Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-01-09
AGRICuLTURE IN THE STATE.
Also Stock Raising, Dairying and
Fruit Culture. Statistics That Re
veal Interesting Information.

Washington, Especial Statistics
for live stock products for North Car
DINA are presented in bulletin soon
to be issued by Director Durand, of the
bureau of the census department of
commerce and labor. 1t was prepared
under the supervision of John Lee
Coulter, expert special agent for agri-
culture.
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. 1t is
impossible to give a total representing
the annual production of live stock
products from the business of rails
ing domestic animals for use, or
slaughter can not be calculated from
the census returns.
Dairy Products.
The number of farms in North Car
DINA reporting dairy COWS on April
18th, 1910, was 1885 reported dairy
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
other farmers neglected to give infor-
nation for he preceding year, or were
unable to do so perhaps because the
farm was then in other hands. Dairy
products in general are somewhat less
accurately reported than the principal
crops. This is particularly the case
as regards the quantity of milk pro-
duced. The number of farms which
made any report of milk produced dur
ing 1909 was 1917 somewhat less
than the total mountaineering dairy
COWS on such farms on April 10Th,
1910, was 263, 00O The amount of milk
reported. was 82,602,000 gallons; asum-
ing that there were the same number
of COWS in 1909 as in 1910, this would
represent an average of 314 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 of milk produced, the CEN
sus bureau has made no attempt to
determine the total value of dairy
DTOQuCIS
partial total has been presented COM
prising the reported value of milk and
cream sold as such, and sold on the
mutter fat basis, and the reported
value of butter and cheese made, whe-
Their for home consumption or for sale.
The total thus obtained for 1909 is
S.. 100 900, which may be defined as
the total value of dairy products ex-
elusive of milk and cream used on
the farm producing.
IL Only a small proportion OF milk
reported as produced by North Caro-
lima farmers in 1909, was sold as such.
The butter made on farms in 1909 was
valued at $5,214,000.
Wool
The toll number of sheep of sher-
ing age in North Carolina on April 10,
1910, was 100000, representing de-
crease of 1873 per cent as compared
with the number on June 1, 1900 (2OS,-
OOO9. The approximate production of
wool during 1909 was $4,000 feeces,
494, 900 pounds, and valued at
$131, 900. OF these total about one
fifth represent estimates. The num-
Der of fieeces produced in 1909 was
34.3 per cent less than in 1899. The av-
erage weight per fleece in 1909 was 81
pounds, as compared with 3.S pounds
in 1899, and the average value per
pound was 26 cents, as compared with
10 cents in 1899.
Poultry Products.
The total number Of fowls on North
Carolina farmse on April 10, 1910, was
5 1854, 900. Of the 223,S08 farms re-
porting fowls, 25,99O did not report
any eggs produced in 1909, and 25,-
SOL did not report any poultry raised
in 1909. The production of eggs &C
tualIy reported for the year 1909 was
81 ,839 900 dozens, valued at $3,946, 900.
to the tweifth census re-
ports, the production Of eggs in 1899
was 7,7O4, 900 dozens, the value being
81 $40, 900. The latter figures, how
ever, are somewhat in excess of the
actual returns at that census, because
they include estimates made to cover
they include estimates made to cover
those cases where the schedules re-
ported fowls on hand without report
Jig the production of eggs. In order
der to make the returns for 1903 COM
parable with those published for 1899,
similar estimates have been made, the
method of estimate and the justifi-
ction therefor being substantially the
same as in the case of wool. The total
production of eggs in 1909, including
these estimates, was %, $50, 900 dozens,
valued at $4,257 ,O0O The total pro-
duction of poultry in 1909, including
estimates made on the same basis as
for eggs, was 1928. 900 fowls, valued
at "a ,497 900.
Animals Sold or Slaughtered.
The total value of domestic animals
sold during 1909 was $7,209,0O0 and
that of animals slaughtered on farms
$11, 318, 900, making an aggregate of
$18,537, 900. This total, however, in
wolves considerable duplication re-
sulting from the resale or slaughter
OF animals which had been purchased
by the farmers during the same year.
The value of all the cattle Gncluding
calves) sold during 1909 represented
about one-half of the total value of.
soninoo1c sold and fbo value of mules