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COUNTY EXPENSES.
The first few years no detailed annual report of the county expenses was made ; there are one or two reports prior to 1871, but it seems evident that the figures there given are incorrect. Reports exist subsequent to 1870, but as to some of them it is probable they do not cover exactly a year, and it is also quite evident that some mistakes have been made by
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the party who copied them or by the printer; but it is believed the fol- lowing table shows substantially the amount expended by the county each fiscal year. For a number of years the fiscal year ended with July, but more recently it has closed with October :
1871
$21,125 74
| 1879
$29,713 62
1887
$36,261 62
1872
23,621 81
1880
32,797 62
1888
44,897 14
1873
36,380 92
1881
27,224 96
1889
41,019 93
1874
31,459 45
1882
38,589 13
1890
34,150 48
1875
27.439 71
1883.
40,958 43
1891
31,244 44
1876.
23,814 89
1884
47,760 60
1892
34,834 10
1877
23.895 28
1885
40,657 53
1878
31,789 84
1886
48,296 44
COLORED PEOPLE.
From almost the first settlement of the county there have been a few colored people living in it, a number of whom have been successful and made good homes. Dairy Nero settled upon the S.E. 14 of section 15, adjoining Oswego, in 1866, and entered it at the Government land office, and has ever since made it his home.
On April 4, 1870, the noon stage brought the news of the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, whereupon the colored men then in Oswego were informed of their rights, marched to the polls, the election being then in progress, where they deposited their ballots. Spencer Jones, who was the porter at the Oswego House, was the first colored man in the county, and of course one of the first in the State, to exercise the right of suffrage.
In the fall of 1879 the "exodus" began, and hundreds of colored peo- . ple, principally from Texas and Tennessee, and also many from other parts of the South, arrived in the county. Chetopa, Oswego and Parsons were almost overrun by them. Their coming was unexpected, and no provision for their care and comfort had been made. Buildings for shel- ter could not be procured. They were mostly without means, destitute of everything like comfortable clothing, and in a condition to appeal strongly to the sympathies of charitable people. Rough board sheds were erected and made as comfortable as could be, in which large num- bers were housed for that winter. During the next year or two others came in, until the number of colored people formed quite a large percent- age of the population of the cities named. Quite a number also were scattered over the county, more especially in the river bottom.
A very great improvement has been made in their condition both intel- lectually and financially, and there are now among the colored people many well-to-do families, who are intelligent, industrious, and moral.
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Some of course have remained shiftless, trifling, and worthless. From all appearances they are a permanent part of the population.
ATHLETICS.
Almost from the first settlement of the county the lovers of base ball have been organized, and have done what they could toward making the game popular and successful. As early as 1871 clubs were organized at Oswego and Chetopa, and within the next two or three years organiz- ations were had at several other places in the county, and frequent local contests took place. The craze seems to have reached its highest point in 1885, when there was a great strife by the Oswego club to be the champions not only of the county but of southeastern Kansas, and under the leadership of F. C. Wheeler great proficiency was attained. The in- terest in the game has been kept up to a considerable extent, but since the departure of Mr. Wheeler it has never created the excitement it reached at that time.
In the fall of 1885 a ladies' broom brigade was formed, and attained a considerable degree of skill at drilling under the command of Col. True.
The roller-skating craze had perhaps for a season the greatest run of anything in the line of athletics that has been witnessed in the county. The height of its prosperity was witnessed about 1884. Commodious and well-furnished rinks were erected at Parsons and Oswego, and per- haps at other places in the county, and their owners supposed that they had a permanent and well-paying business established ; but the interest died out as suddenly as it arose, and nothing farther was heard of it.
OFFICIAL DELINQUENCIES.
The county has been extremely fortunate since since its organization in having officers who performed their duties satisfactorily and who were true to the trust reposed in them. There have been three or four in- stances in which the county has been required to commence legal pro- ceedings in order to collect from its officers money which they held in their official capacity. When H. C. Bridgman went out of office as treas- urer his accounts were found to be short. A suit against him and his bondsmen was instituted, pending which a settlement was had, in which it was agreed that he was indebted to the county in the sum of $8,750. This was settled by him and his bondsmen as follows: The County Com- missioners took from them the quarter-section of land on which they located the poor-farm, at the agreed price of $4,000. They gave their note for $3,000 and paid $1,750 in cash. By this means the county was saved from any financial loss.
