules, 5Sl.
The shipment of 2,3ii, 900 pounds Of
-four from Madison county in 1905,
, for which year figures are available,
, was one means Of bringing revenue
into the county The shipment Of 9th
or miscellaneous products during the
year was as follows Mil feed, 24O,.
600 pounds; live poultry, 2O7 .SGi
pounds; eggs, 10000 dozen; butter,
: 19,GiJ pounds; dressed poultry, 1923
: pounds.
I Last year Norfolk shipped its first
. carload Of apples assigned to an out
, side market While the expectation of
9 fruit to outside markets has never in
, the past been extensively attempted
there are nevertheless many orchards
OF fruit trees in the county. The sta
y tistics OF the Madison county orchards
give the county 1884 apple trees, II :
59G cherry trees, 1907 plum trees,
3lOO peach trees and S14 pear trees.
The figures set forth here are the
, official figures compiled from authent.
ic sources by the state bureau of sta
70 fistics, The figures are live figures as
= far as Norfolk is concerned for they
. tell the story of the big agricultural
j workshop of which Norfolk in a bust
= ness way is a part. The mutual SER
vices which the city and county per-
form for each other brings them close
! together The interests OF our pros.
porous agricultural community on one
hand and of the thriving energetic
towns of the county on the other hand
are virtually the same. What pros.
+ pers the county will prosper Madison
e Newman Grove, Battle Creek Tilden
s and Meadow Grove. The interests OF
s all unite with Norfolk's interests and
t the resources of the whole county are
n common property in a way.