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Mr. J. H. Parks, of Pocahontas, has manifested a similar devotion and in- terest in the Sunday school work. Though occasionally changing his residence he has been a Sunday school superintendent almost continuously since the Civil war and in 1903, was made a member of the executive com- mittee of the Iowa State Sunday School Association.
two cents a member to the county
Every Sunday school in the county in the Pilot Creek district in Clinton is expected to contribute annually township.
The second county convention was association, and the latter is now con- held in the court house at Pocahontas tributing twenty-five dollars annually June 10, 1882, by the same officers.
to the State Association. In 1903,
The third county convention, the there were reported in this county 40 first one held in the new town of Sunday schools having an enrollment Rolfe, met in Bruce's hall Saturday of 2,300 members. The county associ- and Sunday, May 26-27th, 1883. John ation is now organizing for another
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COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.
house to house visitation throughout ganization of counties and townships the county during September, 1904 .*
for the purpose of holding an annual The object of this association is to convention, to promote house to house disseminate and promote religious in- visitation, the establishment of home formation among Sabbath school and normal departments in each Sun- workers.
Its membership consists of day school, primary unions in cities the officers, delegates from township and the publication of a state paper. organizations and all Sunday school It aims to awaken a deeper interest workers who are present and enrolled. in Bible study and to bring denomi-
The Iowa State Sunday School As- national workers into closer contact sociation, under which this county and harmony, believing that in the has been organized, is an interdenom- interdenominational co-operation of inational organization that endeavors persistent christians lies the salva- to bring every Sunday school in the tion of this country.
state to greater efficiency and into The first Sunday school in the world helpful contact with every person. It was established by Robert Raikes in England, in February,
is one of a series of State, Provincial Gloucester, and Territorial organizations, that 1781. The first one in London was forms™ the International Sunday established Sept. 7, 1785. The first School Association and maintains the one in the United States was started International Series of Sunday School in Virginia in 1786; the first one in Lessons. It was organized in 1864. Philadelphia, by Bishop White, in Its methods of work include the or- 1791; the first one in New York in the
* County Sunday School Conventions.
The date, place of meeting, succession of officers and special lecturers present, appear in the following exhibit:
Date
Place
Church
Pastor
President Rec & Lecturers
Treas
1881 Sept
Pocahontas Court House
John Fraser Mrs. S. Van Alstine
Mrs. C. A. Lorbeer
1882 June 10
Pocahontas
"
18<3 May 26-7 Rolfe
Bruce's Hall A. W. Richards " Rev. C. M. Wood
1884 May 28-9 Fonda
M. E. ch C. B Winter W, C. Kennedy'
Rev. G, Groat
1885 May Pocahontas
Court House H. W. HAY
1886 June 7-8
11
John A. Kees Fred Swingle
1887 May 24-5 Rolfe
M. E. ch Chas. Artman B. M.Fassenden
Mrs Nellie Swingle
1888 June 5-6 Fonda
Pres ch
R. E. Flickinger C.W.Clifton Becca Pfeiffer
Hon. B. F. Wright
1889 May 21-22 Rolfe
Geo. H. Duty Wm. C. Kennedy
R. E. Flickinger
1890 June 7-8 Laurens
M. E. ch
R. Burnip W. H. Flint
Mattie M. Bailey "
1893 Oct. 11-12 Plover
M. E. & Pres ch M. T. Rainier
Mrs. W. C. Ralston
1894 Oct. 24-5
Havelock M. E. ch C M. Phoenix " Mattie M. Bailey
1895 Oct. 22-3 Rolfe M. E. ch T. E. Carter
Sylvester Smith
1896 Oct. 13-14 Laurens
Christ'n ch C. R. Neel
1897 Aug. 24-5 Havelock M. E. ch C. M, Phoenix
O. M. Murphy Rev. R. L. Marsh
1898 Sept. 8-9
Fonda
Pres ch R. E. Flickinger Sylvester Smith Mrs W. C. Ralston
Rev. O. S. Thompson C. C. Wallace
1899 Sept. 25-6 Pocahontas Christ'n ch S. T. Grove O. M. Murphy Effie Mercer
Miss Mary Barnes
1900;Aug 21-2 Plover Pres ch Z. W. Steele Sylvester Smith O. M. Murphy Rev. C. W. Sweet
1901 Aug 25-6 Rolfe M. E. ch
O. S. Bryan W. C. Kennedy Mrs. G. R. Kreul
1902 Aug 19-20 Gilmore Cy Pres ch F. E. Hoyt Mrs. Mary Mitchell
1903 Sept, 1-2
Pocahontas M. E. ch C. E. Van Horn
Miss Inez Byerly
B. F. Mitchell
Rev. C. W. Sweet C. C. Wallace
1891 May 19-20 Fonda M. E. ch
1892 Oct. 11-12 Pocahontas Baptist
John A. Kees
Capt. Brown
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PIONEER HISTORY OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY, IOWA.