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RECEPTION TO PRESIDENT HAYES.
When S. B. Abbott, the sheriff, completed the tax sale under the pro- ceedings of 1877, he reported that he had received $1,698.02, and that his charges for fees and services were $2,008.48. These charges were largely in excess of what the law authorized. Suit was brought by the Commissioners to recover from him fees which he illegally held. The matter was finally settled by his paying $302.62.
Under a change of law regulating the fees of county officers, a question arose between the county and one or two of its officers as to what fees they were entitled to, and not agreeing on the construction of the law, the matter was settled in court.
RECEPTION TO PRESIDENT HAYES.
In the evening of September 24, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes and wife, General W. T. Sherman, George St. John and wife, and other dignitaries arrived at Parsons on their way to Neosho Falls, where they were to attend the district fair. People from all parts of Labette county went to Parsons, where a reception was tendered the Presidential party. An address of welcome was made by T. C. Cory, which was responded to by President Hayes and General Sherman. In the evening the whole assemblage was presented to the party.
INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS .- COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS.
FIRST WHEAT CROPS .- THRESHING-MACHINES AND GRIST- MILLS.
In the fall of 1866 Charles Wadsack sowed a few acres of wheat, which he harvested the following summer; this was probably the first wheat crop raised in the county. There was no threshing-machine here at the time, and he was compelled to thresh it by a more primitive method, which was by having his horses tread upon it. When he got it to the mill it was so dirty that it would not make flour very palatable ; however, it was the best that could be done, and it furnished him with something in the line of breadstuffs during that year.
Quite a number of farmers had enough ground in cultivation by the fall of 1867 to enable them to put out fairly good crops of wheat, and in 1868 the first machinery for harvesting and threshing was brought to the county. The first threshing-machine was brought into the county by Ed. and George Cubbison. There were so many parties having wheat threshed who were all anxious to get it done early, that some of them had to be disappointed, and occasionally when the machine was through with a job the neighbors would take possession of it and put it at work at the next nearest place instead of allowing it to go out of the neighborhood.
In 1870 Martin Jackson brought on a new reaper and Thomas Phillips a threshing-machine; these were probably the first machines of this kind south of the Hackberry.
The first mill in the county, so far as I have learned, that was prepared to do anything at grinding wheat, was John Hart's mill, on the Labette. In addition to the corn buhrs which he had been using, he put in wheat buhrs in the fall of 1868, and was able to grind wheat for the farmers in that community. It was not until about 1873 that self-binders and steam threshers appeared.
CASTOR BEANS.
It is said that W. W. Robbins, in Pleasant Valley, was the first person in the county to raise a crop of castor beans. This was in 1873. The
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yield was so good that the following season many others planted, and since then this has been one of the largest crops raised.
TAME GRASS.
On July 8, 1873, Col. F. Swantick brought a load of timothy to Oswego. which he sold to B. F. Hobart, at $8 per ton. The next day he sold a load of clover to H. C. Draper, at the same price. This was the first tame hay marketed in the county. At that time very few farmers had com- menced to raise tame grass. Since then its production has generally in- creased, until now the crop of tame grass is quite an item in the annual production of the county.
THE COTTON INDUSTRY.
In the spring of 1873 G. W. Everhart procured the seed and distrib- uted it among the farmers along Labette creek, and secured the planting of quite a large acreage of cotton in the vicinity of Parsons. Mr. Ever- hart put in a small cotton-gin that fall, which he continued to operate some two or three years, when it was removed to the Indian Territory. On February 5, 1874, a cotton convention was held at Parsons which resulted in awakening quite an interest in connection with the raising of this product. After 1876 there was nothing done in the way of raising cotton until 1879, when an enterprising colored man from Texas who was living on David Romine's place, a few miles southwest of Oswego, planted several acres of cotton and induced several other colored men living along the Neosho river to also put out a few acres. Mr. Romine assisted in the erection of a cotton-gin at Oswego that fall, and it was found that the crop was large and profitable, considering the small num- ber of acres that had been planted. In 1880, 98 bales were ginned and shipped ; in 1881, 145 bales : in 1882 a very much larger acreage was planted, but the fall was so wet that it cut the crop short, and but 70 bales were ginned. The prospect was good again in 1883 for a large crop, but this year, as the year previous, it was cut short by the wet fall, and but 45 bales were ginned. Two years of partial failure rather dis- couraged those who had been engaged in the business, and very little if any was planted thereafter in this vicinity. In 1889 the Oswego gin was taken to Chetopa, in the vicinity of which a few colored men had raised small crops, but the amount that has been raised the last few years has been inconsiderable.
