The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-09-23
SOME INTERESTING FIGURES

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES
The state census bureau is now Civ.
ing out some information about the
resources of South Dakota and they
are interesting to every citizen. They
show that Brookings county has 300.
8O5 acres plowed, 57,497 acres in hay
Sage acres in pasture, and 157 acres
irrigated. This county has 494 acres
of alfalfa, A silos, it produced last
year 499,903 bushels of potatoes, it
has 1873 ,965 chickens, and it sold 1856,
716 pounds of ream last year. Beside
this it purchased 462, $50 pounds of but
ter and 2,400 pounds of cheese.
Following are some state figures of
interest:
Total population ..............5S2,76 1865
Area of state ....... ,195 $40 acres
In farms ......... %, 820,436 acres
Number of farms 101 POI
Average size ......,,... ..oZ0 acres
Operated by owner 1888
Operated by manager ..........3,SSS
Operated share renter ........2 5, 851
Comparative figures of the census
tables with the census of 1910 and
1905 show that South Dakota has
changed products in ten years to some
extent, having lost cattle since 1910,
but gained since 1905; the same is
true in case of horses, and there is a
loss in 1915 Of sheep as compared with
1905, and 1910, but swine have gone
steadily upward in the ten year period.
Goats are about half what they were
in 1905.
Corn acreage has increased three
times and wheat acreage twce as
much as in 1905, oats remained about
the same during the ten year periods;
also barley; rye increased about twice;
flaxseed is about one-half as great; po-
tatoes twice as much; apples about
one-third as great as ten years ago;
plums one-half as much; total hay is
about the same; milk protection in
creased almost three times as much in
the five year period since 1910; figures
for 1905 of milk are not given; butter
is about equal to ten years ago; but
cream sold has increased to forty-six
times it's amount ten years ago, which
Is the largest increase of any one pro-
duct.
Since the census tables are all total
led it develops that the western part
of the state shows more owners Of
farms operating them than in the east.
ern sections. There the tenants oper-
ate them most largely. Such figures
are due to the older half of the state
being settled more years; owners have
retired and rented their farms. In the
western section where everything is
new the wner is yet upon his own
land, homesteads most frequently. Di-
yiding the state down through the cen
ter all the way, Perkins county in the
western half shows the largest number
Of n operating farms, and Rob-
erts county in the eastern half.
Minnehaha county leads in the east
ern half in having farm managers; but
Meade in the western half has the
largest number there; Minnehaha for
eastern and Lyman for western half
lead for number of cash renters.
Brown county east and Trip county
west lead for number of share renters.
Brown county and Meade county, for
east and west lead for number of plow-
ed acres. Meade county has the larg-
est acreage of wild timber in the state.
Yankton county leads in wild timber
for the eastern section. All the forest
reserves are in the western sections.
Corn yield is highest in eastern coun-
ties. Lincoln was first, Minnehaha Sec
ond, and Turner third for the 1914 sea-
son as reported in the 1915 census.
Clay, McCook. and Union are about
even and are next in line for corn.
Sphinx Is first and Brown second for
wheat. Lincoln. Minnehaha and Turn.
Or In order named for oats. K~ingsbury.
B~rookings. Brown in order named for
barley: Sp'nk first and Meade second
for alfalfa. This IL a crop with much
the largest totals in the western half