autumn of 1803. The first one in the dictionary could not then be found in Mississippi valley was organized by any of the cities of the west, and she .Mrs. Margaretta Brown in 1818, in prepared and published at her own connection with the Presbyterian expense a little concordance for the church in Frankfort, Ky. A Bible use of her school.
County Temperance Alliance.
In accordance with the recommen- ment of all laws, including those pro- dation of the Iowa State Temperance hibiting the liquor trafic. Having tried moral suasion and found it inef- fectual, we believe the duty of the hour is the immediate enforcement of the laws of the state against the lawless liquor power, wherever that power may be entrenched. Convention, held in Des Moines, Feb. 6-7, 1888, that the friends of temper- ance proceed to perfect a more thor- ough organization in all parts of the state, a call was issued by the pastors of the churches and the representa- On July 21, 1888, the Powhatan Township Alliance was organized at a. meeting held in Plover, by the elec- tion of John Fraser, president; James Henderson, vice-president; P. G. Hess, secretary, and Mrs. J. Strouzel, treas- urer: tives of the three temperance organ- izations at Fonda, and a convention was held in the Presbyterian church, Fonda, June 7, 1888, on the day fol- lowing the 8th annual meeting of the county Sunday school convention. J. J. Bruce, vice-president of the State The second annual temperance con- vention was held at Rolfe, May 22, 1889, in connection with the county S. S. convention, and special address- es were delivered by Hon. B. F. Wright of Charles City, Hon. Geo. L. Dobson of Newell, and Rev. John Hamerson of Fonda. Rev. M. W. At- wood of Rolfe was elected president and the secretary was continued. Alliance for this Congressional Dis- trict, acted as chairman and gave a history of the previous temperance work in this county. Reports of tem- perance organizations and their work were made by Mrs. Geo. Sanborn, Mrs. N. M. Perry and Anna Brown. Ad- dresses were delivered by Hon. S. H. Taft, of Humboldt, Revs. G. H. Duty and F. M. Quinn, of Rolfe; Rev. G. H. Hastings, Godfrey Pfeiffer, Geo San- born and others; and a permanent organization was effected by the elec- tion of J. J. Bruce, president; John Fraser, W. C. Kennedy, and A. F. Hubbell, vice-presidents; and Rev. R. E. Flickinger, secretary and treasur- er.
The following resolutions were adopted:
That we demand from our local nominating conventions the placing of sober men in nomination, and that under no circumstances will we vote for an habitual drinker, or one who furnishes intoxicating liquors for- others to drink, or advocates their use.
·At a meeting of the executive com- mittee held at Rolfe, Dec. 9, 1889, $35 were pledged to the state enforce- ment fund. Another meeting of the executive committee was held at Rolfe Feb. 26, 1890. Rev. Charles Art- man was elected president and dele- gates were chosen to attend the state convention. No county convention was held that year owing to the ab- sence of the secretary from the coun- ty at the time for holding it. The same cause prevented the meeting announced to be held in the M. E. church, Fonda, May 20, 1891.
The work of the Alliance, for sever- al years after that date, was carried on by the members of the executive
II. That we demand from our local committee, the secretary of which, at public servants the faithful enforce- the state convention, held in Des
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COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.
