Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1888-09-13
FRESH FROM THE WIRES
A BUDGET OF VALUABLE AND INTER
EsTING INFORMATION.

Kansas Corn In Better Condition than
Last Year - Rihing the United States
Mails-A Mob Attacks the American
Minister'S Residence.
Topeka (Kan.) speciall
The Hon. Martin Mohler, Secretary or
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, has
submitted his report for the month OF
August In view Of the fact that ire
sponsible reports have been circulated as
to the total failure of crops in Western
Kansas and of consequent alarming ex-
odus from that section of the State, this
report of Mr. Mohler's will be read with
an unusual degree of interest. He says:
While crops have been greatly damaged in
certain localities In Middle and Western Kansas
there will be sufficient crops harvested TO supply
the wants OF the settlers. For the Augustreport
we have asked our correspondents Tor Information
only in relation to corn. The questions submit
ted wsre: First, what proportion OF the area
planted will be harvestedp Second, what is
the estimated product per acre OF d corn on ' 6ne
she- sssy better 5sspts thSp fhs sa1 ' e1 i cor
respondents representing ABOUT every county in
the State have RESPONDED TO the above g1es -,
regard TO this important crop:
Fi:st that of the total area planted TO corn IN
our State IA per cent. is considered worth mar
vesting that In the eas ern portion Oh Ine sva.o,
as far west in the north tier OF the counties as
Republic County an east OF a line bearing east
ward to ChaItauqua County. on tho SCUM line
OF the State, the area viii nearly oil DO mar
vested and with the exception OF Few coun-
ties will be n full average crop. In some coun-
ties the yield will be much above an average OF
2j2 bushels por acre, aud nearly all tine couhtles
north Of the Kansas River, within the prescribed
limits report from forty TO nifty busheis per
| acre. Many counties south OF the Kansas RIVER
| also report u high average down 70 the sec
| ond tier of counties from the south Inc OF
| the state. These counties, Win inc eAcep-
| tion of Chautauqua and Elk, report consid-
| erably lower average. A belt Of territory
| from Jewell and Smith Counties ON the
north, stretching southward ana bearing east
| ward to the south line OF the state, with els
| worth County as a center, seems 70 De the
| worst burned district in the State. West OF
tn great central belt, in which the corn IS gem
| erallY raised there are in nearly all the coun-
ties belts of rritory in which there Is some
| good corn with large intervening belts IN when
| there Is no corn. Even Hamilton County.h
county bordering ON the COLORADO line III tne
| southwest-has good corn sample OF Wnich
| was brought in n few days ago. The norm nali
| of all tho counties in the north tier ana tue
south II II of the second tier have talriy gooo
| corn while the intervening belt, over thirty
miles in width, has but little. The average
yield per acre on the acreage worth harvesting
is estimated at twenty-eight bushels
The total urea planted TO corn in the spring
as shown by as sesso returns, is G97O,W0 acres
"A per cent of this or 7sO acres, is reporJe'
as worth harvesting The estimated average
yield per acre on this gives total corn produc
for the State of 14I 427 $40 bushels, which Is al
| most double the product OF last year ana lo4li,
600 bushels more than the product OF 1880, Du
is less by 49, 451 $40 bushels than the product o
1884 which was the greatest in the histoty o
Kansas. Many, however have had an exc Hen
, | crop OF wheat and fair crop OF oats, ana III
will have abundance OF feed Tor STOCK y
! corn fodder millet, sorghum and hay, SO Ina
I the situation is I'm improvement on that OF las
|