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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 



CROP 



Famu reporting, 1909 



Number 



Per cent 

 of nil 

 farms 



Acres 



1909 1899 



Value of products 



1899 



Vegetables, other than potatoes and sweet potatoes and 



yams, total 



Farms reportini! a product of 1500 or over — 

 All otber farms 



Flowers and planta, total 



Farms reporting a product of $250 or over. 

 All otber farms 



Nursery products, total 

 Fi 



U,271 



65 



4.206 



5 

 3 

 2 



38.9 



0.6 



38.3 



(') 

 (.') 



2,933 



228 

 2,705 



1,431 



arms reporting a product of $250 or over. 

 All other farms 





$332,120 



51,687 



280,433 



12,280 



12,020 



260 



1,680 



$87,882 



2,480 



215 



1,680 



' Does not include 1,503 farms which reported that they had vegetable gardens, but gave no information as to their products, 

 ' L^s than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 

 ' Reported in small fractions. 



In 1909 the total acreage of potatoes 

 and other vegetables was 11,266 and their 

 value $856,639. Excluding (so far as re- 

 ported separately*) potatoes and sweet 

 potatoes and yams, the acreage of veg- 

 etables was 2,933 and their value $332,000, 

 the acreage being more than twice and 



the value nearly four times as great as 

 in 1899. 



The raising of flowers and plants and 

 of nursery products was unimportant in 

 Wyoming. 



Small fruits: 1909 and 1899. The fol- 

 lowing table shows data with regard to 

 small fruits on farms: 



1 Reported in small fractions. 



The total production of all small fruits 

 in Wyoming in 1909 was 96,883 quarts 

 and in 1899, 37,330 quarts, and the value 

 was $13,984 in 1909, as compared with 

 $4,964 in 1899. The most important of 

 the small fruits in 1909 were currants. 



Orchard fruits, grapes and nuts: 1909 

 and 1899. The following table presents 



• It is probable that some of the potatoes 

 and sweet potatoe.s and yams raised In farm 

 gardens were not reported 8eparatel.v b.v farm- 

 ers, but were Included In their returns for 

 vegetables. 



data with regard to orchard fruits, 

 grapes and nuts. The acreage devoted 

 to these products was not ascertained. In 

 comparing one year with the other the 

 number of trees or vines of bearing age 

 is on the whole a better index of the 

 general changes or tendencies than the 

 quantity of product, but the data for the 

 censuses of 1910 and 1900 are not closely 

 comparable, and the product is there- 

 fore compared, although variations may 

 be due largely to temporarily favorable 

 or unfavorable climatic conditions. 