Moines, February, 1890, was elected a this second canvass of this county, a director of the Iowa State Temper- union mass meeting was held under ance Alliance and urged to endeavor the auspices of the local Alliance in to close all the saloons in the sixteen the Presbyterian church, Fonda, Sab- counties of this Tenth Congressional bath evening, Oct. 11, 1896, when district. During the next eighteen the principal addresses were delivered months six hundred and seventy-five and special songs were sung by five of dollars were solicited, the evidence the leading business men, of Sac City; was secured, and injunctions, or, fines who among others stated the fact that and penalties for contempt of court, County Auditor Peck had found that were obtained in 59 of 60 cases, insti- the costs of criminal prosecutions in tuted in the courts of Carroll, Greene, Sac county during the last year under Humboldt, Palo Alto, Pocahontas and license, ending. Sept. 30, 1886, were Webster counties. This campaign was begun at Carroll, where fourteen cases were instituted, and it was $3,263.70; and during the next year the first one under prohibition, they were only $1,750.51, or a saving in one rendered useless in that and Webster year in this one item of 81,513.19. counties by the attitude of the Gov- Resolutions setting forth Fonda's ernor of Iowa (Boies), who remitted the fines and penalties as soon as re-
previous unsatisfactory experience with the saloon and asking all voters quested and as fast as they were im- in the county to refrain from signing posed by the courts.
After the enactment of the mulct published in the county papers and law in 1894, two consent petitions circulated in leaflet form by pastors were filed in this county for the es- of the churches. *
tablishment of saloons at Fonda.
the consent petition, were adopted,
The saloon was more persistent in The canvass for the first one was appearing and reappearing at Fonda made in September, 1894, and after than elsewhere in the county,and this this petition was filed, three saloons, fact caused that place to be the storm- two at Fonda and one at Gilmore center of the field-operations of the City, were opened. The law did not County Alliance. Its work was made then specify who should examine and effective in the "early days," before approve the petition. J. J. Bruce, Wm. Hazlett became the county at- chairman of the board of supervisors, torney in 1897, through J. J. Bruce, made an examination, found it lack- Esq., its attorney.
The results ed the required number of signatures, achieved by him were as follows: In and on application to Judge Thomas, 1888, two saloons were searched and injunctions were granted against two the keepers were fined in a justice's of them on July 30, 1896, and on the other one in September following.
court and afterwards enjoined. In 1890, a lot of gamblers were routed The second consent petition, which from the fair ground, two places were was circulated in November following closed and four barrels of beer were (1896), was signed by a sufficient num- destroyed. In April, 1895, indictments ber of voters and received the approv- were found against more than a half al of the supervisors. Two saloons dozen persons in different parts of the were immediately establised at Fonda, county. In July, 1896, the consent and one in Gilmore City; and when in petition in the auditor's office, having been examined was proven insufficient and injunctions were obtained against
1899, the new towns of Palmer and Varina were located, a saloon was opened in each of them.
To prevent the successful issue of
* Page 329.
860 PIONEER HISTORY OF POCAHONTAS COUNTY, IOWA.
three saloons, all that were then in the county.
The fact was noted in The Fonda Times of Nov. 12, 1903, that the vote
During the years the consent peti- of 1901, which was only 2,212, had in- tion of 1896, was in force, the friends creased to 3,092 in 1903, which indi- of temperance, though constituting a cated an increase of 760 citizens in the majority of the people of the county, county in two years, a remarkable were powerless to overthrow it, and growth, and an increase in the popu- the citizens in the townships, where lation during the same time of 3,950 the new towns were established, were persons. It would be difficult to find powerless, either to prevent saloons a better reason for letting "well
from operating, or to close them. enough alone," and for keeping Poca- Fortunately the supreme court of hontas county on the high road to lowa, on Jan. 29, 1900, in the case of future and long-continued prosperity. Lorenz Ill, Polk county, decided that It is also worthy of note, that they when the new code went into effect, were the facts above stated in regard Oct. 1, 1897, it rendered insufficient to the experience of the friends of all consent petitions filed previous
to temperance in Pocahontas county, that date. This included the one in before and after their deliverance Pocahontas county and the county from the galling and unbreakable attorney, a few days later, notified yoke of a consent petition, by the su- all the saloons of the county of that preme court decision in 1900, that fact. On March 28th, following, suggested the propriety and reasona- permanent injunctions were issued bleness of the Time Limit Movement, by Judge Helsell against all of the which has for its object the enact- five saloons, that had been operating ment of an amendment to the Mulct under the petition of 1896. Temper- law, so that all consent petitions ance saloons were subsequently start- shall expire at the end of a reasonable ed in most of the places that had been time, three or five years; and thus af- enjoined; but where evidence of the ford the citizens in all the Mulct fact that the old keepers were at the counties an option, or opportunity, to "old business," was placed in the dispense with the saloons, whenever hands of the county attorney, they a majority of them desire to do so. In other words, it is merely a request were easily and speedily closed.
