Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-10-27
KANSAS BIG CROPS.
The Wheat Product Over Fifty -elght Mil
lion Bushels-Oats and Corn Follow


lion Bushels-Oats and Corn Follow
Secretary Mohler of the state board
of agriculture has made an interesting
report for October, in which he deals
with the conditions and value Of the
wheat, oats and corn crop and the pros
poets for the ensuing year. Among
other things Mr.. Mohler says:
The correspondents of this board
place the average yield per acre OF win
ter wheat OF Kansas by belts as follow, S
based upon yields reported by thresh-
ers: For the eastern belt, thirty-nine
counties, 1864 bushels per acre; for the
central belt, thirty-five counties, 1902
bushels; for the western belt, thirty
two counties, 14.6 bushels The wheat
area as returned by assessors from the
eastern belt is 8l5. 430 acres. The aver
age yield per acre was 1854 bushels,
giving a winter wheat product for the
eastern belt of 1850, 576 bushels. The
average yield per acre for the central
belt applied to an erea Of 2, 422, 1853
acres, gives total winter wheat pro-
duct of this belt of 1859, a2l bushels.
The average yield per acre of winter
wheat, applied to an area Of "a, 400 acres
gives total winter wheat product for
the western belt of 5, 029, 954 bushels. (In
this belt there is large acreage of
spring wheat.
In the entire state, we have a total
winter product of Sc. 1876, $50 bushels and
according to the estimates of our cor
respondents the yield of spring wheat
is 2, 202, $50 bushels. making total ag-
gregate wheat product for the state,
winter and spring, of IS, 399, 6l9 bushels.
Oats-The average yield per acre of
oats for the entire state is placed by
our correspondent at 1854 bushels;
making total oats product for the
state of SO, 668,045 bushels
Corn-It is yet too early to procure
final estimates on the corn crop OF Kan
sas, but the reports Of our correspon-
dents place the probable yield per acre
OF this cereal for the entire state at
1872 bushels. This average yield per
acre on an area OF 5,209, 234 acres would
give total corn product for the state
Of 145, 1875, 918 bushels. - ~
Summary of conditions. Irish pota-
toes IS per cent, sweet potatoes Sc per
cent, sorghum, 96 per cent broom corn
90 per cent and millet 80 per cent.
Condition of ground for wheat SOW
ing during September is reported
throughout the state with but few ex-
captions as too dry. The eastern por-
tion of the state seems to have suffered
more from drought during this month
than the central portion, Many cQun-
ties in southeastern Kansas report
practically no rain for nearly two
acknowledgements and Superintendent
the ground SO dry that it was impossl-
BILE TO pillow,
The, only counties in the state that
report the condition of the ground
good or fairly good are Jewell, Mitchell,
Osborne, Pratt and Rocks, all except
Pratt in the northwest portion of the
central belt. Even in these counties
the ground was quite dry until the mid
die of september. In consequence OF
this extreme drought wheat sowing has
been retarded everywhere in the state.
In the eastern belt correspondents re-
port only q per cent of the area it is
proposed to plant, as sown at
the date Of the report, in
the central belt 26 per cent and
in the western belt IL per cent. In
nearly all portions of the state, how
ever, rains fell the last week in Sep
TENDER and with ground in good condi-
ton throughout October. an acreage
equal to that of last year will probably
be sown in most OF the counties of the
state.
Live Stock-There is no prevailing
disease reported in live stock, except
that in several counties in eastern Kan
sas, good many cases of hog cholera
are reported. The counties reporting
hog cholera are Allen, Coffey. Jeffer-
son, Miami. Neosho and Shawnee. All
other counties report stock of all kinds
in excellent health and in good condi-