GRASSHOPPERS.
In the fall of 1866 grasshoppers came in great quantities. Of the little crop that was raised that year most of it was matured so that they did
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not damage it, but everything that was green was devoured by them. They stayed until cold weather came. A rain in the fall filled the little brooks, and so washed them down stream that in places wagon-loads of them could be gathered up. The following February was so warm that the eggs hatched, and a hard freeze coming on in March killed the young hoppers ; so they bothered no more at that time. The next visit they made this county was in September, 1874. They came in one day in such myriads that what was green in whole fields of corn was devoured by them in a single day. All the trees were stripped of their leaves, and fruit trees were left bare of all foliage, hanging full of ripe apples. They laid their eggs and disappeared in the fall, so that the wheat crop then sowed was not all destroyed. About the last of March in the fol- lowing spring they commenced hatching, and during April and May ate the young crop about as fast as it came on. Corn had to be planted two or three times; the last planting extending into July. About the last of May they commenced moving, and during the fore part of June they were nearly all gone. In September, 1876, there was another visitation of them, but not to as great an extent as there had been the two years preceding.
In 1875 farmers learned that very much could be done towards destroy- ing the hoppers and saving the crops. Several methods of destruction were used, among others plowing a deep furrow into which the hoppers were driven and then covered, either by refilling it with dirt or by put- ting straw over them and burning them up.
FISH AND GAME.
All of the streams of the county are well supplied with fish. They are more numerous, of course, in the Neosho than in the smaller streams. Many have been taken from the Neosho measuring from four to six feet in length and two and one-half feet in circumference, weighing from 60 to 100 pounds.
On July 5, 1875, a large catfish of about the size just described got into a basin on the riffle at Motter's ford, east of Oswego, and could not get away. Two men who were crossing caught it, and brought it to town.
In the early settlement of the county large numbers of wild animals of various kinds were caught, and added very much to the stock of provi- sions of the early settlers. Deer, antelope, wild geese and turkeys, and prairie chickens, as well as other birds and animals, were found in abun- dance. Coyotes, badgers and other carnivorous animals were here in larger numbers than was desirable to the settlers. As the county became settled they became less numerous.
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BOUNTY.
On July 11, 1877, the County Commissioners passed an order putting into operation chapter 76 of the Laws of 1877, giving a bounty on scalps of certain wild animals. Under this order, almost an innumerable num- ber of scalps was presented during the years the law was in force, and large sums of money were paid as bounty therefor. The law remained in operation under the above order until January 13, 1885, when the Com- missioners made an order revoking their previous one, since which time no bounty has been paid for scalps of any wild animals.
DEHORNING STOCK.
In January, 1886, G. J. Coleman, of Mound Valley, created something of an excitement in the neighborhood by dehorning his cattle. This was the first instance in which that system of treatment of stock had been practiced in this county. A party who was not friendly with Mr. Cole- man caused his arrest on the charge of cruelty to animals. On the trial he was acquitted, having convinced the jury that his process was one of mercy rather than of cruelty to animals. Ever since that time this sys- tem of treatment has been generally practiced.
TEXAS FEVER.
In 1866, and for several years thereafter, the people frequently became alarmed over the introduction of Texas cattle and the spread of Texas fever among native stock. Several farmers lost quite a number of their cattle from what was supposed to be Texas fever. A number of arrests were made of those who had been instrumental in bringing stock into the county, but it was seldom that a conviction was had. It was a dis- puted question as to whether or not the stock died from the effects of disease contracted from those introduced, and there was a large-enough element in the county interested in bringing cattle in from the south to make quite a sentiment in the minds of the public opposed to such prose- cution. However, the law was finally enforced so vigorously that few parties attempted its violation.
FIELD CROPS.
On the pages following will be found, in tabulated form, a full report of the various field crops of the county, from 1872 to 1892 inclusive, showing acreage, product, and value. For these valuable tables I am indebted to the Reports of the State Board of Agriculture.
