The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-06
C0BURN'S GOOD NEWS.
Corn In Fine Condition Say
Secretary of Agriculture.
Winter Wheat Yield Now Ac-
curately Figured Out.
Is Something Over 100000 Bush
els-shawnee Nearly at the Foot
of the List in Wheat Produc-
ton.

estimates by it's correspondents in prac-
tically every township of the yields of
wheat, rye, oats, barley, flax and hay,
applied to acreages of each returned by
township assessors is issued by the
Kansas board of agriculture today.
The figures on yields are a concensus
of those made by farmers, millers and
thrashermen, each one especially coun-
| seIed to make none but safe esti-
mates" The effort to ascertain the
facts as to wheat has been even more
than usually painstakings early in the
season and it is believed the results
obtained will very closely correspond
with those developed later when most
Of the thrashing has been done and the
final revision made.
WINTER WHEAT.
The yield of winter wheat for the
state aggregates 20. 258, 449 bushels, an
everage of ga bushels per acre on the
3,19S, 9S3 acres sown; the range being
from practically nothing in uVe or SIX
southwestern counties to %, % and 20
bushels in Brown, Nemaha and Wash
ington counties respectively. A frac-
ton less than IS per cent of the total
product, or q. 1872, 403 bushels, has been
grown in SO counties in each of which
the average is 10 bushels or more per
acre These counties according to their
rank in total product, leading with
Sumner, which has 2,389, 673 bushels, are
| Mcpherson, 1, 726, TAO bushels; Marion,
1,255. $50; Ellsworth, ,131 996; Harvey
003, 120; SedgWick, 81, 1902; Dickinson,
| 920, $50; Saline, $50, $50; Cowley, 6S0,650;
Harper 1920; Brown, 649,796; Mont
| gomery. 631, 740; Ottawa, $50, 446; Mar
shall, 572 $50; Labette, 557, $50; Reno,
| 553, 40; DOniphan. 552. GAO; Mitchell,
| 4S7, 1855; Clay, 415.242; Cherokee, 397 $50;
Washington, 325,825; Smith, 316,320;
| Osborne. 305, 1873; Cloud, 286, 1922; NeOshO.
| 277, 500; Crawford, 248. 495; Atchison,
| 2241 20; ChautauQua, 248, 494; Leaven-
worth. 216,912; Sheridan. 212.o10; John
son, POI, ass: Jewell, 1913. 944; Geary. 1S9.
| 012; Nemaha. 1856 461; Douglas, 182,850;
| Butler, 154, sos; Wilson, 121, 282; Potta-
watomie. 84,24O; Franklin, 1868; Elk,
| 1881; Wabaunsee, 1880; Jefferson, So
1876: Riley, Sc $50; Republic, SO, 825; Wy
| andotte 61,755; COffey, 5l,O36; Chase,
| 81 1913: Bourbon, 1910; Miami, 1880;
| Woodson, 27,659; Greenwood, 27,489;
/ Linn, q 206: Jackson, 20, S16; Lyon, 90,
| GIG: Morris, 1858; Allen, 1893; Shaw
nee, IA, 445; Anderson, 1902; Usage, 49,
325.
In quality four--ffths Of it is reported
medium" or below, while the remain
| der is rated good" and in few in
| stances very good. THE better grades
| are as a rule found in the localities
| having the heavier yields, but not invar
/ iably. In the western and southwestern
! counties the poor quality is due to lack
| of seasOnable moisture to properly de-
velOp the berry, while in the others
| considerable injury was sustained from
! a succession of heavy rains after the
| grain was in shock. In much of the
| territory where the crop 1a1I6d IN ye1eIO
| the failure is reported as not due to
| lack of rainfall alone but to strange
| and unexplained atmospheric cOndi-
| lions, blasting and whitening the plants
| from the tops downward before and at
| the time of heading, in fields that were
| most promising. The estimates indi-
! cate that 35 per cent of the years pro-
| duct will be marketed within the next
| so davs and that where the crop has
| done fairly well this year the acreage
| for next will not be materially dimin-
ished The quantity of wheat on hand
! in March as found by assessors was l.
| 9T3, 958 bushels: one year before it was
| 3,672, 0S3 bushels
SPRING WHEAT.
The land in spring wheat is return
| ed as 1874, O72 acres and it's yield 1,148,-
| 5O4 busheIs-an average of bushels
per acre. The quality. like that of win
! ter wheat, is not high and from the
! same causes. Spring wheat is a min
| or crop in Kansas and is but little sown
| outside the northern counties. In
| most others where reported at all the
acreage is but nominal.
RYE.
Acres, no, PSI; yield, 1,059, 800 bushels;
yield per acre, 9.61 bushels; quality
medium. Largest acreage and product
in Dickinson and Saline counties.
OATS.
With few exceptions both the yield
and quality of oats is reported poor
rust having been the cause. The acre
| age is 1,460, 197 and the yield 10, 1852 SAT
| bushels, or but 1853 bushels per acre
| The largest acreage and total product
SOB 632 bushels-was in Washington
county, and the highest yield per acre
in Wyapdotte and Atchison.
CORN.
In the corn belt of the state, and in
fact generally, the range of condition
&c high the hRinQr
| 81 for the entire acreage, and 40 coun-
ties report it at from 100 to 116 OF
these u, viz: Butler, Chautauqua
Clay, Cloud, Cowley, Elk, Geary, La
| bette, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha and
Washington report ITO, or above. The
present condition for the state as a
whole is an advance of points over
| the promising outlook reported May
| 81, when but IA counties represented a
| condition of 100 or above. Most of the
| 10 days prior to this writing august
| g have constituted a period of intense
| ly hot. drying weather, with but little
| rainfall on corn territory, except in
Norton, Phillips. Smith, Jewell, Repub-
| lie, Washington, Marshall and Mitch
| ell counties. In the southern half of
/ the state most of the early planted
corn is fairly past possible failure but
| in much of the other half the rains
needed at once to insure any consider
| able yield or merchantable corn will
be most anxiously watched for.
BARLEY
Acres. 1902: yield. 851 ,O79 bushels;
| yield per acre, 4.75 bushels. The Iarg-
est PRODUCTS O5 bushels-is in Raw
| Inns county; Graham and Ness have
also more than so, 900 bushels each.
FLAX
Acres, 228.O41; yield, 1,620,127 bushels;
yield per acre. 7.26 bushels Ten coun-
| ties have more than Il, 900 acres, Allen
| leading with 16, 734 acres and a product
| of $50. sos bushels. Anderson. Elk and