Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-18
KANSAS CROPS.


An Onlclal Report of tho Union Pacific
Railway Shows n satisfactory COndl-
tiOn.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, June 13.-An ex-
haustivc report of crop conditions in ev-
cry county of Kansas has been prepared
by Mr.. Clinton Franklin, of the Union
Pacific railway, and in the procurement
of the data he employed the services OF
several hundred thoroughly competent
correspondents whose work is wholly
the result of personal Investigations
undertaken for the sole purpose of pre-
-uting an absolutely accurate state
ment of existing conditions.
The tabulated statement shows q
notable increase in acreage. In 1891
the acreage under cultivation was IT,
517,771 acres and this year the total has
risen to 1s,O56, ITO acres.
The increase is especially remarkable
in the western part Of the state. There
crop conditions are extraordinarily
good, the snow having remained on the
ground during the winter and tho
spring season having been wet.
In the central part of the state the
crop prospects are also very good. but
/ in the eastern and southeastern sections
they do not appear to be up to the av-
erage.
On the basis of existing conditions,
Kansas will this year raise nearly 5,OOO,-
900 bushels more wheat than 1t did in
1891. The winter wheat acreage Of
8,5s2, 0O6 acres of last year is increased
by about 600, 900 acres, and tho indica-
lions are that 1000, 900 more bushels OF
winter wheat will be raised. The yield
of winter wheat last year was So, 17O,094
bushels.
The acreage of spring wheat has
doubled. In 1891 it was 49, 22 acres;
this year it is SOL COS. The estimate OF
the yield is 1897, 1853 bushels, as against
2,S79, 054 for 1891.
The acreage devoted to corn has been
increased by 2S5, 900 acres, but the esti-
mate as to the yield is not put forward
with the same certainty which attaches
to the other estimates. So many condi-
tions may intervene that the estimate
is to be accepted only as q forecast
based on factors now existing.
The crop is generally backward and
the probable yield may be deere ascd by
hot winds later on, or it may be in
creased by the continuance of favorable
conditions. On the present basis the
yield will very nearly approach that OF
1891. Then it reached the enormous to-
tai of $50, 1868, 091 bushels. The estimate
places the yield for 1892 at 1871, S47,7 25
bushels.
There will be an increase of over
100000 bushels in the yield OF oats.
The acreage has been increased by 267,-
900 acres. Last year the yield was 80
OO4. 44S bushels, and the present condi-
tions indicate that the yield this year
will be 4S, 061, 100 bushels.
A greatly decreased acreage was
sown in rye this year, the statement
showing a reduction of $4,000 acres.
The decrease in yield is estimated at
s25, 900 bushels. Last year Kansas har-
vested 5,44S, $50 bushels.
Barley shows a largely increased
acreage, but n somewhat diminished
yield. Very nearly three times more
ground was sown to barley than in
1891, and yet the crop will fall short OF
that of last year by over 5000 bushels.
Then 36, 4s4 acres were sown and yield
ed 1.OOG, $50 bushels; this year but 947,-
sGs bushels are to be expected from
11s, 421 acres.
Very nearly the same absolute de-
crease is indicated in the flax crop, but
the decrease disappears when acreages
are taken into comparison. In 1891
sss, 1s5 acres yielded 2,O40,O55 bushels
of fax. 1t is estimated that the 324, 6l3
acres sown to fax this year will yield
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