The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-06
is $4,000, 900 BUSHELS.
This is the Wheat Crop as Fig
ured by Mr.. C0burn.
Corn Crop After All in Quantity
May Be Large
Even After Many Thousands of Acres
of It Have Been Destroyed
Other Crops.


and hay, and these applied to acreages
Of each crop as returned by township
assessors, is issued by the state board
of agriculture today. The figures
showing yields are d concensus of those
made by farmers, threshermen and
millers in well-nigh every neighbor-
hood, each one being especially coun-
seled to make none but safe, conserv-
ative estimates and are based on the
entire acreage sown, instead of on acre
age harvested. While the efforts to
! ascertain the facts as to yields, so early
in the season, have been unusually
painstaking, it is believed the results
obtained will closely correspond with
those to be arrived at later when most
should be understood that the final can
| vass, ninety days hence, may give fig
| ures slightly grea ter or less.
WINTER WHEAT.
The yield of winter wheat aggregates
| AZ, 502, O87 bushels, or with two excep-
tions Q891 and 1892 the largest in the
states 1t history: The oi Xie ED per acre IS
| Cowley, Usage and Woodson counties
report the highest yields per acre-24
| bushels. Twenty counties raised 20
bushels or more per acre. Sixty-eight
counties produced 81 per cent of the
total, or 48O31, 154 bushels. These coun-
ties, according to their rank in total
product,led by Sumner with the enorm-
| Gus output of 4,585,060 bushels 6he
largest crop ever produced by a KAN
sas county,, are Barton, 2,760,645; Nc
6hSTSOn, Z,0SZ,S0O, Ellis, 1,OzU,11O, Sd
line, 1872, $40; Rush 1, 766,154; Ellsworth,
1921, 749; Sedgwick. 1,493, 712; Rice, l.
4S2 SO; Cowley, 1,461, 4O8; Pawnee ], 399,
12S; Marion, 1874, 403; Russell, ,289.S21;
Harper, 1.121, 456; Ottawa, 1,O14,426;
Reno, 955,016 Stafford, 92S,S89; Lincoln,
921.43s; Mitchell, 9O7, 01s; Labette, 69z,-
$50; Ness, 61o,oso; Montgomery, So, 500;
Brown, $50, 756; Thomas, 559120; Cloud,
53S, 1874; Kingman, 537, 4O7: Marshall,
500, $50; Osborne, 467; 712; Clay. 4S6, 224;
3S1, 800; Doniphan, 376,69S; Sheridan,
373,620: Edwards, 370,520; Washington,
35S,974; Smith. 343,616; Ford. SS2, 352;
Trego, 295, $50; Pratt, 263,3 $40; Johnson,
261, 5S4; Chautauqua, 246, $40; Decatur,
243 O49; Leavenworth, 241,575 Douglas,
236 166; Rawlins, 221, $50; Cove, 217, 728;
Geary. 216,762; Lane. 2O9.622; Logan,
1SS 1872; Atchison, S5,34O; Barber, $780,
O50; Phillips, 172. sos; Nemaha, 167, 1854;
Norton, 64,447; Wichita: 1852, SIS; Butler,
15S 444; Wilson, ISL, 1872; Hodgeman, AL
ASS; Coffey, 137,660; Graham, 1902;
Republic. 1858; Elk, 1882 Wyan-
dotte, 1O1.560.
was described medium, or below
in quality; this year it is reported
good" from every county, by several
of the correspondents and in some
counties by a smaller number as "med-
ium," while the occasional report of
poor is so infrequent as to appear
lonesome. The estimates indicate that
40 per cent of the years product will be
marketed within so days, and that the
acreage sown the coming fall will be at
least an increase of 10 per cent over last
falls sowing. The quantity of old
wheat found on hand by the assessors
in March 1904, 798 bushels,
against 1874. 1873 in March, 1896, and g.
672 0S3 bushels in 1895.
SPRING WHEAT.
The land returned as sown to spring
wheat is 125, Sol acres and it's yield l.
0S7, 612 bushels-an average of 864 BUSH
els per acre. The quality is medium
and good. Rawlins, Sherman. DECATUR,
dan, all northwestern counties, produce
the bulk of this crop.
Acres 1889; yield 1 565, LOG bushels;
yield per acre 1875 bushels; quality
generally good. The largest product,
106,274 bushels, is in Decatur county.
OATS.
Acres 9S9 355; yield 25,151.379 bushels:
yield per acre 1851 bushels. The area is
SO. 46 per cent, or 494, 4S9 acres, less than
or 3O.16 per cent greater. The quality,
with few exceptions. grades from medi-
UNI to very good The largest product.
LOG, $500 bushels, is in Marion county,
and the highest yields per acre in Re-
public (43) and Cowley go.
CORN.
In most parts of the state the prom
Using corn prospects of month ago
have diminished daily, until in several
|. counties they have been virtually de-
StrOyed and in a large number of 9TH
ers irreparably injured by the intense
heat and lack of sufficient rainfall.
| These conditions have been most severe
| in the central counties near the south
| ern border, including Kiowa, Pratt,
Comanche, Barber, Kingman, Harper,
| Sedgwick and Sumner, while a some
| what corresponding area on the north
| ern border has been favored above all.
| The average condition for the state is
60; in A counties it is higher; it is so or
above in 73 counties, and rs above in
| % counties; in it is 80 or above, thus;
Geary and PottawatOmie 80, Clay 80,
| Riley 95, Smith SO, Cloud SO, Jewell 100,
and Washington 103. In 20 counties it
ranges from 80 down, to in Pratt and
| in KioWa. Much of the corn planted
| in many of the counties usually noted
for large yields will not be worth saw
| ing even as fodder and yet with favor
| ing weather, presaged by widespread
| rains beginning and since August the
| crop as a whole may be as great as the
| total produced by some other states in
| decade. The total area planted is
| $3.50, S19 acres, and the quantity of old
bushels. as compared with 57.62 ,421
1895.
BARLEY.
Acreage 11S, JOB; yield $40, 1876 bushels;
| yield per acre 1892 bushels. The larg-
est product, ,342 bushels, is in Ness
county The next largest, 1850 bushels,
in Sheridan, 92,764 bushels in Thomas,
and 92,360 bushels in Graham county.
FLAX.
Acres 169,1So; yield 1,196.sS1 bushels;
counties have more than 5000 acres,
Allen leading with 14,O71 acres and a
product of 98,497 bushels. The counties
having the next largest product are
Neosho with 79,456, Coffey, 1850, and
Bourbon, 72,247 bushels.
| HAY.
| Average yield of timothy, 1.25 tons
per acre; clover, 1S6 tons; prairie hay,
| LOB tons.
OTHER CROPS.
| The condition of other crops is as
| follows: Broom corn, "A; castor beans
1S; clover. 80; timothy. rs; alfalfa, 80;
pastures. 20; sorghum,7S; Irish potatoes,
62; sweet potatoes, 10; millet, 20; Kafir
corn, 70; milo maize, rice corn of eJr-
| lsale1ll corn r,A1,los- - 20.