The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-30
ARrIcaIraral Repors.

| Hon. Alfred tray, secretary OF the
State Board of Agriculture, has just.
got out his monthly reports for the
months of August, September and
October.
AS usual, it is an interesting and
valuable document. In this issue
Mr.. Gray gives q list of his cores
pondents throughout the State, on
which he depends, in part at least,
for the information which he pub
fishes IN these reports.
DISEASE AMONG Farm ANIMALS.
FU1der.the above head ME. Gray
has reports, which he gives from
every county in the State, which is
snnmarised a. fall0Bs :sz za z
The foregaing reports on live,
stock show apparently general COM
plant Of sickness among hogs, but
ian analysis of our reports, and COM
parison with the tables of condition,
| show that the real amOunt ofloss is
smeII, that the complaints are con-
fined TO localities, and the October
reports state general Improvement
over August, the officially being
aa4flY abated. Eskis4
We give on page 3 consolidated
fable Of conditions Of farm animals
for the three months. The State
average on cattle is 107; work ami
mats, lob; horses and mules, IO4
sheep, 102; swine. 1O8.
For August, the averages were:
Cattle, l0S; work animals, 104
horses and mules, 104; sheep, l02 !;
swine, l08.
ForSeptember: Cattle, 1O6 work
animals, 104 horses and mules, l0
sheep, 102; swine, 1O7.
For October: Cattle, log; work
animals, 102; horses and mules, l04 !;
sheep, I01 swine, 100. Work ami
mails thin in some parts of the State
from continued heavy fall work.
AS rule, the distinctive marks
or characteristics of the various dis
eases by correspondents are toe in
definite to distinguish the disease,
without which information it is i'm
possible TO suggest remedies. I'm
less the dag nosis can be correctly
determined, il is safer to rely upon
hygienic measures instead of dosing
with petroleumland other supposed
remedies, the specific effects of
which are not, in most cases, known
to the person administering the
same.
Some kind of fever among horses,
more or less fatal, is reported in
certain parts of the State.
The report then gives from YOuatt
on the disease of the horse q dag
nosis and cure for fever in that AMI
NAL.
There is also published an article
on the hog cholera and other diseas-
es of swine, which should be in the
hands of every one raising hogs.
We give below the entire report
on wheat except tables by coun-
ties:
We have made an effort to pro-
cure correct average yields Of the
principal crops, six of which are
given-winter and spring wheat,
rye, barley corn and oats. The reet |
will follow in next monthly report. |
We have asked tins information for |
the months of July, August, Sep |
TENDER and October, from our reg
ular correspondents, and, in ad0i-i
ton thereto, we scattered postal |
inent farmers in the various coun-
ties. From all these returns we
made an average for each county.
1t will be observed by reference
to tables commencing on page IL, |
that the winter wheat product for |
the State Is 9,7l4.171 bushels, against
II, 73S,4O9 in 1876, q decrease of
2,O24,237 bushels, while the average
Sen1 1. Il,
against 15.47 in 1876.
The product of spring wheat this
year is 3,518,3 last year, 2.8Sl.-
SI7 an Increase over last year of
636, 569 bushels. An average yield
in 1877, II bushels; in 1876, 1859
bushels.
Winter and spring wheat products
for 1877 aggregate 1925, 557; in
1876, 14,62O, 225; decrease in one
yesr:of ], 4S7 1858 bushels. The causes
which have produced the decrease
in winter wheat are exceptional.
A portion of the winter wheat area
was destroyed by locusts in the fall
of 1876. That which was resown
uniformly yielded poorly. Then
the excess of rainfall during the
blossOming period, and subsequent
ly up to and during harvest, have
conspired to produce the results
named. Spring wheat was remark
ably good this year, especially in
the northwestern part of the State,
and farmers are preparing TO put In
very large area next spring. This
is very questionable policy. The
SOD, Neoeho, Bourbon, Miami and
~ g. A.,
part of the State, have lost more
State has from devastation of To-
Gusts. Spring wheat has behaved
splendidly this year In the west and
ing the general favorlse. 1t is a
chinch bug in dry seasons as sure as
il is sown. Farmers are therefore
assuming q fearful responsibility,
and hazardiDg nearly all crops not
only, but arc assuming because
sp ring wheat has done remarkably
well In 1877, It will continue to do
so.
The following tabular statement
for six years, from 1872 to 1877 in
elusive, of winter and spring wheat,
viii show the progress in acreage
and product each is making in the
s'Ase. @ s
Year. Acreage. Product.
s !sss :. s sss:sss s &c: S
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