The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
THE CROP CONDITION.
June Not Altogether Favorable for Grow
ing Cereals.

TOPEKA, Kan, July 7.-Secretary Mob
1er, of the state board of agriculture, has
ISSUED the following monthly crop report:
Correspondents of this board, numbe
ing about five hundred, and representing
a04 of the 106 counties OF the state. indicate
that the month of June has been only IN a
degree favorable to growing crops Inc
oats, spring wheat and tame grasses IN all
sections of the state suffered considerably
for want of rainfall. while corn continued
to grow nicely and reached the lst OF
July generally in a promising condition.
Winter notwithstanding to the estl-
mates Of ovr correspondents 80 per cent OF
the area sown- to wheat in the fall OF 1889
was harvested this year, making total
acreage of winter wheat harvested OF l.
COS, ,230 acres, and the average product of
winter wheat per adre Is estimated at four
teen bushels, which makes the total WIN
ter wheat product of Kansas this year D.
1920 bushels. In thirty counties in
eastern Kansas the average yield per acre
ranges from seventeen to twenty bushsls.
The low average in the central and west
ern counties OF the state brings the general
average lower to fourteen bushels.
Spring wheat-The total area of spring
wheat IN Kansas this year is estimated by
correspondents at a, $50 acres and the
average yield per acre at Il bushels, max
ing total spring wheat product Of l,263-
229 bushels and the aggregate product OF
winter and spring wheat according to this
estimate is %. 736 40 bushels. The quality
OF the wheat is reported excellent and with
but few exceptions will grade No. 2.
Oats for the most part throughout the
state are quite short and correspondents
say viii make about three-ffths to full
average crop.
Corn generally thorough the
state is reported in good
condition, though in many places
rain is needed, there being in nearly all
portions Of the state n light rainfall during
the month. Farmers have had an excel
lent opportunity to keep their corn fields
clean of weeds and in all cases where the
farmers have done 50, the corn is in good
condition and promises a good average
crop. Corn. compared with full average
condition, 90; oats, compared with full aver
age condition, 90; broom corn IS; flax 80;
tame grasses 81; millet 50; potatoes 10;
prairie grass s5; apples, prospect OF an av-
erage crop, y; peaches, prospect OF an av-
erage crop, "a.
Generally throughout the state the
month of June was remarkable for light
rainfall and extreme hot weather the last
week. In some sections abundant rains
fell the latter part Of the month. On the
whole the weather was favorable for ma
turing and harvesting wheat, and this i'm
portant crop has been or is now being
stacked in excellent condition. Spring
wheat, oats, barley and tame grasses have
suffered most from droUth, while corn,
sorghum, broom corn and other growing
crops except in a few western counties
are still in good condition and
promise abundant yields. Seven counties
report Hessian-hy. Eight report chinch-
bugs, though doing but little damage as
yet. In some of the western counties con-
ditions are very discouraging. Also in
some eastern counties.
Marshall county is the most noted re
porting a discouraging condition of things.
lStreams are drying up and stock water is
becoming scarce and difficult to get. VI ith
Ethe exception of a dozen or fifteen counties
in the west, July seems to be in a fairly
satisfactory condition with reference to
1he crop outlook.