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TABLE showing the acres, product and value of field crops in Labette county.
1872.
1873.
CROPS.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product .*
Value .*
Winter wheat.
bu.
23,765
475,300
$712.950
23,765
Spring wheat.
bu.
51
612
612
84
Corn.
bu.
31,486
1,083,915
216,783
34,631
Oats
bu.
11,113
333,390
66,178
10,608
Rye.
bu.
131
1,834
1,375
283
Barley
bu.
12
468
374
16
Buckwheat.
bu.
92
1,380
1,380
49
Irish potatoes
bu.
764
60,356
36,213
1,380
Sweet potatoes
bu.
30
3,090
2,317
64
Sorghum.
gals.
286
16,302
8.151
379
Castor beans.
bu.
186
3,720
5,208
156
Cotton
lbs.
3
996
199
107
Flax
.bu.
1
10
12
41
Tobacco ..
lbs.
4
2,000
400
10
Millet and Hung'n
tons
745
1,762
8,810
576
Timothy meadow.
tons
214
428
4,280
214
Clover meadow.
.tons
205
410
2,460
207
Prairie meadow
tons
16,711
25,066
75,198
8,810
Timothy pasture
34
6
Clover pasture ..
10
10
Blue-grass pasture
462
463
Prairie pasture.
28,068
27,238
Totals.
114,373
109,048
1875.
CROPS.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Winter wheat ..
.bu.
32,402
583,236
$466,588
38,075
761,515
$723,139
Spring wheat.
bu.
36
360
234
12
150
112
Corn.
bu.
37,641
752,820
526,974
44,490
1,868,601
373,720
Oats
bu.
7,836
117,540
58,770
6,391
242,886
48,577
Ry
bu.
262
5,240
3,668
313
7,210
4,326
Barley
.bu.
41
779
662
3
90
108
Buckwheat.
bu.
38
380
570
5
110
123
Irish potatoes.
bu.
1,330
26,600
33,250
1,109
138,731
55,492
Sweet potatoes
.bu.
91
6,825
10,920
99
15,497
11,622
Sorghum.
gals.
485
38,800
25,220
905
113,244
48,128
Castor beans
bu.
800
9.600
12.000
1,564
18,777
18,777
Cotton
lbs.
90
8,100
1,053
101
20,298
2,029
Flax.
.bu.
436
4,360
7,040
2,036
20,362
24,434
Hemp.
lbs.
4
3,000
150
5
4,125
2,681
Tobacco.
lbs.
17
11,900
1,190
12
8.834
66:2
Broom corn.
lbs.
51
37,800
1,753
95
78,994
3,949
Millet and Hung'n.
tons
1,104
2,208
13,248
1,215
3,950
15,800
Timothy meadow.
.tons
343
515
3,090
266
333
1,998
Clover meadow ..
tons
189
378
2,268
63
159
954
Prairie meadow
tons
5,485
5,485
21,940
10,055
15,082
60,328
Timothy pasture.
83
Clover pasture.
25
Blue-grass pasture.
21
Prairie pasture.
24,708
Totals
113,521
106,825
$1,397,264
* There is nothing of record, either in the office of the State Board of Agriculture, or elsewhere, which shows the product and value by counties for 1873 .- [ N. C.
1874.
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TABLE showing the acres, product and value of field crops in Labette county.
CROPS.
1877.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
l'alue.
Winter wheat.
.bu.
40,297
604, 455
$544,009
25,557
255,570
$247,902
Corn.
bu.
47,748
1,909,920
420,182
66,759
bu.
11,861
343.969
85,992
8,579
394,634
59,195
Barley
bu.
8
240
144
77
1.925
577
Irish potatoes.
bu.
1,736
260,512
208,410
1,061
106,100
53.050
Sorghum
gals.
436
17.987
23,993
743
85.445
42.722
Cotton
lbs
61
12,350
1,235
31
5,270
527
Hemp.
1b.s.
74
74,500
4,283
Tobacco.
lbs.
32
25,704
2,570
30
22,200
2. 2.20
Millet and Hung'n
tons
2,178
4,356
30,492
3,140
9.420
37,680
Clover meadow.
tons
152
304
2,133
84
168
840
Timothy pasture.
