The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-10
WHEAT FIGURES.
Kansas Crop Amounts to rs
Million Bushels.
The Average Yield Per Acre
Was Over Is Bushels.
is DARK FOR CORN.
Report Predicts Only Little
More Than Half Crop.
Over 100000 Acres Have
Been Planted This Year.

Secretary F. D. Coburn issued a
crop bulletin last evening which shows
that Kansas produced 7S,OS1 900 bushels
of wheat this year.
The corn prospects are, however, dis
couraging, the average being Sc per
cent
The bulletin shows the condition on
August of growing crops in Kansas, to-
gether with the preliminary estimates
by their growers in practically every
school district on the yields of winter
and spring wheat, rye, oats, barley and
hax-these estimates of yields being OF
course subject to revision later in the
year when threshing is completed. The
bulletin follows:
WINTER WHEAT.
The area sown as reported in March
by assessors was ,26S, 7O4 acres, and as
the season was so favorable it was vir-
tually all matured and harvested. giving
an aggregate yield of rs, 0S1 600 bushels,
which is the largest yield in the states
history. The average yield per acre
the whole acreage is 1927 bushels, which
has been surpassed in eight different
years since 1862 but is trifie less than
1t was in 1892 when the state reached
high water mark with 70,O35, $50 bushels
of winter wheat on 3,820013 acres, or
1888 bushels per acre. This years crop,
on IL per cent less acreage, is greater
by 81 per cent, or 35,265.577 bushels than
that of last year One county (Sumner)
not far short of 100000, and Rice has
more than 5000. 900. Thirteen counties
have more than 100000 bushels, and q
counties more than l. 900, 600 bushels each.
These q counties produced nearly Co.
900 bushels, or n per cent of the en-
tire crop. Brown, COffey, POttaWatOmie,
Wabaunsee, Washington and Wyan-
dotte counties averaged % bushels per
acre, and A counties averaged 20 bush
els or more. The growers estimates are
that SO per cent of the whole crop is of
n n ho rot ld in no r1ur -lrafE az
good" and 16 per cent as medium
which means almost none at all lower
than medium. Their judgment is that
about 40 per cent of the crop will be
marketed by the beginning of October,
and that this seasons sowing will be
fully 10 per cent greater than that of
SPRING WHEAT.
The constantly diminishing interest in
spring wheat and its supplanting by
winter wheat, corn, Katfir corn and
alfalfa continues The 109S29 acres re-
turned this year is decrease of more
than 43 per cent from that of the year
previous. The yield is reported as 754,-
152 bushels, or 6.S6 bushels per acre.
Decatur and Sheridan, extreme north
western counties, in the order named,
are the ones in which the spring wheat
is principally grown.
THE CORN CROP
The area planted to corn is 1853 020
acres or 10 per cent less than in 1899
On a basis of 100 as being a good, salts
factory condition, the condition given
for the whole state August 4, is Sc. The
unfavorable weather at that date has
continued since and must inevitably
have somewhat lowered the condition
stated The condition July 81, last year.
was So Cherokee and WoOdsOn |
counties report a condition of 100. Nine |
teen other counties, all within the tier
of four counties next west of the east |
line of the state, report conditions of 80 |
to 49, No counties reporting above so !
are outside the tier mentioned. Within |
these counties and many others as we'll !
there is a large acreage of good corn, |
but on the other hand many of the |
counties ordinarily relied upon to show |
not only the largest acreages but great |
yields are victims of tardy rainfall, |
and will therefore be this year without |
the wealth of corn for which they are |
usually SO famous. The situation in the |
territory named is such that even abun- |
dant rains at once could work no con- |
siderable improvement in the yield of |
grain. 1t is less favorable than one |
week ago, by several points.
The quantity of old corn found by /
assessors in farmers hands March / !
was 4S,252. 667 bushels, against 81, 697, $40 |
bushels in 1899.
Wheat on hand, 4s25. 12s bushels On |
hand last year, s 906, S44 bushels
The following table shows the counties |
In the order of their rank in aggregate |
yield OF winter wheat, and gives the con-