The local temperance Alliance at that the legislature, as a matter of Fonda, in February, 1900, or as soon justice to the good people in the as the consent petition in this county Mulct counties, repeat in 1904, what was declared insufficient by the su- it did with such good results, by a preme court, was reorganized as an Anti-saloon League, and began its campaign throughout the county to * The union meetings included those addressed by Mr. Flickinger in Fonda, Varina, Laurens and Plover; those addressed by the local pastors at Havelock, the Rolfe opera house and the Swede churches in Colfax township; and those addressed by Rev. H. H. Abrams at Gilmore City, Pocahontas and Fonda. Other meet- ings arranged and hand-billed by the secretary for Mr. Abrams in this vicinity at that time were those at Pomeroy, where he addressed the Presbytery of Fort Dodge, at Manson, Jolley and Rockwell City. prevent the re-establishment of the saloon in it. Anti-salcon meetings* were held in all the towns of the county, and a five year anti-saloon pledge was circulated and signed by voters in nearly every township. Pastors of churches and the public press of the county co-operated with the League, and as a result the effort to secure a consent petition in Novem- ber, 1900, was a dismal failure.
·
861
COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.
slight amendment of the Mulct law saloon is the sum of all villainies, in 1897.
the father of all crime, the mother of
The question of prohibiting the all abominations, the devil's best sale of intoxicating liquors as a bever- friend and God's worst enemy."
age has been twice submitted to the people of this county-Oct. 11, 1870, (P. 302), and June 27, 1882-and on both occasions a large majority of
"He that any good would win, At his mouth must first begin."
The benefits attending the practice the voters were in favor of prohibit. of total abstinence and of practical ing their sale. In 1870, prohibition prohibition have raised the general was adopted as the policy of this standard of public opinion regarding county by a vote of 123 to 25, and in the liquor traffic; so that in those 1882, the prohibitory amendment was states where the saloon does exist, pub- carried by a vote of 407 to 246.
lic sentiment is demanding a higher Josh Billings never uttered a truer sentiment than when he said license and more stringent regula- tions, while the rising spirit of com- "Whiskey is a good thing in its place, mercialism now demands that only but hell is the place for it " Robert total abstainers be employed in all G. Ingersoll, just as truly said, "The the important industries of the land.
& CoCali.
PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDING, FONDA.
APPENDIX.
Public Officers,-Supplemental List.
SUCCESSION OF SUPERVISORS. (SEE PAGE 202)
1900. Terrence Doyle, Lincoln, chairman; Claus Johnson, Des Moines; A. H. Richey, Marshall; M. A. Hogan; Dover; C. B. Elsen, Lake
1901. Terrence Doyle, Lincoln, chairman; Robert Hunter. Clinton; A. H. Richey, Marshall; S. W. Mc- Kinney, Colfax; C. B Elsen. Lake.
1902 C B. Elsen, Lake, chairman; Robert Hunter, Clinton; A. H. Richey, hontas, Frank M. Starr
Marshall; S W. Mckinney, Colfax; Josenh Mikesh. Center.
1903. A. H Richev, Marshall, chair - man: Robert Hunter. Clinton; S. W. Mckinney, Colfax; Henry Weber, Worley Lake; Joseph Mikesh, Center. 1904 A. H Richey, Marshall, chair- Gilmore City, John E. McBride. man; Joseph Mikesh, Center; Henry Weber, Lake, Frank White, Colfax; ing Plover, Alex. McEwen.
B C. Budolfson, Clinton.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Jonathan P. Dolliver, since 1900; William B. Allison.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
J. P. Dolliver, Fort Dodge. 1889- 1900; J. P. Conner; Denison, 1900-1904.
CENSUS ENUMERATORS IN 1900.
The census of 1900 was taken by tlie following enumerators:
Bellville township, Anthony Larson. Cedar, including Fonda, Geo. B. Sanborn.,
Lincoln and Center, including Poca-
Clinton, (92-31) including Rolfe and part of Gilmore City. Fred A Malcolm. Colfax and Grant, John A. Crummer. Dover and Marshall, Benjamin
Lizard and Lake, including part of
Des Moines and Powhatan, includ-
Swan Lake, including Laurens, Roderick McCombs.
Sherman and Washington, includ- ing Havelock, Horace E. Buck.
Representatives in the General Assembly of lowa.
G. A.
Dist ..
