The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-23
Wheat Crop This Year Was
Simply Immense.
Official Figures Made by the
State Board of Agriculture.
SUMNER STILL LEADS.
Two Counties Produce More
Than Ten Eastern States.
Value of Wheat and Corn Little
Under That of Last Year.

The official bulletin by the Kansas
board of agriculture, giving the years
yield of winter and spring wheat, and
corn, and their home values is issued
today and contains the first figures
emanating from the board as to the
seasons products
Summarized. the showing is as fol-
lows:
Winter wheat-Acres, SPAS, ,547; pro-
duct, bushels, 9O.045.514; value, $50,47s,-
$40.
Spring wheat-Acres, 81 ,935; product,
bushels. 2S7,5S1; value, $1SO.s25.
Corn-Acres, 6,722.973; product, bush
els, 42,605,672; value, $21,7S1,2 215.
According to the records of the state
board OF agriculture, the volume of this
years winter wheat exceeds that of
1900 by 13,450,071 bushels. or 1856 per
cent. and its home value is greater by
the yield, the greatest in the history OF
Kansas, averaged 61.34 bushels for each
inhabitant, worth $34.59.
For each of the past ten years ending
with 1900 Kansas has raised of wheat
an average of 46, ,272, 90 bushels annually;
the 1901 production is 94.6 per cent
more by 11,915, ,1S3 bushels or 1872 per
cent than the u. S. department of agri-
culture has ever reported raised by
any state in any year, barring the Kan
sas yield in 1900, which, according to the
same authority, had for the preceding
year the distinction of being the bulk
lest, but only until Kansas had anoth-
er season, when she of all the states
surpassed her own record and produced
a still greater crop. The combined
value of this years wheat and corn ia
but 11.3 per cent less than that of the
same crops grown in 1900.
Outside of the general increase in
well nigh every neighborhood, the story
of this years achievements if told in
detail would be largely repeating the
history of former years. The bulk of
the crop was, as usual, grown in the
central third of the state from east to
west, Sumner county again leading
with yield of 6,S12 1O2 bushels. follow
ed, yet somewhat remotely, by Barton
which has 4830,00 bushels, the COM
bined product of these two aggregating
11.642111 bushels. or nearly 10 per cent
of this years total yield. These two
counties the present year produced
more wheat than was grown last year,
according to government figures, In all
New England and the states of New
Jersey, Delaware, Alabama, Arkansas,
Montana and South Carolina COM
bined.
Shawnee county raised SO 224 bushels
of wheat, valued at $36, 126, and LOSS. .220
bushels of corn. Only eight counties
raised more corn than Shawnee; Nema-
ha led with 3,107, ,664 bushels, and Mar
shall followed with 1,729,665.
The four counties of Sumner. Barton.
Rice and Mcpherson this year produced
more wheat than the entire last years
product of either Illinois or Missouri
In her brief history Kansas has raised
six wheat crops (winter and spring. of
over so million bushels each, aggregat-
ing 412, ,291, ,429 bushels, worth on the
farms where grown $243, 064. 600.
The acreage of winter wheat as found
by assessors in a house to house cam
vass was the largest by 1876 acres
ever reported (the nearest approach be-
ing s. 5110S73 acres in 1899, making an
increase for the present year of over %
per cent, or 9S9, ,S43 acres.
The present sowing is reported as
throughout the state in the most prom
Using condition ever known at the time
of year, and it's advanced and rank
growth is affording abundant succulent
pasturing for millions of live stock. The
area sown is stated by growers as great
er by 635 900 acres, or IL per cent, than
for the crop of this year.
The raising of spring wheat is so
overshadowed by that of the winter va
rieties as to make it an inconspicuous
and diminishing item in Kansas agrf-
culture.
Detailed reports indicate that owing
to the unusual shortage of corn about
II per cent, or Is, ,2SS, 1892 bushels, of this
years wheat viii be used in one form
or another as feed for farm animals.
The quantity of wheat in farmers
hands March 1 was 1896. .555 bushels, as
against 4,S24, S2s bushels last year.
The old corn hand March 1 was
80, 121, ,339 bushels, as against 4S252,6 SGT
bushels at that time last year.