Farm Statistics

Robert L. Ilewitt, cliief of the Michigan census bureau, Wednesday inorning issued some irrteresting tables show - ing the number of farms in the state elassifled according to tenure, and tlie dairy statistics of the state as returned in the state census of June 1, 1894. No farm of less than th.ree acres was returned unless two hundred dollars worth of produce was sold off from it during the year. The total number of farms in the state is 177,952, of which 149,093 are cultivated by owners, 9,127 are rented for flxed money rental, and 19,732 are rented for shares of products. In 1884 the total number of farms returned in the census was 157,389, of which 523 were cultivated by owners, 5,657 were rented for flxed money rental, and 13,209 were rented for shares of products. Of the total number of farms in the state, 88.01 per cent, in 1884, and 83.78 per cent. in 1894 were cultivated by owners ; 3.60 per cent. in 1884, and 5.13 per cent. in 1895 were rented for money ; and 8.39 per cent. in 1884, and 11.09 per cent. in 1894 were rented for shares of products. The proportion of farms cultivated by owners was 2.01 percent less in 1890 than in 1884, and 2.22 per cent less in 1S94 than in 1890. Beginning with 1880, in each one farms in the state, the number cultivated by owners at each census w-as as follows : In 1880, 900; 1885, 880; 1890, 860; 1894, 838. The state totals óf the dairy statistics are as follows : Total milk produced on farms, 212,070,373 gallons ; value of all milk and cream sold from farms, $2,!'70,3S5 : butter made on farms, 48,951,378 pounds ; cheese made on farms, 206,((0 pounds. These totals are for the year ending June 1, 1894. The national census of dairy producís taken June 1, 1890, including the products of the year ending December 31, 1889, shows as follows : Milk produced, 224,537,488 gallons ; butter made on farms, 50,197,481 pounds; cheese made on farms, 328,682 pounds. The products as shown by the present census are less than the national census totals by 12,467,115 gallons of milk, 1,246,103 pounds of butter, and 122,022 pounds of cheese.