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Flax Seed.— Amount produced, 173,710 bushels. Value $156,393, at 90 

 cents per bushel. 



Potatoes. — Bushels produced, 9,352,190 — average per acre 84 bushels; 

 value 50 cents per bushel; total $4,676,045. 



Hay — TAME. — Area harvested 3,598,500 acres, total output 6,477,300 

 tons, or 1.8 tons per acre. Value of crop $35,625,150, at $5.50 per ton. 



Hay — wii-n. — Amount harvested 1,313,310 tons; an average 1.2 tons 

 per acre. Value of crop $5,909,895 at $4.50 per ton. 



Pastueage and Grazing. — This item includes pastures, grazing in 

 meadows, and grain fields after harvest and in corn fields in fall and win- 

 ter months, and can be estimated only by reconing its value as a factor 

 in the production of farm animals and animal products of all kinds. In 

 my judgment the farms of this state should be credited with the full 

 value of the soil output which is the real basis of our great animal in- 

 dustry, and I have tentatively placed the estimate at about $400 per 

 farm, believing that is below rather than above the average. The total 

 output is placed at $80,000,000. 



TABULATED CROP SUMMARY. 



Crops. 



Total Products. 



Farm Value 

 Dec. 1. 



Corn 



"Wheat 



Oats 



Barley 



Rye 



Potatoes 



Flax seed 



Hay (tame) • 



Hay (wild) • 



Pasturage and Grazing- 

 (cornfields, etc.) • 



Buckwheat • 



Sweet potatoes • 



Sorghum and broom corn ■ 



Timothy seed •• 



Clover seed 



Millet and alfalfa 



Sweet corn 



Fruit crops and gardens., 



Total soil products 



S45,871,840 bus. 



6,408,780 bus. 



146,439,240 bus. 



15.566,770 bus. 



1,283,500 bus. 



9,352,190 bus. 



173,770 bus. 



6,477,300 tons 



1,313,310 tons 



Estimated 



$121,055,144 



4,614,321 



36,609,810 



5,137,034 



667,420 



4,677,045 



35,625,150 



156.393 



5,909,895 



80,000,000 



85,000 



135,000 



190,000 



1.200,000 



195,000 



520.000 



510,000 



5,000,000 



$302,286,212 



In the above estimate of the value of cereal products no account was 

 made of the increment derived from the consumption of these staple 

 crops on the farms. 



