The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-27
Value of Kansas Products in
1910 Shown.
Dairy Reports Are Incomplete
and Inaccurate.
WOOL CROP IS LARGER
Value of Cattle Half of All
Animals Sold.
Orchard Fruits Worth Nearly a
Million.

washington, d. c. Dec. 27.-Sta-
tistics for products of the state of
Kansas have just been completed and
presented in a bulletin issued by the
United States bureau of census.
The returns for live stock products
obtained at the census of 1910, like
those for crops, relate to the activities
of the calendar year 1903. 1t Is inn
possible to give a total representing
the annual production of live stock
products for the reason that the total
value of products from the business
of raising domestic animals for use,
sale, or slaughter can not be calculat-
ed from the census returns.
Dairy Products.
The number of farms in Kansas re-
porting dairy cows on April 10, 1910,
was 157,119, but only 1874, III reported
dairy products in 1909. That there
should be this difference is not sur
prising. Doubtless some farmers who
had dairy cows in 1910 had none in
1903, while other farmers neglected
to give information for the preceding
year, or were unable to do so, per-
haps because the farm was then in
other hands. Dairy products in gem
eral are somewhat less accurately re-
ported than the principal crops; This
is particularly the case as regards the
quantity of milk produced. The num-
Der of farms which made any report
of milk produced during 1909 was
tai number reporting dairy products),
and the number of dairy cows on such
farms on April Is, 1910, was 5S3, 900
The amount of milk reported was
172,743,000 gallons: assuming that
there were the same number OF cows
in 1909 as in 1910, this would repre-
sent an average of 296 gallons per
COW. In considering this average.
however, it should be borne in mind
that the quantity of milk reported is
probably deficient and that the dis
tinction between dairy and other cows
is not always strictly observed in the
census returns.
BY reason of the incompleteness of
the returns for milk produced, the
census bureau has made no attempt
to determine the total value of dairy
a partial total has been presented.
comprising the reported value of milk,
cream and butter and cheese made,
whether for home consumption or for
sale. The total thus obtained for
1909 is $13,092,000, which may be de-
fined as the total value of dairy pro-
ducts exclusive of milk and cream
used on the farms producing.
Only a small proportion of the milk
reported as produced on Kansas
farms in 1909 was sold as such. Com
paratively large quantities of milk
and cream. however, were sold on the
farms in 1909 was valued at $6,432,-
600.
Wool Value Grows.
The total number of sheep of shear
ing age in Kansas on April Is, 1910.
was 100000, representing an increaSe
of 1874 per cent as compared with the
number on June 1, 1900 (1SO.000)-
The approximate production of wool
Weighing 1.i7O.O00 pounds and val
ued at $257,O00. OF these totals about
two-fifths represent estimates. The
number of fleeces produced in 1909
0 -
The average weight per fleece in 1909
was IL pounds, as compared with SO
pounds in 1899. and the average value
per pound was % cents. as compared
Poultry Products.
The number of fowls on Kansas
farms on April Is, 1910, was 1916
900. OF the 1876 farms reporting
fowls 20,529 did not report any eggs
produced in 1909 and 21.2S0 did not
production Of eggs actually reported
for the year 1909 was 75,607,0OO doz-
ems, valued at $12,S37.O0O. Accord
ing to the twelfth census reports the
1915 dozens, the value being ST.
237, 900. The latter figures, however,
are somewhat in excess of the actual
returns at that census, because they
include estimates made to cover those
cases where the schedules reported
fowls on hand without reporting the
production of eggs. In order to make
the returns for 1909 comparable with
those published for 1899 similar esti-
mates have been made, the method of
estimate and the justification therefor
being substantially the same as in
the case of wool. The total produc-
tion of eggs in 1909, including these
estimates. was s1,659,0OO dozens val
ued at $13,S64, 900. The total pro-
duction of poultry in 1909, including
estimates made on the same basis as
at $9,3s2.000.
Animals Sold or Slaughtered.
The total value of domestic animals
sold during 1903 was S13O,737,OOO, and
that of animals slaughtered on farms
s7,186, 900, making an aggregate of
S137,e23,000.
The value of the cattle (including
sold during 1909 represented
about one-half of the total value of
all the animals sold, and the value of
swine sold represented less than one
third of the total.
The census of 1900 called for the
receipts from the sale of all domestic
raised on the farms report
ing and the total value of those
during 1899. which
amounted, respectively, to S64,597,OOO
and S5,S64,00O.
Total Crop Values
The total value of crops in Kansas
in 1909 was $214,s6O.OOO. Of this
amount, 9s.4 per cent. was contributed
by crops for which the acreage as well
as the value was reported. the remain
der consisting of the value of by
products (straw, garden and grass