The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-19
CONNECTICUTF FARM PRODUCTS
Bulletin Giving Statistics of Live Stock Products and General Farm
 Crop Data.

DuElStIlA NE1tAIIS foldL1Sl1CS OA A4AEC oNOO'N | Products and General Farm Crop Data.
 i Statistics for farm productn for l Connecticut are presented in bulle- { tin soon to be. issued by 13cectec | Durand of the Bureau of the Census 1 Department of Commerce and Labor.
 It was prepared under the supervls- | ion of John Lee Coulter, expert Spe- cial agent for agriculture.
 1 The returns for live stock products
 obtained at the census of 1910, like
 those for crops, relate to the activi-
 ties of, the calendar year 1909. It is | impossible tc 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 dom eetic animals for use, | sale, or slaughter can not be calcu- i lated from the census returns.
 | Dairy Products.
 The number of farms in Connecti- i cut reporting dairy cows on April Is, 1910, was 2O,844, but only 17,s12 reported dai try products in 1909. That there should be this difference is not surprising. Doubtless some farmers who had dairy cows in 1910 had none in 1909, while otheE~farmers neglect ed to give information for the pre- ceding year or were unable to do so, perhaps because the farm was then in 1 other hands. Dairy products in gen.
 era1 are somewhat less accurately re
 ported than the principal crops This 1 is particularly the case as regards the quantity of milk produced. The num- l Der of farms which made any report
 of milk produced during 1909 was 15,324 (somewhat less than the total number reporting dairy products1, and the number of dairy cows on such farms on April 15, 1910, was 33,874. The amount of milk reported was 45,75O,0O0 gallons. Assuming that there were the same number of cows in 1909 as in 1910, this would represent an average of 4s7 gallons
 per COW. In considering this average, however, 1t should be borne in min d l that the quantity of milk reported is tinction between dairy and other cows l is not always strictly observed in the l census returns.
 By reason of the incomp1eteness 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
 and cream sold as such and sold on the butter fat basis, and the reported
 value of butter and cheese made,
 whether for home consumption or for
 sale The total thus obtained for 1909
 as the total value of dairy products,
 exclusive of milk and cream, used on
 the farm producing.
 l. About three-fourths of the milk l produced in Connecticut was sold as such. A comparatively large quan- 1 tity of milk and cream was sold on 1 the DuIC6T-IaC DaS1S, The butter made
 on farms in 1909 was valued at $1,- | 078,0O0.
 The total number of sheep of shear | ing age in Connecticut on April 15,
 with the number on June 1, 1900 (23,-
 021.) The approximate production of
 wool during 1909 was 13,46o feeces,
 weighing 71,272 pounds, and valued
 at $1S.530. Of these totals about one
 fifth represents estimates. The num-
 Der of fleeces produced in 1909 was
 average weight per fleece in 1909 was
 5.3 pounds, as compared with 4.5
 pounds in 1899, and the average value
 per pound was, 26 cents, as compared with 22 cents in 1899.
 Poultry Products.
 The total number of fowls on Con
 necticut farms on April IS, 1910. was
 1,266,0OO. Of the 23,214 farms re- any eggs produced in 1909 and 3,31O ] did not report any poultry raised in 1909. The production of eggs actually
 reported for the year 1909 was 7,-
 SS3,OOO dozens, valued at $2,279,OOO. According to the Twelfth Census re- ports the production of eggs in 1899
 was 7,959,ooo dozens, the value being
 $1,523,0OO The latter figures, how yer, are somewhat in excess of the actual returns at that census, because | they include estimates made to cover l ported fowls on hand without Feport4 ling the production of eggs. In order
 to make the returns for. 1909 com parable with those published for 1899 | similar estimates have been made, the method of estimate and the justifiea- | ton therefor being substantially the same as in the case of wool. The
 total production of eggs in 1909, in
 c1uding these estimates, was s8,56e, ,006 dozens, valued at $2,476,00 The total production of poultry in 1909, including estimates made on the same | basis as in the case of eggs, was D. 046, 900 fowls, valued at s1,375,0O0.
 Animals Sold or Slaughtered.
 The total value of domestic animals sold during 1909 was $2,688,000 and that of animals slaughtered on farms l $753, 900, making an aggregate of $3,- | 441,000. This total, however, involves considerable duplication, resulting
 from the resale slaughter of ami
 ma1S which had been purchased by the farmers during the same year. The value of the cattle including calves) sold during 1909 represented about 80 per cent of the total value of animals sold.
 The census of 1900 called for the receipts from the sale of all domestic lanimals raised on the farms reporting land the total value of those slaugh-