Excerpt from Preliminary Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 1899 The Division of Institutes has charge, also, of the work of col leeting information in regard to the price of farm products and live stock. The statistics are furnished by four reporters in. Each county, selected because of their general intelligence, good judgment and reliability. The blanks are sent to them about the first of October, after the season's crop is fully grown, and prices are accurately known. Refer-ence to the reports 'of these observers, shows a re markable degree of uniformity in yield and price throughout the State. Wheat averaged 68 cents per bushel; corn 42 cents; oats 32 cents; clover hay per ton; timothy hay per ton; butter in the markets 20 cents per pound; ewes per head; lambs per head; horses $7 mules cows chickens, dressed, 11 cents per pound; farm labor, by the month for the whole year with board, farm labor, for the summer months only, with board, $15. 83; farm labor by the day, regular work with board, 80 cents; without board, harvest wages by the day, household work with board by the week, and the average estimated cost of boarding farm hands per day, is given at 35 cents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.