The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-11
KANSAS CROPS.
Secretary Coburn Issues His Quarterly
Agricultural Report.

Secretary 0ODuEn issues his XuaEEEEly
Agricultural Report
The quarterly report OF Secretary Co
burn, of The department of agriculture
for the quarter which ended 81 D EN- ber
80 has been issued
The book contains 207 pages OF
tables and statistics covering almost
every subject connected with agricul-
tural and stock operations in Kansas
and is one of the most mprehensive
and valuable publications yet issued
from this department The acreage
and product of all the field crops Of
the state for the year 1894 are given
by counties together with the num-
Der Of the various kinds of live stock
An interesting article at this time is
one relating to feeding wheat to farm
animals, its practice in Kansas and it's
bearing upon agriculture and stock
raising, as derived from 400 CORE
spOndents-
OF the "A, s27, 523 bushels of winter
and spring wheat raised in Kansas in
1898. there has been used as feed for
farm animals, 4. 059. 323 bushels. or
16- per cent Cowley and Sumner
counties leading, with 2O7, O44 and
4o7, COZ bushels respectively.
When fed whole perhaps more es-
peciaily to hogs), 25 per cent of it
passes the animals unmasticated, and,
hence, undigested and unassimilated
"a shameful waste. The average of
the estimates made by eighty-One
correspond in twenty counties is
that a bove 80 per cent is voided with
out mastication; twelve cOrrespOn-
dents, representing five counties,
put it at so per cent or above, and
a few others name a higher figure,
while forty, reporting from twelve
counties, average at 10 per cent
Three-fourths of those reporting,
represent. ng fifty counties, state that
pound for pound, wheat is superior to
corn for fattening hogs (even with
the One-fOurth unmasticated) by
seven to thirty-five per cent; the av-
erage of these indicating superiority
over corn of sixteen per cent, while
the average of the other one fourth
Of the reports, represen ting twenty
six counties. indicate that it is con-
sidered of less worth than corn by
twelve per cent
To the question as to how much
live pork may be expected as a fair
return per bushel of wheat fed to
hogs, the average of all the answers
is eleven pounds, and the variations
from seven pounds in single in
stance, to as much as twenty pounds
in one other; but nearly all put their
figures at or aboxe ten pounds.
The average of all the reports as to
the cost of wheat, raised and in the
bin. Including per cent interest on
the value OF lana upon Wnlcn raised
also wear and tear of equipment,
with different yields, shows thus:
Yield of 10 bushels per acre, SO =
cents bushel.
Yield of IS bushels per acre, 4s
cents per bushel
Yield of 90 bushels per acre, IS As
cents per bushel-
Yield of p bushels per acre, 81
cents per busnel-
Yield of 80 bushels per acre, ~
cents per bushel
Yield Of IS bushels per acre. 20
cents per bushel-
Responses from eighty Eve counties
having all the wheat raised except
1s1, 514 bushels, received within tie
last ten days of Septembe this year,
to inquiries sent to correspondents,
asking their estimates on the per-
centage Of the wheat crop of 1924,
which will be fed to farm animals,
represent it as 3o-4 per cent of the
wheat IN those counties, a total of
8, 624, 953 bushels. or 10 per cent
a, 465, 600 bushels) more than the en-
tire previous years crop SO used