Washtenaw Products

According to the thirteenth anuual report of the Secretary of State on farms and farm producís, a copy of whlch is just received at this office, there were in 1891. 3,416 farms in Washtenaw, or an average of a trifle over 113 acres to the farm of, which 81 acres was improved. The township with the most farms is Ypsilanti, which contained 266. The township with farms of the smallest average size was Ann Arbor, the average being 77 J acres. The largest average farms are in Lyndon, the average being 168 acres. In Scio the average farmer has 160 acres. The number of farms in the various townships are as follows: Ann Arbor, 235; Augusta, 184; Bridgewater, 198; Dexter, 109; Freedom, 177; Liraa, 156; Lodi, 158; Lyndon, 121; Manchester, 227; JSorthfleld, 162; Pittsfield, 113; Salem, 207; Saline, 167; Scio, 135; Sharon, 129; Superior, 188; Sylvan, 169; Webster, 136; York, 266; Ypsilanti, 179. The total number of improved acres of land in farm in the county is 278,538 and of the unimproved 387,855, LIVE STOCK AND W00L. There were in 1891, in this county, 11,553 horses, 10,201 milch covvs, 7,576 cattle other thau milch cows, 11,073 liogs and 120,646 sheep. This did not include the horses owned in the cities. York had more horses than any other ;ownship, its numbers being 910. Augusta liad the least number, 310. Ann Arbor town had 434; Pittsfield, 519; Scio, 675; Saline, 331; Bridgewater, 775; Manchester, 601. York also bas the most milch cows, 772. Dexter bas the least number, 295. Scio has the largest number of cattle other than milch cows, 675, and Saline foots the list with 202. York has the most hogs, 1,047, while Salem has only 202. Manchester comes to the front in sheep, having 9,197, while Augusta is put down for only 1,583. The number of sheep In the eounty was 3,3B2 mere üi' 1891 than it was in 1890 when 117,264 sheep were enrolled. The production of wool in 1890 in this eounty was 833, 002, or a little less than five pounds a head. As the wool statistics are of considerable interest they are given in full in the following table: 1891. 1890. Towns. No. of sheep. Lbs. ofwool AnnArbor 5,334 36,048 Augusta 1,583 10,531 Bridgewater 8,223 58,119 Dexter 4,537 31,145 Freedom 8,003 43.915 Lima 8.619 51.707 Lodi 7,103 56,743 Lyndon 6,857 54,840 Manchester 9.197 59,410 Northfleld 5,487 36,980 Pittsfleld 4,763 37,666 Salem 4,464 32,315 Saline 4,230 32,394 Scio 4,590 30,962 Sharon 7,543 49,801 Superior 6,426 43,412 Sylvan 6.343 34,653 Webster 7,848 51,492 York 5,614 47,088 Ypsilanti 3,782 28,346 Ypsilanti City 100 500 WHEAT GROWING. Washtenaw eounty stood third among the counties of the state in the number of bushels of wheat raised during the years 1890, 1889, 188S! In 1887 it was ninth and in 1860 it headed the list. The average yield per acre in 1890 was 17.21 bushels. In 18S7 it was only 11.18 bushels and in 1886 it was 19.78 bushels. It 1889 the average yield was 15.21 bushels per acre. In 1889 the value of the wheat raised was $675,606, while the secretary figured that it had cost $829,100 to raise it. In 1890 there were 57,929 acres sowed to wheat in the eounty and the yield was 996,751 bushels. In 1891 there were 64,525 acres planted. The largest yield per acre was in Lima where the average was 20.2 and the lowest was in Superior, 12.91. The greatest number of bushels, 76,682, were raised in Saline, the smallest number, 23,113, being in Augusta. Saline had 4,163 acres of wheat and Augusta only 1,343. CORN, OATS, POTATOES AND HAY, In 1890, the eounty had 29,460 acres of corn, 22,518 acres of oats, 1,711 acres of potatoes and 48,116 acres of hay. The yield was 1,698,631 bushels of corn in the ear, 725,350 bushels of oats, 131,111 bushels of potatoes and 58,517 tons of hay. York raised the most corn, 142,636 bushels, Freedom raised the least, 55,550 bushels. York raised 54,809 bushels of oats and again beads the list, while Lyndon raised 14,080 bushels. York also led on potatoes, 1 14,064 bushels against 3.691 bushels in Dexter. Bridgewater had the most hay, 4,085 tons, and Dexter the least, 1,536 tons. FKUITS. There were 7,158 acres of apple orchards in 1891 and 22,934 bushels of apples raised in 1890. Superior has the greatest area of apple orchards, 493 acres, and Augusta has 163. There were 305 acres of peaches in 1891 and 6,561 bushels raised in 1890. Ann Arbor town had 123i acres of peach orchards and raised 4,176 bushels of peaehes. The total value of apples and peaches sold in 1890 was $19,787, of wliioh $8,201 was in Ann Arbor town. Ann Arbor was almost the only town reporting on small fruit. In this township $404 worth of cherries, pears and plunis were sold in 1890, 190 bushels of strawberries worth $525 and $5,087 vorth f other berries, $1,599 worth of grape3 and $1,358 ruarket garden products.