The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1912-01-05

ICpOitiuS sudlTy COWS, duu tU.2 per
cent, "other cows.'' The total num-
Der of COWS, especially dairy cows"
increased materially during the de-
cade, while the average values re-
NAMED almost constant. The average
number of dairy cowsr per farm re-
porting is about 6, whils the average
number of "other cows" per farm re-
porting is nearly IL.
Horses and colts srs reported by
9..2 per cent of all the farmers in the
state, yearlings by 4o.3 per cent, and
in spite of the early date of enumer-
alton, spring colts by 1s.e Stdpicent.
Mature horses are valuedefiI. lrrly
two and one half times tRly folIow's
reported in 1900. Only about 6faiI.i e.
in every 100 report mules and mule
colts but the average values are con-
siderable higher than those of horses
of the corresponding age groups.
Sheep and lambs are reported from
5,159 farms or 60 of all the farms in
the state, whereas 1871 per cent of all
farms reported sheep in 1900 of the
farms reporChg sheep and lambs in
1910 only 6qieper cent report spring
lambs, the 'ee!mber of the latter be-
ing equal all q per cent of the num-
ber of ewe of This small proportion
is doubtless 40 to the early date of
enumeration
The averae flock in the state, ex-
cluding the ! ng lambs, consists OF
81 sheep, whi;n in 1900 it consisted of
70. The ayeha9e number of ewes is
over "a per fsed reporting that class,
and the fam until porting rams and
wethers shlcura Sgverage of about 35
per farm. our nc
OF all fat iessf9 per cent report
swine, tn, age number being
about Il p.his sh4 reporting. On ac-
count of t.. sly safe of enumeration
only 26.6 p,l5-- report spring pigs.
The average S-->Se swine report
ed as ''hogs a. ~//horn before
January /, 1910, sl25>%bx@
The increase. in th psf fowls
on South Dakota farmsI ne last
decade amounts to 95.2 per cell while
the value increased from $S75, 900 to
81 1856, ZOO or IT'S per cent. Chickens
constituted over 90 percent of the
number and value of all poultry in
1910 and increased over go per cent in
number since 1900. The number OF
farms repor ing Increased from II to
S5. The valae of poultry and the
number of farms reporting were OBJ
tanned ia 1900 for the total of all fowls
only and not for each kind, as in 1910
The number of farms reporting bees
has increased from 387 in 1900 to 1 ,35t
in 1910, 250.1 per cent. The number
of colonies of bees increased from q
063 to 6. .565 or 1882 per cent and theil
value increased from $40. .0SS to S31, ,65(
or 2l3.7 per cent. The average value
OF bees per farm reporting was $500
in 1900 and S23. SO in 1915. About two
farms in every hundred report bees
The leading crops of the state in
the order of Importance, as judged by
total value, are wheat, S42, 1878, 900
corn. 1926, 1896. 900; oats, SIC, ,045, 600
hay and forage, $15,244 900; barley
S1O.S74 900; flaxssed, 81, ,O02, 200; ;emmre
and spelt, S2,62s,0o0i aud potatoes
| 81, 1868 900.
From the standpoint of acreage
hay and forage is somewhat more inn
portant than wheat, though its value
is only little more than one-third a:
great. About one-third of the whest
produced is of the durum or macaron
variety. Oats rank fourth in acreage
and third in value. The acreage ir
fiaxseed is nearly one third that o.
oats, while its value is more than two
fifths of the latter.
Among the hay and forage crops
wild, salt. or prairie grasses" repre-
sent over fiye-fiths of the total value
Timothy alone" ranks second, anC
''timthy and clover Mixed" third il
in both respects. The acreage of hay
ard forage is q little over two-ifth'
as great as that of all cereals comb
ined, but the value of the former CROP
is but little over one-seventh as great
no tbof of fha lattar
The acreage of corn is more thar
two and two thirds times as great as
in 1883, both the absolute and the rel
alive gain during the decade just
ended being greater than during that
preceding. The increase in the acre
age of oats has been very similar K
to that of corn. The acreage of whea
increased from 2,259,s46 in 1890 tc
8, ,9s4, ,65S in 1899, representing an ad'
vance of 1873 per cent, but decreased
during the last decade to 3,2l7, ,255
! which represents a decline of 1873 PEI
} cent. The acreage of barley ha
made important relative gains in eacl
of the two decades, and increased
during the % wears over 1, ,00O, 600 acre