1900 28th
50th
1902 29th
50th
1904 30th
50th
SENATORS Name Parley Finch EK Winnie EK Winn'e
County Humboldt
Dist. 76th
John B Kent Fred ( Gilchrist Montague Hakes
County Pocahontas 66
County Officers.
SEE PAGE 212.
1900
Auditor I C Thatcher 1 C Thatcher
Clerk of Court FH Plumb F H Plumb 64
G S Robinson
Recorder LE Hanson L E Hanson
1902
G S Robinson
1903
Geo W Day
Percy M Beers
G S Robinson
County Officers Continued.
1900
W L Mitchell
Superintendent U S Vance 6.
Surveyor H W Bissell
Coroner
Attorney Wm Hazlett Wm Hazlett
1902
W L Mitchell
U S Vance
H W Bissell
A H Thornton
1903
Geo A Heald
1901
J J Kelleher
US Vance
H W Bissell (862)
A H Thornton
O E Christeson
1904
REPRESENTATIVES Name
Treasurer
1901
Sheriff
1901
863
APPENDIX.
Spanish War Volunteers.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIST ON PAGE 508.
LAURENS.
Joseph H. Allen, Esq, Co. F. 49th Iowa.
Victor A. Sniggs, U. S. Navy.
Fritz Lindeman, Co. F.
Charles A. Homer, Co. F. 66
S. A. Carlson. Co. F.
Herman Waddell, Co F. 66
Peter Winter, Co. F.
C. H. Dennis, Co. F. 66
POCAHONTAS.
Wm. D. Wallace,
Co. F.
Fred Bollard, ( o. F.
Charles Montgomery, Co. F. "
Ten of the above named left for Cedar Rapids June 19, 1898, where they were mustered in. They then PLOVER. passed to Camp Cuba Libre at Jack- John M Barnes. sonville, Florida, where they joined William Henderson. Co. F. (Tipton) of the 49th Iowa. This The latter entered the U. S. navy regiment was mustered June 2, 1898, and served under Admiral Dewey at at camp Mckinley, Des Moines, went Manilla. to Jacksonville, June 11th, and to FONDA. Cuba, Dec 19, 1898 It participated in the scenes attending the evacuation Patrick H. Carroll, Co. K. Ist S. D. Michael J. Mullen, who became one of Col. Roosevelt's Rough Riders at Fort Meade, Texas, May 10, 1898. of Havana and was mustered out at Savannah, Georgia, April 9, 1899. It was under the command of Col. Wm. G. Dows, and Co. F. was commanded by Capt. Louis J. Powell.
Victor A. Sniggs entered the navy as an assistant engineer; Charles Montgomery re-enlisted in the regular
army June 29, 1899; and Oscar Dilocker of Laurens, who went with them, did not pass the examination on account of being too light in weight.
Dr. A. E. Carney of Pocahontas, served two years, 1898-1900, as a sur- geon in the U. S. army in the Philip- pines,
HAVELOCK.
James P. Winne, Co. F. 49th Iowa. Roy C. Converse, Co. M, 52d Iowa, who died of typhoid fever at Chick- amauga Aug. 8, 1898; and his twin brother, who was also a member of Co. F. 49th Iowa.
Edward Taylor and Peter Murphy served three years, 1894 97, in the Ist U. S. Cavalry, stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
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864
Church Growth, -- An Exhibit.
Showing the religious development of Pocahontas county and the comparative strength of the various denominations represented in it during the period 1865 to 1903.
