Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-07
BIG CROPS IN KANSAS
Corn Safe From Frosts and Biggest
Yield in States History
Promised.
Estimated at 40o,ooo,ooo Bushels.
Worth Nearly s1OO,0OO,OoO-
Senator Beveridge's Views.
Will Confer With the President on
Philippine Question Spanish
in Chicago Schools.

III OulCdSV oVuVVASs
Atchison. Kan, Sept. THE 1899
Kansas corn crop is made" Any dam
age that could yet be wrought by late
hot winds or early frosts will be too in
significant to be considered by the ex-
perts in their final estimates of the total
yield.
The acreage of the state was 9,1S2, 900
acres. The last report of the United
States agricultural department gave
the condition at LOG, putting the state
far in the lead of all other states. The
condition has vastly improved since
that estimate was made. Kansas has
raised 40o,000,000 bushels of corn, an
amount far in excess of that ever pro-
duced by any state in the union in any
one year or by any equal area of the
world.
Four hundred million bushels. The
human mind fails to grasp the meaning
of the expression. To move the crop
would require %, 800 trains of cars, Civ
ing forty cars to the train. Were each
car forty feet long, each train would
equal 1900 feet in length without loco
motive and caboose; then. multiplying
| the %, 500 trains by 1000 feet. the
length of each train, we have 800, 100000
feet. Dividing that number by the num-
Der of feet to the mile, to-wit, $3.50, it
makes 6,S1S miles, twice the distance
| from New York to London.
\ Counting sixty bushels to the load, it
would take 6666,666 teams to haul the
| Kansas corn crop at one load each-a
string of teams that would reach
around the world. If loaded into cars
with 500 bushels each, a train over 5000
miles long would be formed.
Here are some figures by Kansas
most noted statistician. d. e. Goode, of
Atchison:
If the corn crop of Kansas amounts
4 to 00,000,000. as it promises, it would
4 take 10000 men 900 days to husk it if
they husked sixty bushels a day each,
Ior it would take 10000 men $50 days to
husk the crop. If wagon hauls sixty
| bushels of corn to the load, shelled
4 corn, it Will take 100000 teams to hau
i it at one load each Ii loaded into cars
4 of 30, 900 pounds. or 800 bushels each, ii
\ Will take 500, 900 cars. Cars thirty-siS
feet in length will reach 2l,o60,oOO feet
Tor 1000 miles. Twenty cars to a trair
Will make 10000 trains. This is shellee
corn. Corn on the cob would take a
least 100000 ears,
AS the crop will exceed 400. 900, 90
bushels, Statistician Goode will have l.
revise his figures.
Ii young man of q should start j
to measure the corn crop which kansa
Will produce this year, and il it wer
possible for him to measure busht
every second, working ten hours a da
every working day in the year h
would be so years old before he com
pIeted his job and could take a yaca
: ton.
According to the figures of f. "
Waynant, freight agent of the Missou1
Pacific at Leavenworth, it would re
quire the entire equipment of any west
ern railroad two years to move thi
years corn crop out of the state {
Kansas.
!, Corn is now bringing about 80 cent
per bushel. At that price the value +,
the Kansas crop is sl2o.ooo,00o, so ps
cent more than the value of the tot;
output of all the gold mines of the Uni
ed States.
The big corn crop OF Kansas ma
n mean a lower price, but fortunate
. Kansas farmers are now in shape
T. hold their corn. and that means mo
II hogs and cattle. Corn on the hoof brin,
ii far more at all times and under all CT
re cumstances than corn on the cob.
/. Kansas farmers now have on depos
. in the state banks s2409l,745, an exec
~ over last year of sl.6s6.7ss.74, and c;
or afford to wait for q wood selling pris
u Kansas elevator men say that we
ed constructed crib will keep corn in go
mt condition ten years. But according
er the statistician of the Mail, Kans
Id doesn't have TO ship out her corn.
r. Saying nothing about the hogs a
" sheep in the state, there are, accordi
on to Secretary Coburn, 2,SS6.06S cattle
' sJ the state ready to take care of tn
nd corn. Estimating that 1t takes ten bus
els of corn to fatten a steer there will
= enough of this years corn crop to fatt
all the cattle in the state, and Still ha
a few hundred thousand bushels left
seed. However, as not over one-third
the cattle will be fattened, the amou
e required for that purpose will not
u over. say, 90.000.o00 bushels.
When we come to figure on
amount Oh c9IIie IN hdlSaS the sum
tai passes the ordinary human comp
tension. just as the estimated CO
crop does. Estimating five feet to ed
animal and standing the entire kans
herds in line, the line would extend
, distance of 1850 miles. Estimating
} cattle at 700 pounds weight each,
have 1920, 500 pounds of Kan:
beef.
Reckoning that one-quarter of
pound of beef is good meal for an
dividual We find that kansas
enough cattle to feed every member
the human race for period of eli
days, giving each one square IN
every day. If all the cattle of Kan
could be combined in one COW she CO
slake her thirst out OF one of the c
lakes of Manitoba, while some ligh
clad Mexican greaser was extract
, her Tactical fluid beyond the south
~ banks of the Rio Grande.
Kansas corn stories are not exage
ated. One popularity about this ye;
crop is that everybody has 1t. 1t ma
no difference how the corn was plan
when planted, whether the corn
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