Milford chronicle., 1956-10-05
State Farm Picture
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partment of Agriculture. AS O.
June /, 1856, farmers had received
cash receipts of S37,133,00O from
marketing livestock, livestock pro
ducts and crops compared to a to-
tai of $34,5SS,000 received during
the same 1855 period.
The greatest increase was in the
sale of crops which crossed S..
$4,000 during the first five months
of 1856 as compared with only $4,.
264,000 during the same period in
1855.
Cash receipts for marketing OF
livestock and their products in
creased slightly from $30,324,0OO
in 1855 to $SO,SS4, 900 in 1856 up to
June 1st.
The states farmers were also
setting a new record for the pro-
duction of soybeans this year. Pro-
duction is estimated at 3,105,00
bushels compared with 100000
bushels last year and an average
harvest the last ten years of 914,-
600 bushels. Thus, soybean produc-
tion has more than tripled in the
last decade. This years yield is es-
timated at more than 23 bushels d.
acre as compared to 20 bushels a
year ago and ten-year average of
10 bushels. Thus soybean yields
have been improved, so per cent in
the state in a 10-year period.
There are also indications of a
tremendous record-breaking corn
crop in 1856. Delaware farmers are
obtaining a record yield of Sc bush
els per acre compared with only 36
bushels last year and an average
of 40.2 bushels over a ten-year pc
riod. The Delaware yield is ex-
ceeded in only two state: Illinois
and New Jersey. The crop this year
is estimated at S,56S,000 bushels
compared to 6,120,000 bushels in
1855.
Sussex County continues as one
of the nations outstanding agri-
cultural counties-and one of the
richest in the United States, ac-
cording to u. S. Census Bureau fig
ures. This is based on figures COM
piled for 1854. Sussex County pro-
duced $57,S9S,391 worth of agricul-
tural produce (including it's fam
GUS broilers) in 1854 to take 22nd
place in the nation among 5000
counties.
The county was second in the
eastern half Of the United States
only to fabulous Lancaster Coun-
ty, Pa, which produced $50, 1000
worth of agricultural produce. Sus-
sex topped all of the cornbelt coun-
ties of the midwest. MCLEAN Coun-
ty, ILL.,, richest in the cornbelt, pro-
duced $46,000,000 worth of pro-
ducts in 1854. Sussex County edged
out huge Aroostook County, Maine,
for second place in the eastern
half of the United States.
This same Delaware County also
raises more chickens than any
other area in the world, the report
continues. Data collected in 1854
shows that Sussex raised 5S,13',-
912 chickens during that year, COM
pared with 17,327,000 raised in the
second-best county Rockinham
County. Virginia. Third place went
TO Benton County, Arkansas, with
II 900, 900 birds and fourth to WI
comico County, Maryland, with
$4,000, 900.
Kent County, Delaware, also
made the first 100 counties among
the 5000 in the u. S. A. in the
chicken business, raising 3,553,OOO
birds i'm 1854. The value of Sussex
County birds was $3S,S27.00 COM
pared to S10,539, 900 for Benton
County, Arkansas, which stood
second in terms of market value
of chickens.
While broiler prices are low at
the present time, the optimism OF
Delaware producers is shown Ill
the figures of current hatchings
which far exceed those of last year.
From JanueTy through August of
this year there have been 49,352,-
600 hatchings as compared to 4O,-
900 900 during the same period In
1855, indicating that the chicken
grower is not slackening his pace
in this industry.
In 1856 Delaware's gross farm
income brought in $101, ,176,OOO as
compared to 500, 100000 in 1854.
The low annual gross receipts OF
recent years was 500 100000 in 1949
and the peak year was 1851 with
gross receipts reaching S115,4OO,-
600. However, it is pointed out that
this was the period when the Ko-
rean conflict was at its height, and
higher prices were the order of