Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-04
COUNTY RICH IN
HER PRODUCTS.
AUDITOR STEVENS COMPLETES
ANNUAL REPORT OF STATS.
TICS FOR STATE.
THE HEN A FACTOR
Over 100000 Dozen Of Eggs Produced
Last Year-Corn Yield Was
Over 100000 Bushels
1,716 Farms.

Wapello county needs but little I'M
less it is clothing materials to supply
practically all of her needs if she were
to use all of her own products for the
average year, and not sell them. So
much at least one Is given to believe
from perusal of the annual report
of County Auditor James F. Stevens
for the past year, which was just COM
pleted yesterday and sent to the sec
rotary of the department of agricul-
ture at Des Moines. The totals shown
in the different items enumerated by
the assessors for the benefit of the
auditors report gives horse for about
every four persons shown in the CEN
sus for the county and as to poultry
of every kind, there are nearly ten
to each inhabitant. The supply OF eggs
produced in the county should give
every inhabitant an omelet for every
day in the year. AS for hogs, cattle,
sheep, ETC., there is plenty to go
around and even the wool from her
sheep reaches more than forty tons.
The corn yield is more than 2,000,0O0
bushels.
:. The Report.
The report in full shows the follow
ing:
Crop and farm statistics.
NO. or farms .......... 49,. ,ilo
Total acreage in FARMS. .212, 45O
Total occupied by farm build
ings and feed lots ,108
Total acreage of corn ....... 50,931k
Total yield corn, bushels. ;. .2,213,0S2
Total acreage oats ........ .3l, R
Total yield oats, bushels. :. ). 573, $50
Total acreage winter wheat. Abb
Total yield winter wheat, bu.. $4,000
Total acreage spring wheat. -. .524A
Total yield spring wheat, bu.. 1852
Total acreage barley ............. 1888
Total yield barley, bushels. -. .9,571
Total acreage rye ............. 312A
Total yield rye, bushels. ........ PAL
Total acreage hay (tame) -. "a, 728h
Total yield hay (tame) tons. SO, 121
Total acreage hay (wild) ........ .27
Total yield hay wild tons. .28
Total acreage alfalfa ...............2
Total yield alfalfa, tons. IS
Total acreage potatoes 1854
Total yield POTATOES, bu. ...... .65. 1854
Total acreage sweet corn. :..... 40
Total tons gathered green for
canning ................. ..... lab
Total average, pop corn. .......... 3
Total yield pop corn. bu. >. SO
Total acreage, pasture, 1910. .78,471h
Total acreage, orchard, 1910. .2,254A
Total acreage. garden, 1910. .30zA
Total No. silos on farms. ....... FL
Total acreage timothy cut for
Total yield timothy, bu. ,s5s
Total acreage clover cut for
seed 1851
Total yield clover, bu. ...... .1,378h
Total acreage in crops not other
wise enumerated ............ 657k
Average monthly wage paid for
farm help:
Summer months .......... .$338.77
Winter months $50. ....... 268.78
Live stock and poultry:
Total No. horses, all ages. 1901
Total No. Mules, all ages. ....... .587
Total No. hogs on farms July
l, 1910 42,066
Total No. cattle. all ages. 80. .23,4S7
Total No. cattle-sold for slaughter $3.50
Total No. cows MIXED. ...... .6,957
Total No. sheep kept on farms II, 12S
Total No. sheep shipped in for
Total No. sheep sold for slaughter 5,273
Total lbs. of wool sold. ....... 81, 404
Total all varieties of poultry on
farms July l., 1910 .322,704
Total doz. eggs received. -. .643,663