Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-08-06
REACHES eO,570,s56 BUSHELS
QUALITY. HOWEVER. Is NOT ALL
THAT COULD BE HOPED FOR.
Corn Has Suffered From Wet Weather
Early and Dry Weather In July
Average Condition Placed
at 80 Per Cent-Oth-
err Crops.


letin giving the condition of growing crops
| in Kansas July 81. together with estimates
| by its correspondents of the yields OF
! winter and spring wheat, rye. oats. barley
| and flax, and these applied to the acreages
| of each in the various counties, as ascer-
| tanned by township assessors. is issued by
the state board of agriculture to-day.
The figures. and particularly those per-
| tanning to yields, represent the best judg-
| ment of more than thousand observant
| men on the ground in as many communities
| growers, thresherS and millers-familar
| 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. the sec
| retary says, that the figures agree with
| the superior estimates of Mr.. ~, the ex-
pert 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.. H.. 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 conditions
| in Kansas
| 1t is believed the results given will close
| ly correspond with those arrived at later
| when threshing is completed and to which
| the present figures are but preliminary.
The crop of winter wheat aggregates
| CO. 57O,656 bushels. being with one excep-
ton QS92) the largest ever grown in the
| state. The yield per acre is figured on
! the entire acreage sown and is 1851 BUSH
els. The aggregate acreage sown was
! 4,4S1637, or 50 per cent greater than in the
preceding year, and the product greater
| by 1O.5302S2 bushels. Wet weather, ex-
! treme heat resulting in rust and falling
| down when the heads were filling. cut the
| vic uh haI l.
| most certainty, while the quality of much
| of the grain that ripened was seriously in
| jured; hence a consensus of the carefully
! aualyZed reports indicates that probably
| S per cent of that total, or about 5. S94
bushels, is understandable for Touring pur-
| poses: 1858 per cent or 22,0O91s1 bushels
| can be rated as medium and 54.i5 per
cent. or SO, ,1665I5 bushels as good Thus
taking no account of that reported as
unsuitable for flour, the state appears to
have in sight 5,1552SS bushels more of mill
ing winter wheat than was raised in 1857.
Four counties, Lincoln, Mitchell, Os-
borne and Wyandotte, report an average
yield of 20 bushels per acre; Dickinson and
| Ottawa. 10 bushels; followed mex. by Elk.
Ellsworth, Greenwood, Phillips. Reno and
Smith, with is bushels. Seventy-one coun-
ties produced 81 per cent of the total or
rank in total product of each, as last
year, led by Sumner, with 4,20S, ,S34 bushels,
are Barton, 3,36i,S75; Mcpherson, 2,617 l0i; f;
Rice, 2.219 100: Ellsworth. 1885, IA; Sedg-
wick. 1861 ,2S2: Saline. 1.S92s64; Russell.
l.s1S.352; Reno 1.sl0.09S; Harper, 1.7lS3iO;
Dickinson. 1703. .9S9: Mitchell. 1G26. $50; Ell
lis. 1.601. .2o3: Lincoln, 1,590,Se0; Pawnee, l.
5is.s4O; Stafford. 152l, ,S9s; Rush. 1.3.5.4a7; Os-
borne 1,2741oo: Ottawa, 1,2iS.949; Cowley.
1,164,566 Kingman, 1.1lO910: Harvey,
1 1O36, ,126: Marion. sss.o5s: Rocks, $751;
2O2: Pratt. SO9, 500; Thomas 69iS1s; Rawlins,
6s5,2i4; Brown, SIS, 1876; Montgomery, 61.6So;
Smith. Gil ,29s; Ness, 594, ,032: Doniphan. 562.
$50; Marshall. $3.50 Cloud. 5S4 4a5: Jewell.
5oo,s2o; Decatur, 4lS.s35; Clay. 4694 455; La
bette. 442,69s: Sheridan. 422, 664: Trego, 3s9.-
$50: Edwards. S322S; Logan. 31,Si5; Phil
lips, go, ,224; Cherokee, 339, ,020; Graham, 337.-
125: Norton, 335. s14: Barber, 307. 100; Wash
ington, 3O2. $50; Ford. 29S.550: Leavenworth,
212459; Neosho, 21,166 Crawford. 2S7.4So:
Wichita, 25s,012; Butler. 256.6i6: Chautau-
qua. 2il,35S; Lane, 2l1 ,G92; Atchison. 90, ,292;
Johnson. 49,, 40; Coffey, 1924: Nemaha,
lS5.3lS; Republic. 1S1 231; Hodgeman. 1854;
Sherman. lsS,54S; Wilson, 1I6,92S: Cove, 49,
1876; Wyandotte. 1109D: Kiowa 1884, 256; Geary.
1i450S; Elk, 130. .42S; Scott, 1Oi.s3O; Lyon, 1o7-
32S.
About SO 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 SOW
ing.
Spring wheat-The yield of spring wheat
Is 291 bushels. or 11sl bushels per acre
on l1l,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 coun-
ty; with 3sS: AS bushels, followed by De,
Norton; in the order named. each with
more than 100000 bushels. The quality IS
quite Invariably reported medium or good.
Rye-Acres. $4,000: yield. 2,as7.S41 bushels:
yield per acre. l5.6 bushels. Reno county
leads, with a yield of 10. 40 bushels. fol-
lowed by Rawlins. Rocks. Decatur and Nor
Oats-The yield of oats is 1875 bushels
per acre on lOoo.64' acres, or 10 i31 BUSH
els; The acreage was larger than last
Very little good oats Is reported. Sedg-
Wick and Washington are the only counties
reporting 100000 bushels more with
yields of % and 2S bushels per acre, re-
spectively.
Corn.The season throughout has been in
too cool and too entirely wet interfered
with planting, termination and cultivation
up to the beginning of July. and since then
such an extent that the poor stand. late
planting. rank growth Of weeds and too
be overcome. OF course. there are local
exceptions and favorable situations giving
ample promise. but the average condition
for the whole state is IA. against .I9 May 81.
In forty corn counties 1t is higher. reach
ing 105 in Chautauqua and 100 in Linn and
Rawins. 1t is 95 in Woodson. "a in Chero-
kee, and so or above in Coffet. Cowley.
Logan. Norton. Pratt and Sheridan. In
thirty-nine counties the condition ranges
at 20 or above. The worst showing applies
largely in some of the very foremost corn
producing counties. where it is. for ex-
ample, in Clay 2S. Cloud 80. Ellsworth %.
Jewell SO. Mitchell 81. Osborne 25 Ottawa
e6, Republic 80 Rocks %, and Smith 43.
nearly Is per cent or ,0o1 coo acres less than
in 1891
Barley-Acres 12245S: average yield per
acre o. % bushels: total yield. 2.S4S.144 bush
els. or 65 per cent more than last year.
Ness leads in this crop. with nearly 10000
acres, and Lane has more than 200.
FlaX-The area in fax was $1,000 acres,
or about 30 per cent greater than last year.
and the increase in output So per cent. To-
tai acres, 2l9393: total crop. 1,63S,415 bush
els: yield per acre 7.46 bushels.
Anderson county had the most-19.3s6
Franklin. Johnson. Linn. Miami. and Ne
oshot are the other counties raising up
wards of 10000 acres each.
Other crops-The condition of the other
crops is as follows: Broomcorn, a. castor
beans. a. clover s.: timothy. so: alfalfa
potatoes SO: mlet. IS: Kaffir corn, IS;
ghum, 81.
Brewster Refuses to Run.
ST. JOSEPH. MO. Aug. 5.-(Special)
Senator A. W. Brewster to-day gave his
final answer to leading politicians in the
Fourth congressional district who. despite