The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-28
SELLING NEW WHEAT
Quality PleaseS MiIIers as 1t
Yields Much Flour.
BEATS FORMER RECORDS
Story of the BOundIeSS Wheat
Fields Still Coming.
BEATS FORMER RECORDS

MiIIers Of this city are buying the new
crop Of wheat and the fact that it brings
within two TO three cents Of the price for
old wheat is guarantee enough that the
quality is al Hght Good old wheat on
the market yesterday brought hfty-three
cents and the new crop sold for fifty
TO ffty-one cents per bushel.
OF course bran and shorts are worth
something for feed. but the miller values
bushel OF wheat Tor just what it Will
turn cut in -four. They know that the
new wheat which in most cases tests six
ty pounds or over has -four in it and that
kind Of wheat makes good -four. because
it is perfectly matured. This crop Of
wheat is going 10 enable Kansas miIlers
to make Kansas flour more than ever IN
demand in the eastern markets Of this
country and in Europe new wheat is not
considered a merchanable article until it
has gone through the sweat because the
millers know it VIII sweat ano heat in the
-four if it does not 90 through that process
before 1t is ground. They are, however,
willing to take chances on it this year,
because of the fine quality. Kansas evil
Gently has the best crop Of wheat this
year that has been turned out in many
harvests.
The truth ofthis statement is being YER
flied every day Evidence is accumuIat-
ing that Kansas this year mas the great
est wheat crop in her history Henry
Schad came into the Eagle Office and told
a big story about the wheat crop. He
had just returned from a trip through the
townships of Delan0, Attica, Garden
Plain. Morton, Alton, Grand River, Sher-
man. Union, Park and Waco, and he
declared that he had never before seen
such wheat ia this county. He said the
farmers were safely estimating the yield
at twenty to twenty-five bushels to the
acre and the wheat tested sixty to sixty
three pounds 10 the bushel
President A. C. Jobes Of the National
Bank Of Commerce came in yesterday
from g trip over the Nulvane extension
and he declared that the wheat in that
section IS something unheard OF in any
former year. he said the wheat belt
seems 10 be extending further west. He
saw bOundless areas of wheat. some in
shock and some in which the harvesting
machines were at work Every where
the farmers told him that the yield would
be immense. lie said the grandest sight
he had ever seen was along this Mulvane
extension to away out beyond Harper
county. The big, shocks Of wheat were
near the railroad and in the distance they
appeared mere specks on the prairie and
the harvesters drawn by their big teams
looking majestic beside the road looked
ike little birds floating on the distant sea
of wheat He said away in the distance
was what seemed TO be freight train 8
outlined against the sky. These were
the steam threshers. The engine draw
Ing the separator with wagon behind.
Water tank and cook houses on wheels
and other fixtures OF the thresher's outfit
moving from one wheat field to another.
lie declared that people did not begin TO
realize the Importance of this wheat crop.
Mr.. A. P Butcher Of Haysvnle was in
The city yesterday on business and he
Knocked all Of the fellows out on big
wheat stories. He said his neighbor. E.
T. Riley, last fall sent to Kentucky for
some seed wheat, that some of his friends
recommended very highly. and he and his
son-in-law, James Nelson both sowed
their entire crop ofthis wheat and they
have threshed it out Mr. Butchers
wheat made thirty-nine bushels to the
acre and Mr. Nelson's thirty-six. He
also said the wheat Of the ordinary Nav
variety was turning out twenty-five bush
els per acre. He said most emphaticallv
that there had never before been such a
wheat crop raised in this section Of the
state