The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-09-12
FRESH FROM THE WIRES
Last Year Rifing the United States
Mails-A Mob Attacks the American
Ministarss Rasidance

Kansas Corn In Better Condition than
Last Year Rifing the United States
Mails-A Mob Attacks the American
Minister'S Residence.
Topeka kan speciall
The Hon. Martin Mohler, Secretary of
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.. Mothers 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 win be sufficient crops harvested TO supply
the wants OF the settlers. For the August report
we have asked our correspondent for information
only in relation 10 corn. The questions submit
planted will be harvested2 second, what is
the estimated product per acre OF corn on the
acreage harvested? Third, does listed corn
show any better results than that put in with
planter? IL So what per cent? Nearly G0J cor
respondents, representing ABOUT every county in
the State, have responded 70 the above ques-
Uons and nave developed the following facts in
regard 10 this important crop
First, that OF the total area planted 20 corn in
our State "A per cent is considered worth har-
vesting that in the cas- ern portion Of the State
far west in the north tier OF the counties
Republic County an east OF q line bearing east
ward to Chautauqua County. on the south line
of the State, the area Will nearly all be har
vested, and, with the exc sptlon OF Il few coun-
ties, will be n full average crop. In some coun-
tieo the yield viii be much above an average Of
9519 bushels per acre. and nearly all the counties
north Of the Kansas River, within the prescribed
limits, report from forty TO fifty bushels per
acre. Many counties south OF the Kansas River
also report Il high average down TO the sec
ond tier OF counties from the south Inc OF
the State. These counties, with the eXcep-
tion Of Chautauqua and Elk, report n consid-
erably lower average. A belt OF territory
from Jewell and Smith Counties on the
north stretching southwark and bearing east
ward 10 the south line OF the State, with Els
worth County as center, seems 70 be the
worst burned district in the State. West of
tn proat central belt in which the corn Is gem
orally raised, there are in nearly all the coun-
ties belts OF rritory in which there is some
good corn, with large intervening belts in which
there lie corn. Even Hamilton County-a
county bordering on the Colorado line in the
southwest-has good corn, Il sample OF which
was brought in few days ago. The north half
OF oil tho counties in the north tier and the
south h II Of the second tier have fairly good
corn, while tho intervening belt, over thirty
miles in width, has but little. The average
yield pr acre on the acreage worth harvesting
is estimated at twenty-eight bushels.
The total area planted 70 corn in the spring
as shown by assessors returns, is $4,000 acres
"A per cent. OF this ISL $50 acres. is reported
as worth harvesting. The estimated average
yield per acre e. this gives q total corn produ Z
for the State of ,s4) bushels. which is al
most double the product o. last year and lJ,il1-
600 bushels more than the product OF 1856 but
is less by 60 49, 80 bushels than the product of
1854, which was the greatest in the history OF
Kansas. Many, however. have had an exc lenf
crop Of wheat and fair crop of oats, ana all
will have abundance Of feed for stock in
corn fodder. millet, sorghum and hay, so that
the situation is an improvement on that OF last