The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1885-06-12
The WORST EVER KNOWN.
The Failure Of the K.usas wheat crop n

The Failure Of the Kansas Wnsss Crop Re-
ported ~ Conplsts.
TOPEKA, KAN, June 5.-The Secretary
of the State Board Of Agriculture said yes
terday that this would b the worst failure
In wheat that Kansas has ever experienced
There was no use in Disgusting the
fact that In several localities farmers
would not get their seed. A large area
of wheat which at the last report was con
sidered promising was now either beinl
plowed up or cattle had been turned in upon
il. Mr.. Branen, manager of the largest mill
IN the city, said that he had Just returned
from tour of wheat districts, and that Ia
his 0ptnien the entire harvest would not ex-
coed Is, OK, 900 bushels Last evening the
Secretary gave out the following statement:
The injury to the wheat crop from the Sc
verify OF the winter, insect depredations
and other causes Is now found to be much
greater than appearances indicated one
month ago. Many fields which at the date
of our last report gave promise of fair
yield, now have more cheat than wheat, and
will yet be plOughed up and seeded tn mil
let OF the 1913, 29s acres sown to winter
wheat in the State in the fall of 1864, at
least forty per cent or 645,319 acres
have been abandoned and the ground
seeded to spring crops and the work of de-
struction continues. The present outlook
clearly indicates that the harvest this year
will prove the most disastrous failure known
in the history of wheat culture in the State,
and warrants the belief that the total pro-
duct will be required for seed and bread
within the State during the year. From .
careful compilation of the information re-
ceived at this Office the condition, May 80,
of the area then remaining-967,9 79 acres
is found to be Sc per cent, as compared
with the condition one year ago-a loss of
% per cent. from the condition shown by
the report of this board April 80. l there
fore estimate that the product Of wheat i'm
the State this year can not exceed l2,O00,-
600 bushels small fraction I'm ex-
cess of IS per cent. of the product
Of last years harvest and about SO per cent
of the average annual product for the last
five years. The spring wheat in the State
is found to be about equal to that sOwn in
the spring of 1884. The condition has i'm
proved since the date of our April report.
and as compared with the condition one
year ago, is 1Ol.56 per cent which, with
favorable weather until harvest, would in
dictate a product of 1,39O,592 bushels, a
promised increase over last year of 81, 4S2
bushels. The estimated acreage of corn 10
1902, S3S acres, an increase of 356, $50 acres
over the crop of 1884. The condition as
compared with last year is "a per cent.
The probable product is 1876. 7l2, geo bushels,
shortage of almost 30,00O,000 bushels as
compared with the crop of 1884. The general
increase of the Oat crop throughout the State
gives an increase In area as compared
with last year, of 72, 725 acres, which with
the improvement in con 1tion reported, in
dicates product of 33.924,O0 bushels, an
increase of 1887, 900 over the yield of last
harvest. No material change since our
April report has occurred in rye, though
there has been falling off in acreage as
compared with last year of about twenty
eight per cent, and i'm condition of ten
Reports indicate large crop of all kinds of
fruit except peaches in all sections of the
State having trees, bushes and vines old
enough to bear. The prospect is good for
an abundant peach crop in the south central
portion of the State. In other sections the
crop is failure"