Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-08-13

We are in receipt of the report OF
the secretary of the Kansas state board
OF agriculture for July 3lst, from
which we take the folio wing extracts
WHEAT.
During the month of July many adj
verse reports We're received at this of.
flee concerning the yield Of winter
wheat. The complaint seemed genera
that heavy rains accompanied by wind
storms, and immediately followed by
cloudlcss skies and intense heat, had
prevented the wheat from Iilling prop
crly, and causing rust and blight. II
was reported also that the rains aud
wind heat down the rank growths OF
small grain, aud that a large per cent.
of il was badly lodged" and could
not be harvested by machinery.
The result of the compilation OF the
reports of over 400 correspondents
for the month of July shows that
while the adverse conditions mention
ed above existed in the majority of
the counties, the injury to the state as
whole has not been nearly so severe
rs has been anticipated. As compared
with the June estimates, there is loss
in the yield of thiriy-thrce counties. a
gain in iwenty-cight, while the remain
r-ninetecn-report the sane acre
age Weld that they did one month ago.
The counties having the largest loss
are Mcpherson, from % to 10. and
Reno. from % To IL, while all the coun-
ties west OF Mcpherson increase their
former estimates. The counties Dor
.lcring on the state of Missouri and
south OF the Kansas river also cxpcr
fenced loss in Weld from the ravages
Of chinch bugs, and in Cherokee hot
southwestern wind at harvest time
caused a noticeable shrinkagc i'm the
Weld, aud in the same county there
was a larger per cent. Of chess
previous wear. The varieties
most affected by rust and
blight were May in sumner, Fultz and
MAY in the east central counties, and
Russian or Turkey in McPherson, Sa-
line and Dickinson. In the central
counties the early yarities and those
sown early were not injured apprccia-
bly,, while the later varieties, and the
sown fields, and especially that sown
in stalk fields, suffered considerably.
The counties living west OF the merid-
ian of Mcpherson county had no adj
verse conditions To contend with, ex-
cept tie lack OF harvest hands and
machinery. The average Weld for
this section would probably have been
from two 10 three bushels larger had
there been enough farm hands and
to handle the grain grown.
As il is, however, the western portion
of the state has secured the largest
wheat crop ever before grown in that
section. and the farmers of that re-
gion are entirely satisfied with The re-
suits of the wheat harvest.
4. j. Davis, of Stockton. Il cores |
respondent of Rocks county. SAYS:
IL have heard of but one field of wheat |
thai. has fallen below twenty bushels |
per acre. have reports from thirty |
fields that exceed thirty bushels per
acre. also have IA report of one field |
averaging iifty-one and one fourth |
bushels. which will he duly certified ut |
the proper time" Ia Russell county.
one field of 800 acres averaged thirty |
bushels, and extraordinary yields are
reported from all of the western coin-
ties. In the eastern portion of the
state. the counties Allen. Anderson.
Ncosho, Montgomery, Elk, Chautau-
qua. Wilson and Woodson have been
almost together free from the adverse
mentioned before, and have
IN unusually large wheat
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20 respondent from Woodsom county.
md president of the Neosho Valley
District Agricultural Fair Association.
,avs: "All varieties of winter wheat
nave made the best Yields ever known
in this section. Benz McWilliams, of
his county threshed nine and
,ne fourth acres. of Fultz wheat
which made an average
,ield of n little over ~ bushels per
icre. Joseph Robinson. also of this
county,. threshcd 20 acres of a variety
Known rs German that averaged 81
bushels per acre. The threshers that
have seen say that they have thresh-
Il but one field that made rs low
'icld as 20 bushels. They think the
ounty average will be over % bush
Is. have on INV farm As acres of
russian wheat that is estimated at
rom 30 To 81 bushels per acre"
'hrcshers report. i'm Montgomery
ounty. yields of from 20 TO As busheis
'er acre. A. &. Spillman. of Roxbury,
peaking of the loss in yield in that
ounty. says: "Thc continued wet
weather. just preceding harvest had a
lighting effect upon the late varieties.
specially Turkey, which is a heavily
earded, soft straw wheat, but as ,
hreshing progresses the damage does
ot seem SO great as was feared.
otc yields of Turkey all the way
rom IL TO 30 bushels"
Abstracts of assessors returns for ,
Ssi have been received from all of the /,
organized counties. and
of these gives an area of
inter wheat sown in the Fail of 1888.
>, l69 ,67S acres. OF this area 1896
ere not harvested. having been des-
rovcd from freezing and other causes.
his is the smallest loss ever noted in
nc history of the state, being bu: Q
tile more than two-thirds of one per- a
INT. The area harvested was 2,l5l,- n
IS acres, from which an average yield !,
as obtained. as now estimated. If
LIS bushels per acre, or a product II
" the state of 46.Sl1. 1855 bushels, r
hich is less than the June estimate n
V more than 100000 bushels.
SPRING wHEAt.
The area of spring wheat is increas. v
yer that of last year 6,l62 acres, or e
gbt per cent. The average yield "
er acre is 1886. or larger than that of >.
,S3 by over three bushels. AS viii
, observed, by consulting the follow
% table by counties. the area is con- G.
ned almost altogether to the men, r.
,rs of the northern tier OF counties. s.
his crop has been constantly declin- ~
Q i'm area and importance during the r
lst five wears, and will soon cease TO o
. cultivated by Kansas farmers. The $,
'oduct of spring wheat added TO :.
at of winter wheat gives a total !"
heat product in the state of 1925 u
2 bushels. OF
RYE.
The area sown in the fall Of 1888 m
as less than that sown the previous
ar by 1868 acres, making an area :
= this year of 3o4 1898 acres. OF this u
rea $3.50 acres were winter killed r,