The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-07
UNEQUALLED
Kansas Crop Prospects We're
Never So Good.
Condition of Wheat For Whole
State Over 100 Per Cent.
ARE NO CHINCH BUGS
RaVages of Insect Pest Not
Been Noticeable.
Harvesting Has Already Begun
in Many Sections.
THE Is BIG COUNTIES.
They Contain Half Wheat Acre
age of Kansas.
RaVages of Insect Pest Not
Been Noticeable.
Harvesting Has Already Begun
in Many Sections.
THE Is BIG COUNTIES.
They Contain Half Wheat Acre
age Of Kansas.
Sun Never ShOne Upon More
Promising Area of Wheat.

Secretary +. D. Coburn of the Kansas
department of agriculture today issued
a bulletin giving the results of search
ing inquiry into the states crop condi-
tions on June 2. as learned from exper-
fenced eporters=grOwers, millers and
elevator men in every neighbOrhOod-
specially cautioned in each instance to
make only safe, conservative estimates.
Any occasional local statements ap-
pearing extreme or extravagant, sug
gesting a disposition to unduly magnify
or minimize in any direction have been
carefully eliminated, and if any differ
ent the situation is even more favorable
than the published figures Indicate
This. in accordance with the depart
ment's invariable rule that Kansas
shall always be able to show more as
sets and deliver more goods than the in
Ventory and advertisements set forth.
The average condition of winter
wheat for the whole state is 1909 per
cent. ranging from 81 in Cheyenne coun-
~ to Ill in Harper. The counties report
ing the highest conditions are Harper,
Ottawa, Leavenworth, Sedgwiclx, Pratt,
Cloud. Clark, Barton and Bourbon.
OF the los counties, Is in the central
third of the state, or Sumner, Barton,
Mcpherson, Rice. Rush, Ellis, Pawnee,
Russell. Sedgwick. Saline, Stafford, Re
no. Mitchell Ellsworth and Harper,
named according to their rank in acre
age, have SO per cent of the entire
wheat area, with an average condition
of 1894, ranging from 81 in Rush to Ill
in Harper Along with these counties
the IA having successfully the next larS-
est acreages, viz: Dickinson, Marion,
Lincoln, Osborne. Cowley, Ottawa,
Rocks, Harvey, Kingman, Thomas, La
bette, Ness, Smith and Pratt, making
%, located mostly in the central third
of the state, contain rs per cent of the
area sown to wheat and show an aver
age condition of 1925.
In 81 counties having 95 per cent of
the wheat acreage, or practically the
wheat field of Kansas, the average con
dition is 1O1.07
Material damage by chinch bugs is
not reported from any county except
Dickinson In Dickinson Marion Nc
Pherson, ottawa and Rice counties the
Hessian fly has been doing harm in
many fields, more particularly in those
OF Dickinson and Mcpherson. From
many directions stories are sent OF
wheat fields infested with myriads OF
small green lice or flies, but from no.
Where are there definite statements Oi
their yet being actually harmful
harvesting has begun in the earlier
fields of the southern tier of counties.
ON the whole it is doubtful if the sur
ever shone upon a like area of wheat ir
single state, more promising than thai
IN Kansas at the beginning of June
1900.
Generally throughout the state tn,
condition and prospects of corn ar,
very encouraging. The acreage is re-
ported practically the same as last wear
with condition of 93.2 pei. cent. beins
points higher than at the same datt
one year ago, and IA higher than tw,
years ago. In p counties which had Il
per cent of the corn acreage last YEA
the conditions averages Is, varyine a,
follows: Bourbon 100, Brown 9S. Butte
Ss Clay 80, Cloud so, Coffey SO. CowIe,
gS, Decatur 81, Dickinson 81. Franklin on
Greenwood 80. jackson 95. Jefferson 1G6
Jewell "a, Linn 100. Lyon &C. Marion 81
Marshall 80, Mcpherson 81, Miami EN-
mitchell 81, Nemaha "a. Norton 94
Usage ~, Phillips So, Pottawatomie 99
and Reno IS.
ihe Following table shows the estfna
teu number of acres of wheat in eacj
county, placed in rank according to if
aeSdoease' the acres planted to corn il
4ss9 and the condition of the GROWN,
corn ana wheat at this time.