The Advocate and news., 1898-08-10
Kansas tias Plenty OF Wheat.
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Clay, 469,455; Labette, 442,69S; Sheridan,
1884; Trego 3S9, $50; Edwards, $685.
228; Logan, 81 ,345; Phillips, $40 ,224;
Cherokee, 339, ,O2O; Graham, 3S7 ,125; Nor
ton, 1886, ,814; Barber, 307 100; Washing
ton, SO2, $50; Ford, 29S,55O; Leavenworth,
272, ,459; Neosho, 271 1,766; Crawford, 267,-
4S0; Wichita, 25S,072; Butler, 256,676;
Chautauqua, 241, 1858; Lane, 241 ,O92;
Atchison, 237, ,292; Johnson, 2S2,41O; Cof-
fey, 1924; Nemaha, 1898; Republic,
181 ,237; Hodgeman, 1854; Sherman,
178,54S; Wilson, 176,92S; Cove, 6,lS6;
Wyandotte, 10000; Kiowa, 1926;
.Jeary, 144,5O8; Elk, 100, ,428; Scott, 1O7,-
$50; Lyon, 107,S2S.
About 80 per cent. is reported as likely
to be marketed by October l, and the
acreage that will be sown the present
fall as slightly larger than last years
sowing.
SPRING WHEAT.
The yield Of spring wheat Is 1,38O,291
bushels or 11% bushels per acre on Ill.,
4S5 acres. This is about 40 per cent.
more Of this grain than was grown last
year on a considerably larger acreage.
Sherman is the leading spring wheat
county, with 338,445 bushels, followed
by Decatur, Rawlins, Cheyenne, Thomas
and Norton in the order named, each
with more than 100000 bushels. The
quality is quite invariably reported me-
dium or good.
RYE.
Acres, 153,60O; yield, 1887, ,841 bushels;
yield per acre 1876 bushels. Reno county
leads with yield of 157, ,120 bushels, fol-
lowed by Rawlins, Rocks, Decatur and
Norton, as named.
OATS.
The yield Of oats is 1875 bushels per
acre on 1,055,645 acres, or 19,S32791
bushels. The acreage was larger than
last year, but the total yield less by Is
per cent Very little good oats is re-
ported. Sedgwick and Washington are
the only counties reporting 100000
bushels or more, with yields Of rs and
2S bushels per acre, respectively.
CORN.
The season throughout has been in
most of the State adverse to corn.
Weather too cool and too entirely wet
interfered with planting, termination
and cultivation up to the beginning of
July, and since then the opposite con-
ditiOns have prevailed to such an extent
that the poor stand, late planting, rank
growth of weeds and too dry, baked con-
dition Of the soil could not be overcome.
OF course there are local exceptions and
favorable situations giving ample prom
Use, but the average condition for the
whole State is g. against 79 May 81.
In forty counties it is higher, reaching
105 in Chautauqua and 100 in Linn and
RaWlins. 1t is 95 in Woodson, "a In
Cherokee and 80 or above in COffey
COwley, Logan, Norton, Pratt and Sher-
idan. In thirty-nine counties the con-
dition ranges at 70 or above. The worst
showing applies largely in some of the
very foremost producing counties,
where it is, for example, in Clay 2S,
Cloud 33, Ellsworth %, Jewell SO,
Mitchell &c. Osborne 25, Ottawa 26, Re-
public 30 Rocks 25, and Smith 43.
The area planted was 7,242 2437 acres,
or nearly 13 per cent. or 1,O51,0O0 acres
less than in 1897.
BARLEY.
Acres, 122,45S; average yield per acre,
1926 bushels; total yield, 2848, 144 BUSH
els, or So per cent. more than last year.
Ness leads in this crop, with nearly 1O,-
600 acres and Lane has more than 7,000
FLAX.
The area in fax was $4,000 acres or
about 30 per cent. greater than last year.
and the increase in output sc per cent
Total acres, 1898; total crop, 1888, AIS
bushels; yield per acre, TAG bushels.
Anderson county had the most-19, 1866
acres. Allen, Bourbon, Cherokee, Cof-
fey, Franklin, Johnson, Linn, Miami and
Neosho are the other counties raising
upwards of 10000 acres each.
OTHER CROPS.
The condition of other crops is as fol-
lows: Broom corn, "a; castor beans, IS;
clover, S5; timothy, 80; alfalfa, SO; pas
lures, 80; Irish potatoes Is; sweet pota-
toes 30. millaf 72. Kaffir corn 22. snr-