Thomas County cat., 1890-08-21
THE KANSAS FARMERS coNDI-
TION.

THE KANSAS FARMERS coNpI-
TlON.
The condition Of corn throughout
the state renders it Eow possible to
make rational estimate of the size
OF the crop this year. Secretary
Mohler estimates, on basis Of reports
from over 500 correspondents, that the
crop will approximate $4,000, 900 bush
els-sonettsde over ons-quarter Of last
years crop.
This enables US to makea ccmpari-
son OF the value of the crops Of 1889
and 1890 in the three staple products,
wheat, corn and oats.
In 1889 the corn amounted to 273,.
800, 900 bushels. At an average price Of
Is cents the whole crop. if sold would
have realized $41.OOO,O0O. This year
with crop OF 100000 bushels, at
80 cents a bushel, the new crop alone
not including surplus still in farmers
hands of about 75,O0O, 900 bushels
yield S37, 500, coo; the value of the crop
of 1890 when gathered being, thsre-
fore, probably $s,50O, 900 less than that
of 1889.
The wheat crop Of 1889, winter
and spring, was 36,OO0,OOO bushels,
worth, at an average price OF 55 cents.
S19,SOO,OOO. The crop of 1890 is 3d.
600, 900 bushels, of unprecedented ex-
cellence, worth, at 80 cents a bushels,
$40, 100000; the value of this years
wheat being. therefore, 100000 great
er than that of last year.
The oats crop of 1889 was $4,000, 600
bushels, worth, at 16 cents bushel,
about S7,6OO,O0O. Tho 1890 crop ID
about 100000 bushels, worth, at 33
cents bushel, S10,5O0,000; the value Of
this years oat being about S3.OO0,OOO
greater than last years.
The total value of these three crops
last year was, therefore, about $6S, ,3O0,-
900; while this year the same crops are
worth $6S, 100000 difference in fav-
or of 1890 of 100000.
A great portion of last years corn
still in the farmers hands, morever will
participate in the advance in price. In
March there were 117,S4S,OOO bushels
in farmers hands in this state. 1t is a
low estimate to say that there are at
present 100000 bushels-or corn
nearly equal in value to the entire crop
Of last year at the time of gathering,
and equal to the entire value of the
crop of 1890. Kansas farmers will
have this fall s75,OOO,OOO worth of corn.
In March, 1890, there was in Kan
sas farmers hands nearly three times
as much corn as in the same month of
1887, seven times as much as in 1888,
and over twice as much as in 1889.
In March, 1890, there were still about
II, 900, 900 bushels of wheat in farmers
hand, and it is probable that $5,OOO.OOO
worth of wheat is still unsold.
From these statements it is evident
hat the farmers of Kansas are in much
better "shape" than one year ago, apart
rom the possibility that in the mean
lime they have redeemed any of their
from mortgage.
And this suggest another direction of
inquiry. The Capital was informed
ew days ago by gentleman just re-
;urned from trip through the state as
agent of a prominent loan company,
hat the amount of farm loans paid off in
he last seven months exceed. 80 far as
lis company books showed, that OF the
;ame period in any recent year. The
oan companies are having difficulty
lot with farmers but with owners of city
property. The heavy mortgage indebt-
less of Kansas is not on farms, but on
OTIS, residences and business blocks.
The register of deeds of Mcpherson
ounty began last February to make an
ccount every day for his own informa-
ion of the farm mortgages released,
nd recently said that they amounted
o more than 81, 900 day. Not week
asses but the Capital reads paragraphs
Ike this one from the Stafford County
Jews in exchange from every part OF
he state:
One of the substantial evidences that
bis county is regaining her equilibrium
I prosperity is the fact that taxes for
his year are being paid into the treas
~ much better than ever before in the
istory of the county. The delinquent
Ak list, SO large for the past two year is