The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-13


1t $19,236,000. The total production Of
poultry in 1909, including estimates
made on the same basis as for eggs,
was 29,s90,000 fowls. valued at $751;
$4,000.
Animals Sold or Slaughtered.
The total value OF domestic animals
in Iowa sold during the year was
$20S 100000 and that of animals
slaughtered on farms s10,147, 900, NAH
ing an aggregate of s21S,216,OO0. This
total, however. involves considerable
duplication resulting from the resale
or slaughter OF animals which had
been purchased by the farmers during
the same year
The value of the cattle fincluding
calves) sold during 1909 represented
somewhat more than two-fifths Of the
total value Of all animals sold, and the
value OF swine sold represented about
two-f1fths.
The census Of 1900 called for the
receipts from the sale OF all domestic
animals raised on farms reporting and
the total value Of those slaughtered
during 1899, which amounted, respect
lively, to s113,0T9,000 and s8,449,000.
The item of sale is not closely COM
parable with that for 1909, when the
inquiry covered all sale whether OF
animals raised on the farms reporting
or elsewhere It is believed, however,
that in many cases the returns for
1889 also included receipts from sales
of animals not actually raised on the
farms reporting.
Crops.
The total value of crops in Iowa in
| 1909 was s314,666,0O0. OF this amount
| 96.S per cent was contributed by crops
for which the acreage as well as the
value was reported, the remainder con-
sisting of the value of by-products
1 (straw, garden and grass seeds, etc.)
derived from the same land as other
! crops reported, or of orchard fruits
nuts, forest products, and the like
I The combined acreage of crops fol
which acreage was reported was 20,
/ 374,925, representing 69.1 per cent Of
the total improved land in farms (29,
491,1 acres1. Most of the remaining
/ improved land doubtless consisted o!
I improved pasture, land lying fallow
house and farm yarus, and land &C
lcupied by orchards and vineyards. the
acreage for which was not reported.
The general character Of Iowa agri
culture is indicated by the fact tina
about three-fourths (73.2 per cent? o.
| the total value of crops in 1909 was
contributed by the cereals, and about
ione-ffth (1S9 per cen., by hay and
4 forage. The remainder representing
10 per cent of the total, consisted
mostly OF vegetables, fruits and nuts
and forest products.
The total value Of crops in 100!
was 500 per cent greater than In 1899
This increase was clearly due In par
| to higher prices. There was a de
crease OF 7.3 per cent in the tota
& acreage OF crops for which acreag
was reported, the greatest absolute de
crease being that in the acreage 0
cereals, and the only important II
I, crease in that of. hay and forage.
Vegetables.
The total acreage Of potatoes AM
other vegetables was 252,243 and thei
value $12,021 900. Excluding potatoe
and sweet potatoes and yams, tn
. acreage of vegetables was 8o,402 an
their value sb,266,000, the acreag
, showing a decrease and the value
decided increase as compared wit
1899. The report distinguishes BIT
, tween farms which make the raisin
Of vegetables business OF some in
, portance (having produced vegetable
valued at $500 Or more in 1909 an
other farms, on most of which veg,
tables are raised mainly for home COZ
, sumption. There were in 1909, 60
farms in the first class, representa-
: only a very small proportion of a
the farms that reported vegetables
but containing nearly one-fifth of til
!. acreage and producing about on
1 seventh of the total value CT veg
tables, the average acreage Of veg
tables per farm for these farms bein
). 22.s and the average value of produ
) Per acre s53.54.
Small Fruits.
n Strawberries are by far the most, il
portant of the small fruits raised
g Iowa, with blackberrics and dewbe
c ries, and raspberries and loganberri
ranking second and third. RESPECTIVE
i ly The value OF the strawberry CIR
In 1909 was s479, 511. The total acl