BlockShelby County, Missouri - Chapter 9, 1911 (part 2 of 2)
From General History of Shelby County, Missouri, published 1911. 281 words, reproduced complete and unedited. Source changes inside the text are labelled in place.
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281 wordsMachine-read from scans of General History of Shelby County, Missouri, published 1911. Nothing has been corrected: fixing what looks like a misspelled name is how an invented one gets published. Source changes are marked where they occur.
Total money actually paid to Hannibal & Northern Missouri Railroad Company by citizens as below designed - up to and including- December 28, 1910 :
Chief Pursuits And Surplus Products
Shelby county, generally speaking, is an agricultural and live stock county. The principal crops raised in the county are corn, wheat, oats, timothy and clover. Yet the county produces some alfalfa and other varieties of small grain. The county is well adapted for grazing and the soil i3roduces blue grass that equals,- if not surpasses, the famous blue grass of Kentucky. The chief live stock products are horses, mules, cattle, hogs, sheep, goats and poultry of all kinds. There are 514 square miles of land surface, which equals 328,960 acres. Of this amount of land 250,000 acres are subject to plow. The farms average 120 acres and are actually worth $16,000,000.
stock annually, besides other farm products. And in order that the reader may have some idea of the value of these products, we quote from the labor commissioner's report of the state the following figures :
In 1902 the aggregate value of all commodities, computed at prevailing prices, and which represented the county's surplus products, amounted to $922,535. The county excelled all others in the state in the shipment of timothy seed that year.
In 1904 the total value of exports amounted to $1,796,298.11, an increase of $363,643.85 over the value of the sur- ])lus products shipped from the countj' during the year 1903.
In 1908 there was a slight falling off, the total value amounting to $2,564,006. But the county has steadily increased her ex])orts since that time until today she stands in the front rank of the agricultural counties of the entire state.
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Text from General History of Shelby County, Missouri, published 1911, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive.