The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-18
KANSAS is 0. X
Governor Stanley Talks En-
couragingly of Conditions.
State In Excellent Shape to
Withstand Failure.
WHEAT AND CATTLE.
Former Crop Is Valued at Over
AZ Million Dollars.
Latter Valued at Least so Mill
ion Dollars.
Total Value OF Products This
Year lO9 Million Dol lars.
Former Crop Is Valued at Over
AZ Million Dollars.

Governor STANLEY mas EetuA A~U AiO-
his trip to Colorado and he gave out the
following interview to day about the
Kansas crop conditions:
The present drouth throughout the
west has been very injurious and, IN
Kansas, has worked a practical destruc-
tion Of the corn crop There are Ger
tain portions OF the state where the
corn crop is in fair condition and with
seasonable rains Kansas might pro-
duce $4,000, 900 bushels but the latter
part of July and the month Of August
As always the trying period for the corn
crop and it may as well be considered
a substantial failure. but with the corn
crop wholly eliminated, Kansas IS IN
better shape this year than in many
past years and while the comparison
affords no particular cause for encour-
agement. 1t AFFORDS no ground for dis
cOura cement.
The value of our wheat crop Will be
equal to our more than that Of last
year which is round numbers was 4
million dollars. Our live stock Will be
at least SO million dollars. alfalfa and
other forage crops million, hay and
grasses 3 million This makes total
of 109 million for farm products not
counting corn. oats. potatoes, fruit ana
many other things of which conSidera-
BILE quantities will be produced The
farm products of Kansas consisting of
wheat, corn. potatoes, forage crops, and
live stock products for the last 10 years
aggregate more than 1850 million dol
lars During the entire period we had
three short years, the product for 1893
being l22 million. 1894. 113 million, 1886,
JIG million, SO that the entire farm pro-
ducts this year would practically equal
the entire farm products of the best Of
the three years above mentioned.
The bank deposits for these three
years We're approximately as follows:
1893 IS million. 1894 55 million, 1896 50
million The entire value of the crop
products added to the bank deposits
for the best Of these three years would
be III million dollars. The bank de-
pOSltS or Kansas at this time aggre-
gate about TO million. The farm pro
ducts viii be more than 109 million and
VIII therefore more than equal the sum
of the farm products and bank de-
posts Tor the best of the three small
years since 1881 Taking our farm pro-
ducts alone for 20 years and dividing
1t into periods Of years, eaching com
menclng with 81 and ending with the
present year. we have for the first per
iod a farm production of SIS million
for the second 696 million. for the third
646 million and for the present years
period ending with the present year 735
million basing this production upon the
estimate heretofore made
In 1896 the last short year we had
IN Kansas our Indebtedness was very
large and the amount of money going
out or the state to pay interest on this
Indebtedness was enormous. Since that
time public and private Indebtedness
mas peen largely reduced, thousands of
farmers who We're in debt at that time
are now out Of debt with deposits in the
bank, the rate of interest has been low
cred, and we owe many million dollars
less than we did in 1896
IL is too evident for discussion that
the present drouth i'm the west viii
work serious injury and win lead to
mucn announcement but SO far as
Kansas Is concerned it viii not be al
tOgethsr without good results Had
there been a large yield of corn with
plenty or pasturage, following our i'm
mense wheat harvest imrnigration
would have again turned toward the
state and attempted to open m yvAs+
ern Kansas to general agriculture.
Already the steps Of the fnnierant
were turned in that direction and vvitt,
a bounuful corn crop following the nm
equaied wheat crop in the state it IL
safe to say that the western third ~
the state would have more than doubled
IN population in a short time The re-
suit would have been disastrous r-b54
experiment has been tried in EVansss
twice; both times it has proved a. fan
ure and will prove a failure as often
as tried. A's"
Western Kansas is peculiarly a stock
country and Well adapted for the graz
ing OF large herds and the raising Of
forage plants necessary to carry tban
safely through the winter season. The
present dry weather and practical fail
ure or the corn crop viii prevent q
repetition Of the unWise experiment
that has twice proved a failure ana
thus prevent a recurrence Of the bard-
ship that has twice followed tha 81
tempt e open up western Kansas fo
general farming. -
The year 1901 will mark the close ~
a year period the most suecessf,SI tb,+
tAansas has ever enjoyed with x nil
Hon bushels of the best wheat thai T,-a-
ever raised in her granaries VIII "a
million dollars deposited in her banks
with 20 million bushels Of old corn -,
hand. with larger herds than 60 -
her pastures and forage plants neoas-
sary to carry them through the go
Ing winter, with q people less e1s+slS -.
success and discouraged by adversit3,