Baptist
Catholic
Christian Ev'ng']}
Lutheran
Methodist
Presbyterian
U. B. *
Summaries, 1865-1903
1895
1903 1885 1895 1903 1895
19')3 1890
1903 1885 1895 1903 1885
1895
1903 1885 1895 1903 1895 1903 1865 1870 1 75
1885
1895
1903
Organizations
2
3
3
5
+7
3
4
1
1
2
4
29
5
5
1
4 . 6
1
1
3
7
11
24
42
Members
15
150
400
1300 1500 370
400
50
75
100
200
642| 150
670 1125
25
340
75
20 100
300
675
3335
4715
Churches
1
2
3
5
7
2
2
2500
600
800
200
200
400
800 1500 200
1350
28 0
800 14001 200
200
1800
5485
9700
Value of
1200
2750,5000
9100 23500 4300
6500 1800
2000 3000
4 6000 10 00 3
2
4
3
1
I
1
1
2
15
23
Value of
$1500,1500
5200
8500
3500
4000 5000
600
3200
6500
7000 1000 1500
$500
$2300 $15200 $33500
Salary of clergy
$500
$1000.1500
3690
5850 2200
200 )
200
300 1000
2000 3000
· 800
5500
500
4250 500 800 $250
800 200
4300
13420 2310
Contingent funds
$20
$150,500 1028
2500
795
560
50
75
200
50€
250
950
1900
1720
1800 100 150 30
50
100
950
4686
7575
S. S .. members
100
60
150
260
300
50
75
100
200
450
200
555
1150
455
800| 100
150
50
100
300
1470
3175
" funds
20
$75
75
125 125
150|
30
501
75
150
4001
200
235
7001
145
450
50
751
40
75
275
551
2125
+Bohemian, -- 1: Irish, -- 6; Membership includes baptized children. The Lizard church being across the line in Webster county, is not included,
įGerman, --- Bellville.
¿Danish,-1; German -4; Norwegian,-2; Swedish, -2.
[Episcopal, -- 10 ; Protestant, or Free, --- 1.
*Swedish Mission, Colfax.
.
1
1
6
22
37
Seating capacity
150
300| 700
1200
10300 13000 2000 2500
$10200 $44600 $91350
Parsonages
1 1
5
6
2
1
1
'2
4
8
1
5
11
4
670
150
5
500 11000 30600
4500 2550
3275
300
APPENDIX ..
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Material Growth, -- A Bird's Eye View,
Of the material development of Pocahontas county, as far as the facts could be obtained from the various census reports, from the period of its early settlement ;- 1860 to 1900.
Population
103
215
1446
1875 2249
3713
6152
9553
12442
15339
Native born
2698
4587
7392
9954
12716
Persons to sq mile
.2
.4
2.5
3.9
6.4
70.7
16.6
21.6
26.6
Families
30
32
137
485
682
1109
1850
2508
2983
Dwellings
30
32
126
485
649
1186
1816
2456
2946
..
average size
..
Occupied by owner
cash tenant
36
46
830
52L
66
acres improved
139
7078
21928
40592 39688
71561
149822
215550 93606
21212
Value of farms
$2700
330930
828725
3366532
2711867
8404334
11338 . 10
" implements
170
29 15
29405
87117
58988 0
Horses
4
73
374
1120
2284
3658
7835
10416
13012
Mules
116
169
347
282
457
Oxen
60
100
25
8
33
Cows
28
152
596
1483
4707
6278
12688
9154
193 8
Other cattle
270
358
1280
3445
10466
11717
29199
18762
24305
Pure bred
120
· 223
444
923
Hogs
38
200
292
2608
16739
17984
53354
45328
78705
Sheep
2
7
30
629
842
1556
1806
4315
Wool, lbs of
8
30
125
3840
4793
9066
10448
38720
Chickens
38899 1895
101796
143757
190238
Turkeys
6418
12149
9705
Other fowls
3945
5880
3617
9578
Eggs, dozens
103281
443580
424174
892330
Poultry and eggs sold
$ 11767
44761
56833
Bees, stands of
20
670
584
Honey, 1bs
470
3702
3400
11050
Butter, 1bs
1350
9672
39265
86172
305051
381444
847996
717984
1103637
Cheese "
1000
929
1750
7872
3329
1906
3360
460
5709
Butter
1000
249932
810904
526075
Cheese factory
Cheese made, lbs
3000
Dairy products
Farm "
4993
112666
259573
$74503 421353
1177534
2376889
Wheat, acres
80
1600
7434
3913
4613
1737
2718
14919
" bushels
50
1000
18413
30774
40383
58769
30556
37652
175070
Corn, acres
266
483
8981
20390
30300
57529
93401
102979
" bushels
1280
7740
32860
229263
686602
889176
131955
1630116
3637130
Oats, acres
37
500
2541
4765
14898
29646
44614
67094
" bushels
602
11015
40194
154023
182122 1198723
1061933
2539810
Rye, acres
58
325
951
287
413
480
bushels
647
5185
9750
5752
4812
5908
Buck wheat, acres
53
13
315
464
130
220
bushels
842
123
3516
5147
521
2150
Flax, acres
I
2
17
1129
3767
9779
8716
3683
bushels
12
5
12
9906
29197
102292
58731
34350
Peas and beans, bushels
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