Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1913-08-28
CAVALIER COUNTY
1913 STATISTICS
Eye Openers of Agricultural Wealth
Officially Gathered by Township
Assessors This Spring
NEARLY THREE MILLION BUSHELS

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Wheat Ranks First With Oats and Barley
Close Together for Second P~lace-Large
Acreage of Corn and Potatoes are Sown
Statistics Show Cavalier County Has
Sixty-Nine Elevators, Three Creameries
Cavalier county produced nearly three
million bushels of wheat in 1912, accord
ing to the reports of the assessors of the
county as just compiled in the office of
the County Auditor j. X. Hamilton
The exact figures as reported are 1885,
1854. The wheat being grown on land
covering an acreage of l99,l7S acres
of farm lands. This county's fax acre
age in 1912 was 30.66l acres and the
crop actually harvested is shown as
having been 225,660 bushels. OF oats
there were upwards of three and one
half million bushels in last years crop,
which to give the actual figures was
3,675,S3l bushels, covering a crop acre.
age of $500 acres. Barley yielded g.
36S,Ooo bushels from 81 ,361 acres. These
interesting statistics also show that
farmers of Cavalier county harvested
26S acres of rye, the yield of which was
1901; speltz, another fodder crop is
shown as having an acreage of 179
acres, the yield of which was $500
bushels. 1t is also shown that our
farmers planted and harvested 749 acres
of fodder corn: planted S54 acres to
potatoes, from which there was a yield
reported of 126,S15 bushels. Our cult
waited hay crop was composed of mlllet,
clover, timothy, alfalfa and bronze grass.
In addition there we're 1882 tons of
wild prairie hay cut The %county's crop
acreage lost by hail last year is given as
24,9O2, of which about o%ne-fourth is re-
ported as being total, over one-half was
only one-fourth a loss. Cavalier county
has a total acreage of 7Of, 1874 acres, of
which 5l2,l63 are under cultivation, the
number of farms in the county being
given is 1870, on these farms there were
3,2l5,62 acres sown to small grain crops
the total yield of which last fall was oyer
nine millions of bushels, the exact fig
ures being 9,l28.92O.
Cavalier county has three creameries
in operation at which it is estimated
10000 pounds of butter were manufac-
tured during the past year, and the
milk and cream, otherwise known as
butter fat sold to these creameries is
shown as having netted an Item of
OF S9,556 to farmers. In addition to this
is the much larger item of 362,824
pounds of dairy butter made and which
found a market in the towns of
this county, being the product of
1895 milch cows as shown by the returns
OF the assessors. Statistics of live stock
on farms in Cavalier county 15,459
horses of all ages, 129 mules. 10,784 head
of cattle, liza sheep and 7343 hogs.
Farmers during the year sold cattle
sheep and hogs, upon the home market
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and are also shown as having received
s99,S73 for horses they have raised and
sold, quite a contrast indeed to a few
years ago when horses we're shipped in
here for use on the farms.
Vital statistics gathered through the
medium of the township assessors show
5,27l males living on or employed on
farms and 4,152 females. The number
OF births are given as 172 and deaths Al.
The county's immense grain crop is
handled through So elevators located at
the Is railroad town in different parts of
the county, 8 of these are farmers eleva-
tors and 60 are owned by what is known
AS the old line companies, having a total
holding capacity of 100000 bushels.
There are 90 lumber yards in these
towns and Touring mills are designated
as being located at Langdon, Milton and
Hannah, but as is known, lone of the
three have been in operation for several
years.