11,004
18,706
54.249
Clover pasture.
1
28
Prairie pasture
25,585
26,590
Totals
139,784
146,998
CROPS.
1879.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
l'alue.
Winter wheat
bu.
33,135
430,755
$279,990
26,389
395,835
$376,043
Corn
.bu.
65,985
2,243,490
426.263
77.549
2,946,862
736,715
Rye
bu.
368
6,992
2,097
289
4,335
1,734
Buckwheat
bu.
154
3,090
2.472
80
1,211
1,090
Sweet potatoes
bu.
95
10,836
7,910
128
8,988
8,988
Castor beans
bu.
1,900
26,607
33,258
6,603
79,242
79,242
Flax
hu.
370
3,705
3,705
575
1,025
4,025
Tobacco.
Ibs.
13
10,278
1,027
23
17.412
1,741
Millet and Hung'n
tons
2.021
6,063
24,252
2,830
8.490
33 960
Clover meadow
tons
209
418
2,092
347
555
2.778
Timothy pasture.
10,376
13,488
39,117
Clover pasture ..
23
30
Prairie pasture
31,831
30,792
Totals
178,258
£1.075,188
177,549
$1.492,438
bu.
19
190
104
4:2
336
285
Oats
bu.
13,376
454,784
72.765
16,746
385.158
100,141
Barley
.bu.
69
2,070
1,035
75
1,350
675
Irish potatoes
bu.
1,312
78.720
45,657
1,001
45,180
38,403
Sorghum.
gals.
688
79.134
39,567
986
113,390
51,025
Cotton
lbs.
1
255
17
2.975
267
Hemp
lbs.
1/4
230
13
Broom corn
lbs.
36
28.904
1,083
130
91,133
3,189
Timothy meadow.
tons
1,139
1,937
9.68%
1,735
2,603
13,016
Prairie meadow
tons
24,783
12,131
122,179
251
167
Blue-grass pasture.
475
10
32
20
17
Rye.
bu.
389
7,780
1,356
200
2.800
840
Buckwheat.
bu.
73
965
868
1.184
947
Sweet potatoes
bu.
120
24,100
19.280
81
12,600
12,600
Castor beans
. bu.
531
6,372
11,894
1,615
22,610
22,610
Flax.
bu.
1,955
17,595
29.325
311
3,454
3,626
Broom corn
lbs.
173
139,000
5,560
166
132,800
4.980
Timothy meadow .. .tons
220
275
1,926
673
1,144
5,720
Prairie meadow.
.tons
5,738
5,738
22,952
212
50
Blue-grass pasture
195
137
Oats
2,670,360
480,664
Spring wheat.
bu.
5
1876.
632
-4
1878.
Spring wheat
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TABLE showing the acres, product and value of field crops in Labette county.
1880.
1881.
CROPS.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Winter wheat.
bu.
35.628
434,420
$412,699
40,518
405,180
$445,698
Spring wheat.
.bu.
13
104
88
11
55
52
Corn
bu.
70,806
2,265,792
566,448
94,061
1,696.098
981.996
Oats
bu.
12,192
426,720
110,947
8,052
249,612
82,371
Rye.
bu.
372
5,580
2.232
436
6,104
4,761
Barley
bu.
52
780
390
8
208
166
Buckwheat
bu.
3:2
384
345
48
576
432
Irish potatoes
bu.
1,297
129,700
110.245
3,097
77,425
116.137
Sweet potatoes
bu.
113
14,736
14.736
184
10,120
15,180
Sorghum
gals.
536
61.709
27,769
506
43,010
20 614
Castor beans.
bu.
6,885
82,620
82,620
8,071
104,923
146,892
Cotton
lbs.
175
29,750
2,677
66,600
6,660
Flax.
bu.
1,092
9,828
9,828
680
5,440
7,616
Hemp.
lbs.
21
25,500
1,530
5
4,200
294
Tobacco
lbs.
6
4,440
444
25
17,500
1.750
Broom corn
lbs.
37
22,650
792
430
279,500
12,577
Rice corn
bu.
20
400
160
9
90
58
Pearl millet
tons
111
445
1,780
463
1,620
8.910
Millet and Hung'n .... .tons
4,049
12,147
48,588
3,719
8,368
62,760
Timothy meadow.
tons
1,056
2.112
10,560
923
1,615
12,112
Clover meadow.
tons
371
619
3,248
614
1,288
9,660
Prairie meadow.
