Wichita eagle., 1888-09-07
The Yield Will be Double That
of Last Year and Larger
Than in 1855.
The Average Yield is About Twenty-Eight
Bushels-Districts Where Failure Ex-
lists More Than RecOmpensed
By the Large Yield of Other Cereals
The Opening of the State Campaign
at Lawrence Attended by $4,000
People-Missouri's Crop
Report

TOPEKA, Sept. b.-HOn. NJ. moore. Secre-
| tary of the state board of agriculture, this
evening issued the following important re-
port on the condition of the Kansas corn
crop:
For the August report, we have asked
our correspondents for information only in
relation to corn. The questions submitted
We're: First, what proportion of the area
planted will be harvested; second, what is
the estimated product per acre of the num-
Der of acres harvested; third, does listed
corn show any better results than that put
in with the planter; if so what per cent
Nearly all correspondents responded to the
above questions and have developed the
following facts in regard to this important
crop: First, that of the total acreage
planted to corn in our state "a per cent is
considered worth harvesting; that the east
ern portion of the state as far west in the
north tier of counties as Republic county,
and east of a line bearing eastward to
| Chautauqua county on the south line OF
the state the corn acreage Will nearly all
be harvested and with the exception a few
counties will yield full average The
crop in some counties is much over an
average. Wyandotte is the highest, re-
porting an average yield of fifty
three a and half 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 high average down to the
second tier of counties from the south line
of the state boundaries, with the excep-
ton of Chautauqua and Elk which report
a considerable lower average. n belt of
territory from Jewell and Smith counties
on the north and stretching southwark
and bearing eastward to the south line OF
the state with Ellsworth county as center
seems to be the worst burned district in
the state. Ellsworth county reports only
per cent of the average planted to corn
worth harvesting and the average yield OF
the small acreage nine bushels per acre.
Many of the counties adjoining Ellsworth
are in condition not much better. Fur
ther south and further north there are belts
of territory extending usually east and west
where the corn will make fairly good
yield, while the intervening districts are
about total failure. West of the great
central belt in which the corn is generally
ruined there are in nearly all the counties
belts of territory in which there is some
good corn with large intervening belts in
which there is no corn. Even Hamilton
county, a county bordering on the Colo
RADIO line in the southwest. has some good
corn a sample of which was brought to
this office a few days ago. The north half
Of all the counties III the north tier and
the south half of the second tier, have
fairly gaod corn while the intervening
belt over thirty miles in width has but
little These large districts of territory
in which the corn is practically failure
brings the average yield and the aggregate
| corn product of the state considerably
less than it was generally supposed IL
would be- The average yield per acre on
the average worth harvesting is estimated
at twenty eight bushels. The total acre
age planted to corn in the spring was
S.691 on acres; "A per cent OF this, or
5,117, 7l9 acres is reported as worth har-
veStng. The estimated average yield per
acre on this gives total corn production
for the state OF IA. AZ $40 bushels, which
is about double the product of last year
and Il All 600 bushels more than the pro-
duct of 1885, but is less by AZ, 452, $40 bush
els than the product of 1884. which was
the largest in the history of our state.
While the eastern portion of the
state is in excellent condition agricultur-
ally, the failure of the corn crop in
the central and western counties OF the
state bears heavily on the farmers. Many,
however, have had an excellent crop of
wheat and fair crop of oats, and all 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 correspondents give
the lister very strong endorsement. a
few counties report no difference: a very
few correspondents pronounce against II,
but the aggregate sentiment OF our cor
respondents say that this year per cent
more corn was grown to the acre where
corn was listed than where put in with the
planter.
REPUBLICAN MEETING AT LAW