Washtenaw's Products

The sixteenth animal report of Secretary of State Washington Gardner relating to farmers and farm statistics has just been sent out. It contains a great many interestirig facta relative to the agricultural interests of each county. Table one of the volume contains the land in farms for 1894. In Washtenaw county there is a total of 378,116 acres, of which 277,040 are improved, 101,076 unimproved. The total nurnber of . farms is 3,201, and the average number of acres per farm is 118.12. York townshiptakesthe lead with 22,154 acres, 17,573 improved, 4,581 unimproved, The total nuniber of farms is 245, averaging 90.43 acres. Dexter leads in size, her farms averaging 172,15 acres. Augusta has the smallest acreagein farms, 13,579, of which 9,184 are improved 4,395 unimproved ; average acreage 75.44 the smallest in the country. Table two relate? to wheat, corn and oats produced in Michigan for 1893, and the number of acres in wheat in May, 1894. Washtenaw is fourth in wheat acreage, Calhoim leading with Kalamazoo county second and St. Joseph third. Washtenaw has a total of 57,366 acres, raising 983,902 bushels, an average of 17.15 per acre. This was 1893. In 1894 she was still fourth in acreage, although the table had decreased to 49,878 acres. Washtenaw was twelfth ín per acre average. Luce county being highest at 25.61 bushels per acre. In acreage of corn Washtenaw stood sixth with 28,608 acres, yielding 1,653,641 bushels. In oat acreage this county stood fourteenth with 21,767 acres, a total yield of 694,139 bushels. Lima township led Washtenaw in acreage of wheat having 3,823 acres, yielding 71,719 bushels, an average of 18.76 bushels per acre. Saline led in bushels per acre, the yield being 19.15 bushels per acre, just two bushels above the average. Sharon led the counties in corn, with 2,173 acres. York led in yield with 146,235 bushels. Saline bears the palm in oat acreage with 1,641 acres with a yield of 54,527. York was ahead in yield with 56,735 bushels. Of potatoes the country raised in 1893' 107,046 bushels from 2,044 acres, York township leading with 206 acres and a yield of 20,802. Of liay there were 57,264 acres with a yield of 78,561 tons, Salem leading with 3,709 acres and 5,281 tons. Scio led in yield with 5,568 tons. "Washtenaw county had 127,759 sheep in 1894, and a wool erop of 896,81S pounds. Lodi led in production of wool. ■Vashtenaw is credited with 647.87 acres in peach orchards, a yield of 11,815 bushels, valued at $13,003. Ann Arbor township leads in peach culture. a