The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
KANSAS CROP REPORT,
Isusd BY 1.-THE ssCrstaryO of the State sOard of Az
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Isusd by 1.-THE Secretary of the State Board of AZ
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TOPEKA, KaS., Sept. 6.-Hon. N.
Mohler, secretary of the state board OF
agriculture, this evening issued the
following important report on the con-
dition of the Kansas corn crop. The
questions submitted were:
First. What proportion of area
planted will be harvested?
Second. What is the estimated
product per acre of corn on acres har-
vested?
Third. Does listed corn show any
better results than that put in with
planter, ii SO what per cent?
Nearly 600 correspondents, repre-
Senting about every county in the state,
have responded to the above questions
and have developed the following facts
in regard to this important crop:
First-That of the total area planted
to corn in our state "A per cent is con-
sidered worth harvesting, that the
eastern portion of the state as far west
in the north tier of counties as Repub-
lie county and east of. a line bearing
eastward to ChautauQua county on the
south line of the state the corn AGRA
will nearly all be harvested and with
the exception of a few counties will be
a full average crop and in some coun-
dotte is the highest, reporting an
average yield of So! bushels per acre
and nearly all the counties north of the
Kansas river within the subscribed limit
report from 40 to so bushels per
acre. Many counties south of the Kan
sas river also report a high average
down to the second tier of counties
from the south line of the state, these
counties with the exception of Chau-
tauqua and Elk report considerable
lower average. A belt of territory
from Jewel and Smith counties on the
north stretching southwark and bear
ing eastward to the south line of the
state with Ellsworth county as a CEN
tire seems to be the worst burned dis
trict in the state. Ellsworth county
reports only 6 per cent of the area
planted to corn worth harvesting and
the average yield OF the
small acreage only nine bushels
per acre. Many of the counties adj
joining Ellsworth are in a condition
not much better. Further south and
further north there are belts of terri
tory extending usually east and
west where the corn will make fairly
good yield, while the intervening dis
tricts are about total failure. West
of this great central belt in which
the corn is generally ruin
ed there are in nearly all the
there is some good corn with large in
tervening belts in which there is no
corn. Even Hamilton county, cOun-
ty bordering on the Colorado line in the
southwest, has some good corn, a sam
pie of which was brought to this Office
a few days ago. The north half of all
the counties in the north tier and the
south half of the second tier
have fairly good corn while the inter-
vening belt over thirty miles in width
has but little. These large districts of
territory in which the corn is practi-
cally failure brings the average yield
and the aggregate corn product Of the
state considerably lower than was gen.
orally supposed it would be. The aY-
erage yield per acre on the acreage
worth harvesting is estimated at
| twenty-eight bushels. The total area
planted to corn i'll the spring as shown
by assessors returns is 500, COZ acres,
seVenty-foIr per cent OF this or 5, 49,
$50 acres is reported rs worth harvest
ing. The estimated average yield per
acre on this gives total corn product
for the state of IA, All $40 bushels
which is almost double the product of
last year and Is, All ,0G0 bushels more
than the product of 1886, but is less by
4,645, 2S4 bushels than the product of
1884, which was the largest in the his
tory of our state, while the eastern
| dition agriculturally. The feature of
the corn crop in the central and west
ern counties of the state bears heavily
| on the farmers. Many. however, have
| had an excellent crop of wheat
| and a fair crop of oats and ali will have
an abundance of feed for stock in corn
| fodder, millet, sorghum and hay, so
| that the situation is an improvement
| on that OF last year. Our correspond
ents give the lister a very strong en-
| dorsement, but few counties report
| no difference. A very few correspond
ents pronounce against it, but the ag-
gregate sentiment of our correspond
/ entS say that this year twenty per cent
more corn was grown to the acre where
corn was listed than when put i'll with
| the planter.
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