The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1895-09-20
KANSAS CROPS.

Tho Enormous Yield OF C0fm-faruaerB In
No Hurry to Sell-The Capacity OF the
Railroads WIN BE FULLY Taxed To Moso
the Crops.
From a lengthy letter written by
Topeka correspondent to the New
York Times the following is taken:
The great corn crop of 1889 aver
aged 4015 bushels per acre. At that
rate the original acreage reported by
the department bulletin of May 80
would yield 336, O0O, 600 bushels. In a
few localities confined to
few townships-the yield will hardly
reach that average, while there are
many entire counties where the yield
will double that average. Counting
nothing from the forage crop, and
dropping the odd 5000, 600, the con-
sentative estimate of the present corn
crop in Kansas can be placed at a
sound 300, DOC, 900 bushels. although the
traffic managers of some roads insist
that it will reach nearer 400. 600. 600.
In all the estimates of prospective
traffic the railroad people use carloads
as the basis. In the following sugges-
tions the same convenient basis will be
used. Aside from the estimated yield
of corn, the figures used are from the
state agricultural department and
from the best data gathered by the
various roads and placed at the dis
posal of the correspondent of the New
York Times. These give the prospec-
tive business in Kansas, in carloads,
about as follows: Wheat, 1900; oats,
$500; corn, 495, 900; barley, 600; rye.
1,69S; broom corn, 5, $40; fax, 9, $50; po-
20 81, \ n
making an aggregate of 595.27S car
loads. For western roads these would
make up about 90, 76O trains, which
would, if handled by any one road, re-
quire the moving of over seventy
freight trains out of Kansas every
twenty-four hours in order to move
the business within twelve months.
''This estimate does not take into &C.
count the products CT nearly 1000, 900
acres of kaffir and Jerusalem corn,
sorghum, millet and hungarian. No
account is here taken of the 500, 900
tons of the finest alfalfa hay ever fed
to animals, nor the seed thereof. The
items of sweet potatoes, tobacco, gar
den truck, eggs. poultry, butter, cheese.
etc, are left out of this estimate. All
| the horticultural products will have to
be otherwise provided for; the Well
house orchard alone will yield 14O, 600
barrels of the finest handpicked winter
apples
1t the wheat crop should al1 be
ground by the Kansas mills and sent
out in the form of aour it would load
1900 cars, and the bran and shorts
| would be left for the use of the farm
| ., ~, Ill r. e.,
to steers, forty bushels per head, the
fat cattle would load ;375, 900 cars, or
about Is, 500 trains. The corn crop OF
1894 was enough to turn out 1900, DOC
fat cattle, but much of it was very low
grade aud sent only seconds instead OF
tops to the market. On August 4 there
were s, 800, OO0 cattle in the state, over
half of which will be readyfor market
after four weeks feeding on the new
corn crop. The 'cattlemen estimate
that nearly 2.0oO.O 900 more will be
brought into the state before
the snow flies, most of them
for feeding. Parenth etically it may
here be stated that the sales
of animals slaughtered and sold for
slaughter. also wool, butter, cheese
poultry, eggs and milk sold," amounted
to over $40 600. 0OO,in 1889. over S45, OOO,.
600 in 1891, and over $50, 600, DOC in 1894.
For 1894 the farm products of Kansas,
on tside of the:above articles, reached
SOL, 000, 0O0-about half the average.
The orchard, market garden, etc.
reached nearly 100000 more. This
year the value of the corn crop alone
at 90 cents per bushel. will amount to
ono L. -
other products, especially orchard, will
be tenfold greater than in 1894.
This enormous business sent out OF
the state will create a return business
unknown to Kansas railroad traffic for
very many years.
''Flrom their agents and from ship
pers all over the state the railway Off
scials have information to the effec,
that the present, crops are not going tC
be marketed with that abandon SO
characteristic in former years, espe
cially in 1889. At least 25 per cent. Of
the wheat, rye and barley will be held
for home consumption. A large por-
ton of the surplus wheat will be
stored in mills for their future use and
| in elevators for better markets, while
several million bushels will be care
fully garnered by the farmers to await
their pleasure-a new experience for
the ordinary Kansas wheat grower.
-Au traffic men are now agreed that
the indications point to retarded
movement OF the present crop. and
that six months will find large per
entage not needed for feeding in the
hands of the original producers There
has also been a radical change in the
financial conditions prevailing among
the farmers who have been able to tide
over the storms of the last few severe
years. Those who have survived the
general wreck brought on by boom
mortgages have in a very large degree
freed themselves from debt, and are
now in far better condition to hold
their surplus for better prices than al
ANY time in the history Of the state.
1.-THE question of the prompt and eco
nomic handling OF this vast and sud.
denly increased traffic has been long
and carefully considered by the rail.
road people They are quick to dis
cover the quickening pulse of com.
merce and to adjust themselves to the
! new conditions ALI summer they have
been preparing for the enormous in
crease in business. the signs OF which
they long ago discovered in the very
atmosphere of Kansas"
WITHOUT AN ADVERTISEMENT.