The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-18
PREDICT A BIG CROP
WiChita's Grain Men Are Ex-
aiming Wheat Fields.
STRAW MAY BE SHORT
But Prospects for Good Grain
are Splendid.

The prospect CT the coming wAeat har-
vest IS what now most interests the grain
men Of Kansas. While some OF them
are investing large sums Of money in big
elevators in this city they are watching
the wheat growin~ in the farmers aelds.
They not only send agents 10 inspect the
wheat fields. bur they 90 themselves. and
farmers who sometimes see q man drive
Up 70 their fences and wander out into
the wheat aad, wonder II that fellow has
lost something.
The men belonging TO the Nevling and
10 the -.obert Coates companies were
comparing notes yesterday. ". IL Chat
ten - Clafin and A. C. Plumb u Lyons
were with than. and from their converse
ton a reporter for the Eagle learned
enough 70 convince him that the pros
poets for another wheat crop Were fat
teriug 20 say the least. These men had
visited the whea- fields all over western
Kansas and a large part Of Oklahoma
and while they found chance fields Of
poor wheat and the straw is generally
sl0r.- they Az predicted big crop ana
they vii make ready 20 handle their
part OF IT,
II vas learned from these men that il
is not often that q large growth OF straw
makes q heavy yield Of wheat It most
frequently happens that when the straw
is only of moderate height that The yield
IS best There is a large acrea &c soWn in
the territory tributary u Wichita The
acreage is larger than last year. and it
was the opinion of the grain men present
thct the crop this year would be as good
II not better than last year. They be-
lieve this and hence expect TO handle an
immense amount of wheat the coming
summer and next fan.
Speaking Of the crop IN the western
part Of the state. ". IL Chatter said he
had been In the wheat fields ia the coun-
ties Of Barton. Rice. Rush. Lane, Ed
wards. STAFFORD and Kingman, and ne
had partially examined the wheat III
ether counties He had never seen what
he considered a finer show Tor q EooI
crop OF wheat. he said when people
heard stories about Kansas not going to
have any wheat this year they could just
let It pass as a bull story and let 1t go at
that He predicted that there would be
more wheat raised in the territory trib-
utary to Wichita this year than last
year
A. c. Plumb OF Lyons had been over .
good deal Of the wheat belt north of this
CITY. and he reported the wheat short but
promising an ABUNDANT harvest. He. toe.
thought We would have more wheat this
year than last il seems that about all
the country north and west Of this city
raises hard wheat and II is ia fne condi-
ton and not ingura4 by the dry weather.
Even some OF the farmers living close
around this city who save expressed
fear thar some Of their wheat woul6 not
make q good crop admit that the hard
wheat In this section is all rieht.
The grain men keep posted on the
wheat crop for the reason that they de-
pend on it % furnish them business. and
there is no question about their expecting
e big crop. The Nevuns people are go
ing TO rush their big elevator and the
other grain men are doing everything in
their power 10 encourage them In the
good work There is rivalry amon@ the
different firms. but no jealousy. They
know that there win be enough for them
all and il was plainly TO be seen that the
grain men Of the southwest are ali look
ing forward 10 the time when Wichita
vii Be the great milling snd grain center
west Of Kansas City. AR Chatten says
lr Is bound TO come