The advocate., 1897-08-11
KANSAS CROPS.
Secretary Columns Figures and Report
Relative to Agricultural Products,


yields of wheat, rye, oate, barley, flax
and hay, and these applied to acreagOs
of each crop as returned by Township
Assessors, was issued by the State Board
OF Agriculture last Friday. The figures
showing yields are conCensus Of those
made by farmers, threshermen and mill
ers in well-nigh every neighbOrhood,
each one being especially Counseled to
"mske none but cafe, conservative esti-
mates" and are based on the entire acre
age sown, instead Of on acreage har-
vested. While the efforts to ascertain
the facts 80 to yields, so early in the sea
son, has been unusually painstaking, and
it is believed the results obtained will
closely correspond with those to be ar
rived at later when most Of the threshing
has been done, it should be understood
that the final canvass ninety days hence
may give figures slightly greater or less.
Winter Wheat.-The yield of winter
wheat aggregates 49,502087 bushels, or,
with two exceptions q891 and 1892, the
largest in the States history. The yield
per acre is 14.9l bushels on the 3,3l8, 1888
acres sown. Cowley, Usage and Wood
son counties report the highest yields
per acre-24 bushels. Twenty counties
raised twenty bushels or more per acre.
Sixty-eight counties produced 81 per
cent. of the total, or 49,031, ,l54 bushels.
These counties, according to their rank
in total product, led by Sumner with the
enormous output of 4,585,O60 bushels
(the largest crop ever produced by
Kansas county,, are: Barton 2,760645,
Mcpherson 2,392,99S, Ellis 1,S20,116, Sa-
line 1,792,3 $40, Rush 1,766,154, Ellsworth
1921, TAO, Sedgwick l, l,499,7l2, Rice ,4s2,.
$40, COwley 1,461, ,4O8, Pawnee 1899, ,126,
Marion 1,374,4O3, Russell 1880, ,82l, Dick
inson 1,l96,178, Harvey ], ,l37, 1880, Harper
1,l2l,456, Ottawa 1,014,426, Reno 955,016,
Stafford 929, $50, Lincoln 92l, ,438, Mitch
ell 9O7Ol8, Labette 694,56O, Ness 67OO90,
Montgomery 664, $50, Brown 63O,756,
Thomas 559,l20, Cloud 538,734, Kingman
537,4O7, Marshall 5O9,83O, Osborne 467,-
712, Clay 436,224, Jewell 419,39l, Neosho
393,754, Rocks 381 ,82O, Doniphan 376,699,
Sheridan 9736 500, Edwards 370,5 500, Wash
ington 35S,974, Smith 343,616, Ford 332,-
352, Crawford 322,764, Cherokee 3O7, $50,
Trego 295,33O, Pratt 263,340, Johnson
261,584, Chautauqus 246,34O, Decatur
243,049, LeRvenworth 24l,575, Douglas
236,166, Rawlins 221, 1850, Cove 2l7,728,
Gesry 2l6,762, Lane 209,622, Logan 1885,
392, Atchison 185,340, Barber lS0O50,
Phillips 172665, Nemaha 167 1854, Norton
l64,447, Wichita l62,575, Butler 158,444,
Wilson Isl, 1892, HodgemBn l41, ,489, Coffey
1860, Graham 1902, Republic 1877
1863, Elk 103,224, Wyandotte 10l,560.
One year ego four-fifths Of the crop was
described as medium, or below" in
quality; this year 1t is reported "good"
from every county by several Of the cor
respondents, and in some counties by
smaller number as medium" while the
occasional report Of ''poor" is so infre-
quent as to appear lonesome. The esti-
mates indicate that 40 per cent. Of the
years product will be marketed within
sixty days, and that the acreage sown
the coming fall will be at least an in
crease Of 10 per cent. over last falls SOW
ing. The quantity Of old wheat found
on hand by the assessors in March was
1,604,798 bushels, as against 1,941, ,153 in
March, 1896, and 3,672,083 bushels in
1895.
Spring Wheat. The land returned as
sown to spring wheat is 25,601 acres and
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