The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-06
$4,000,
Is the Wheat Yield For Kansas
This Year.
So Says Secretary COburn-Only
Once Exceeded.
THE SPRING WETNESS
Alone Prevented the Wheat
Crop From Breaking Record.
Corn Does Not Promise Well
Says Mr.. COburn.
THE SPRING WETNESS

Secretary Coburn of the state board
of agriculture has issued the following
crop bulletin:
The figures, and particularly those
pertaining to yields, represent the best
judgment of more than a thousand OBJ
servant men on the ground in as many
mmunities-growers, threshers and
millers-familiar through daily contact
with the matters on which they report
and each cautioned to make only safe,
conservative estimates" There is no
attempt or pretense that the figures
agree with the superior estimates" of
Mr.. X, the expert Mr.. Y, the oracle,
who to learn the exact situation has
been over the state from Alma to
Wamego at forty miles an hour, or Mr..
z, who, presumably occupied with other
affairs 365 days in the year, kindly
takes a day off, to tell a wondering
world the exact crop yields and candi-
tOnS in Kansas.
Winter Wheat-The crop of winter
wheat aggregates 60, $50. 656 bushels, be-
ing with one exception 0S92) the largest
ever grown in the state. The yield per
acre is figured on the entire acreage
sown and is 1851 bushels. The aggre-
gate acreage SOWn was 4,4S1, 63l, or 30
per cent greater than in the preceding
year, and the product greater by TO-
$50, 282 bushels.
Wet weather. extreme heat resulting
in rust and falling down when the
heads were filling, cut the yield much
below what had promised almost a GER
tainty, while the quality of much of the
grain that ripened was seriously in
jured; hence cOncenSuS of the careful
" analyzed reports indicates that prob
ably per cent of that total or about
1894. S94 bushels is understandable for
Touring purposes; 1888 per cent or 22,-
OO9 1877 bushels can be rated as med
ium" and 5475 per cent or SO, 6,575
bushels as good Thus, taking no
account of that reported as unsuitable
for flour the state appears to have in
sight 5,135. 1888 bushels more of milling
winter wheat than was raised in 1897.
Four counties, Lincoln. Mitchell, OS-
borne and Wyandotte, report an aver
age yield of 20 bushels per acre; Dick
inSOn and Ottawa, 10 bushels; followed
next bv Elk Ellsworth, Greenwood,
Phillips, Reno and Smith with Is bush
els. SeVenty-one counties produced 81
per cent of the total, or 59,042,747 bush
els. These, according to their rank in
total product of each, as last year led
bv Sumner with 4,2OS. S34 bushels, are
Barton, 3.364,S75; Mcpherson, 2,611 .104;
Rice, 2,279. 1870; Ellsworth, s S95' ~ ~
Russell. 1875. NJ; Reno, 1910, O9S: Har-
per. lis. $40; Dickinson, 1,703 939;
Mitchell 1926, $50; Ellis, 1907 203: Lin
coin. l. $50 $40; Pawnee, 1888. $40; Stafford,
/ 52l. 29S; Rush, 1,375.497; Osborne, 1874
100: Ottawa. .243, 949; COwley. 1.164, 566;
Kingan, 1.11O,900; Harvey, 1,036126;
Marion, 9SS, O53; Rocks, S53, POP; Pratt,
SO9, $50; Thomas, 694,81S; Rawlins, $50
PA: Brown, 686, 496; Montgomery, ST.
$50: Smith, GIL. 29S; Ness, 594. 032; DOni-
phan. $50. $50: Marshall, 543, $50; Cloud,
534, 495: Jewell. 500S20; Decatur. 41S,335;
422. 664; Trego, 3S9, $50; Edwards, $50. 22S;
Logan. 81, 345; Phillips, 37O,244; Chero-
kee, 339. O2O: Graham 337, 125; Norton,
1896. S14; Barber, SO7,16O; Washington,