.tons
9,975
14,963
43,392
15,892
22,249
144,618
Timothy pasture
288
509
Clover pasture.
6:2
Blue-grass pasture
808
Other grasses
29,502
39,139
Totals
175,501
$1,451.522
218,350
$2,081,350
CROPS.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Winter wheat
bu.
25,571
562,562
$450,049
34,667
416,004
$353,603
Spring wheat.
bu.
25
300
210
483
4,347
3 042
Corn
bn.
83,125
3,325,000
1,163,750
89,249
4,016,205
1,201,861 156,037
Rye.
bu.
566
10,754
5,914
994
Barley
bu.
41
1,148
516
Buckwheat
bu.
43
344
258
35
315
236
Irish potatoes
bu.
1,030
82,400
57,680
1,632
130,560
78.336
Sweet potatoes
bu.
94
7,050
7,050
140
12,600
12.600
Sorghum
gals.
709
63.810
28,714
754
66,352
27,867
Castor beans
.bu.
12,036
110,754
110,754
2,931
32,241
48,361
Cotton
lbs.
130
24,050
2.405
76
17,100
1,539
Flax.
bu.
2,004
24,048
22,845
1,400
14,000
15,400
Tobacco.
lbs.
16
11,200
1,120
25
20,000
2,000
Broom corn.
lbs.
165
82,500
3,712
215
107,500
3,762
Rice corn
bu.
352
176
56
1,120
392
Pearl millet
tons
196
588
2,352
Millet and Hung'n. .tons
5,579
16,737
100,422
8,941
29,058
101.703
Timothy meadow ..
tons
1,684
3,368
20,208
2,159
4,318
21.590
Clover meadow.
tons
224
560
3.360
672
1,512
7,560
Prairie meadow
tons
25,058
37,587
150,348
1,818
4,091
14,318
Prairie, under fence ... tons
70,200
91,260
273,780
Timothy pasture.
318
Clover pasture
15
Other grasses.
1,118
Prairie pasture
56,934
Totals
229,610
$2.271.242
230.317
$2.326 991
Oats
bu.
12,907
516,280
139.395
13,870
624,150
115
583
Prairie pasture.
1882.
1883.
Other tame grasses.
tons
67
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1884.
1885
CROPS. .
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Winter wheat
.bu.
35,404
672,676
$417,059
11,873
142,476
$106,857
Spring wheat. bn.
bu.
95.474
3,914,434
861,175
102,808
2,570.200
771,060
Oats
bu.
13,612
558,092
128,361
16,007
560,245
140,061
Rye ..
bu.
791
15,029
7,514
748
7,480
3,740
Buckwheat
bu.
14
112
34
408
204
Irish potatoes
bu.
1,776
222,000
155,400
1,489
89,340
62,538
Sweet potatoes
.bu.
54
7.020
5,616
81
3,240
2,592
Sorghum.
gals.
385
38,500
15.400
351
11,730
Castor beans.
bu.
2,708
35,204
52,806
6,448
64,480
103,168
Flax
bu.
1,395
16,740
18,414
1,791
10,746
9,671
Tobacco
1bs
1
850
85
4
3,200
320
Broom corn
lbs.
85
46,750
1,636
75
45,000
1,800
Rice corn
bu.
163
3,260
198,231
14,587
43,761
175,044
Timothy
tons
3,025
5,808
37,752
8,709
7
Clover
tons
1,697
3,818
22,908
2,715
30,498
152,490
Blue grass.
tons
2,796
6,990
34,950
781
Prairie, under feuce ... tons
66,916
95,020
403,835
66,676
47,959
167,856
Totals
237,218
$2,362,455
238,275
$1,709,497
CROPS.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Acres.
Product.
Value.
Winter wheat.
bu.
17,812
213,744
$149,621
15,816
316,320
$189.792
Corn
bu. 104,383
1,878,894
657,612
85,063
2,126.575
744,301
Oats
.bu.
20,494
614,820
184,446
23,926
837,410
209,352
Rye.
Du.
749
11,984
5,992
138
2,070
828
Barley
bu.
5
100
30
20
400
160
Buckwheat
.bu.
1,511
90,660
54,396
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