The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
KANSAS CROPS AGAIN.

From the Kansas Farmer.
The world at large seems greatly in.
! terested in the exact productions of Kan.
sas crops for 1891. 1t appears from the
general crop reports that Kansas has the
| best all-round prospect of any of the
! states, and as a consequence various re.
| ports and estimates have been made
! both from official and unofficial sources,
yet no two agree exactly.
| The Kansas City Times of last Sun
day, the 10Th inst, published report
which may be accepted as substantially
and approximately correct. The Times
| report occupies nearly page of that
| paper, and in its Introductory summary
states that "a short time ago a cele-
brated Chicago crop expert travelled
throughout the state of Kansas and sent
back home a sort of serial story of
| calamity, ending by estimating the yield
of wheat at sc, 100000 bushels. This, OF
course, came somewhat in the ma
ture Of shock alike to the wheat mar
ket, owners of mortgages and
wholesale dealers trading in the state.
A little while after this wise man had re-
turned to Chicago a Kansas banker,
prominently connected with large inter
ests in the state. came to our city and in
an interview said to a reporter for the
Times that Kansas could safely be set
down to yield 100000 bushels OF
wheat-a difference between experts OF
just 3S,000,0 900 bushels, or as large as
the entire crop of the state last year.
Both estimates have been given wide
circulation.
These two guesses were followed By
the July report of the Kansas state
board of agriculture, which claimed
that the official figures were exactly
81. 307, 800 bushels 1t is. of course, an
impOssibility TO calculate the actual
yield of any crop, yet the fact that the
secretary of the Kansas state board Of
agriculture was unfortunate enough to
estimate the wheat crop last year at
p 900. 600 bushels when probably 81
000, 600 bushels were produced, has
caused the unlimited confidence which
has heretofore been repoSed by the
members of the grain trade in that
necessary functionary TO become slight
ly but no doubt ouly temporarily shaken.
The report of the secretary of the
Kansas state board of agriculture was
in turn followed by the views of the
president of the Farmers Alliance. which
are thus embodied in special dispatch
TO the Times from Topeka under date Of
the 10th INST
President Frank McGrath of the
/ Farmers Alliance SAYS that the estimates
/ Of Secretary Mohler that the wheat crop
of Kansas would be about 81 coo. 0OO
bushels are altogether too high. From
reports received by him from nearly
every county IN the state he estimates
that the yield will not exceed 20, 600. 00O
and possibly not more than $4,000. 600.
! The counties which have hitherto pro-
du"ed the largest crop have. according
10 him, suffered partial failure this year.
He believes, however. that the corn crop
Will be unusually large.
with view OF furnishing its readers
with an approximately correct statement
of III present condition of the agricultu-
raj classes of Kansas. the Times this
morning publishes a resume of full re-
ports received from every county In the
state. The information presented below
is not the opinion Of any one man or any
one class of men, but a compilation made
up from mere than 400 replies TO letters
and kilograms sent out by the r. q. Dun
mercantile agency and the Times.
1.-The acreage of wheat IN Kansas as
estimated from these replies Is ), $50, 600
and tue probable yield will be 59,473, 900