The Iola register., 1895-09-20
KANSAS CROPS.
The EnRmous Yield OF Corn-Farmers IN
No Hurry to selI-The Capacity OF the
Railroads VIII Be Fully Taxed TO Mcve
the Crops.

Topeka correspondent 20 the New
York Times the following is taken:
THE great corn crop of 1859 aver
aged 4015 bushels per acre. At that
rate the original acreage reported by
the department bulletin of May 30
would yield $50, ,oc0, eco bushels. In a
few localities-generally 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 $4,000. eco, the cor
servative estimate Of the present corn
crop in Kansas can be placed a q
round 10000. 90 bushels, although the
traffic managers Of some roads insis-
that 1t will reach nearer 40C. 01J, 600.
In all the estimates of prospective
traffic the railroad people use carloads
as the basis. II the following sugges-
tions the same convenient basis -ill lie
used. Aside from the estimated vie-l
of corn, the figures used are from tLe
state agricultural department and
from the best data gathered u Ike
various roads and placed - ne d-s-
posal of the correspondent OF tEe New
York Times These give the prospee-
tive business II Kansas. IT carloads.
about as follows: Wheat. -. O0C oats,
=, 800: corn. 20. OGC; bsriey. goo. rye.
i,6gS: broom corn. 80: fax. : So pv-
tatoes, Irish ~ -5OO; castor Leans. 90
making an aggregate of j"j.21s car
loads For western roads these v-oulG
make up about 20, 76o trains. which
would, if handled by any one road. re-
quire the moving Ct over seveut-
freight trains olt o: KansGs every
twenty-four hours u order 70 move
the business within twelve months
This estimate does not take into ac-
count the products CT nearly 1000 GOC
acres of kaffir and Jerusalem corn,
sorghum, miiler and hungarian. No
account i here taken OF the 100 uOG
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. Al
the horticultural products will have 70
be otherwise provided for; the Well
house orchard alone will weld 40 00C
barrels ofthe finest Eardpicled winter
apples.
II the wheac crop should az be
ground by the Kansas mills and sent
out in the form of -four it would load
1860 cars. and the bran and shorts
would be left for the use of the farm
ers. If the corn crop should all be fed
TO steers. forty bushels per head, the
fat cattle would load so, 600 cars. OF
about Is 500 trains. The corn crop of
1894 was enough 70 turn out 1900 0OC
fat cattle. bu: much of il was very low
grade and sent only seconds instead of
tops to the market On August there
were 300. GOO cattle II the state owe.
half of which VIII be ready for marke.
after four weeks feeding on the new
corn crop The cattlemen estimate
that nearly 2.0OC. OOC more will be
brought into the state before
the snow fieS, most % them
for feeding. 8ParenthetiealIv !; may
of animals slaughtered and sold for
slaughter. also wool, butter. cheese.
poultry. eggs and milk sold ~ amounted
to over $40. coo. 600 in 1859. over So. .OgO,-
600 in 1891, and over s-O.OO0. 0O5 in see.
For 1894 the farm products of Kansas
on tside Of the above articles reached
Sol. 900. OOO-abort half the average
The orchard. market garden etc,
reached nearly g, 600 coo more. This
year the value Of the corn crop alone
at 20 cents per uusleL viii amount q
over S50. 600, OJO, while the value OF
other products especially orchard vii
be tenfold greater than II -s9+.
This enormous business sent out of
the state VIII create q return business
unknown TO Kansas -aiIroaL t-afii- to-
very many vea-s-
''Fron their agents and from ship
pers all over the state the railway or
cials have irforma-ion 20 rhe effect
that the present crops are not going &c
be marketed with that abandon SO
characteristic T former years. espe-
cially in lss". At leas: > per cent Of
the wheat, rye and barley viii be held
for home coLsr,Tl DtioE. = large por-
tjon of the surplus wheat will be
stored in mills fo- their future use and
in elevators for better markets while
several million bushels viii be care
fully garnereG by the farmers 70 await
their pleasure uev. experience for
the ordina-v Kansas wheat grower
.'All traffic mer a-e now agreed that
the indications POINT 20 a retarded
movement OF the present crop. and
that six months viii ind z large per
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 70 tide
over the storms Ct the last few severe
years. Those who have survived the
general wreck brought on bv boom.
have L q very large degree
freed themselves from debt anC are
now il far better condition t. hold
their surplus for better prices than at
anv time in the history Of the state
The question of the prompt and eco
nomic handling of this vast aud sud
denly increased traffic mas been long
and carefully considered b. the rail
road people Ihey are quick 20 Dis
cover the quickening pUise OF com
merce and to ad Just themselves to the
new conditions All summer they have
been preparing for the enormous in
crease in business. the signs OF which
they long ago discovered IL the ve-v