The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1902-11-28

A Surprise in Secretary Coburn's
Figures ON the Amount and Value
OF Crops of Kansas for 1902.

cultural and live stock production.
The aggregate value of farm prod
uctS and live stock reaches the enor
nous sum of $404, 25S, $3.50, an increase
of SIS, 965, 946 over last year. These
figures were given out by Secretary
Coburn, of the Kansas agricultural
department. The amount and value
of the crops for 1902 are as follows:
Winter and spring wheat, bushels,
54,649, 236; value, $29, 139, 490.17.
Corn, bushels, POI, 1867, 1O2; value,
Sill, 6O3, 576.3s.
Oats. bushels, s2,s66,114; value, So
564, 254.35.
Rye, bushels, s,72s,2s6; value, ST.
5s4,321.31.
: Barley, bushels, e,1ss,s7s; value,
SS01 ,3S1.69.
Buckwheat,. bushels, AFRO; value.
s2,216.
Irish and sweet potatoes, bushels,
$780, value, $3,471, 344.12.
Castor beans, bushels, 4,4O0; value,
$500.
Cotton, pounds, 136,OO5; value, So
520.35.
Flax, bushels 1,427,s75; value, ST.
1850.
Hemp, pounds, 10000; value, $6.10.
Tobacco, pounds, $3.50; value, ST.
SIS.
Broom corn, pounds, 16,5s4,2O5;
value, $495, 64O15.
Millet and Hungarian, tons, 400, 100;
value, $1,445,415.
Sorghum for strip, gallons, 1,792,-
200; value, s663,114.
, Sorghum, kaffir corn, Milo maize
and Jerusalem corn for forage, value,
$12,73S,694.
Tame hay, 1884 tons; value, s4,-
$4,000.
Prairie Hay, s2o,637 tons; value, 3d.
2s2, 54S.
Wool clip, 647,427 pounds; value,
$97, 114.O5.
Cheese, butter and milk, value, S.
412,217.65.
Poultry and eggs sold, value, So
7O6,352.
Animals slaughtered or sold for
slaughter, value, $51 ,346,5s9.
Horticultural and garden products
and wine, value, $1,995. 55O.50.
Honey and beeswax, 4O3, 155 pounds;
value, $50, 631.2O.
Wool marketed, value, $1S6, $50.
Total value, $249, 150,91s.
Numbers and values of live stock:
Horses, 81, 1914; value, $51 ,13O, 422.
Mules and asses, 1851; value, Sc
$685.
Mich cows, 1874; value, $23, 1885,
800.
Other cattle, 42,555,sOo; value, $751;.
$4,000.
Sheep, 136,753; value, $41o,259.
Swine, 1927, 1902; value, $11, 775, 241.5o
Total value, $155,107, 412.
Grand total, $404, 25s, 1881.
The net increase in value of this
years agricultural productions over
that of 1901 is $53,s96, 266, and of live
stock $2,069,6sO, or a total net in
crease for the year of $55,965,946, OF
1907 per cent. In two years the in.
crease in value of agricultural pro
auctions has been SCI, 1854, 512, and OF
live stock $11,649, $50. The total in
crease over the values of three years
before amounts to SOL ,352,952.
The quantity of old corn in farm
ers' hands on March 1 was 7,724,942
bushels. The year before it was
S5,121, 1899 bushels, and two years be-
fore 1925, 667 bushels.
The quantity of old wheat in farm
ers' hands on March 1 was 1864, 595
bushels; the year previous, 7,996,555
bushels, and two years previous, A.
S24, 1928 bushels.
The yield of winter wheat was "a :
$780, $3.50 bushels. It's home value is
given at S2s, 9s3, 943.6O. The area sown,
as returned by township assessors in
March, was 6,254,474 acres. The area
reported as probably sown for next
years crop is 6,o20,1 acres, being a
decrease of 234,644 acres, or 81 per
cent. below last years sowing, which
was much the largest ever reported
The shrinkage in spring wheat SOW
ing so conspicuous annually of late
years is again strikingly in evidence,
this wear with but 1929 acres, and a
Weld of 325,397 bushels, worth 1885,
546.57.
The corn area of 6,990,764 acres
(which includes the $780, 500 acres re-
ported by assessors. plus 1,071,174
acres of the plowed-up wheat land
stated by correspondents as having
been planted in corn), yielded 2o1,-
367,1O2 bushels, worth s111,6o3. 576.Ss
The yield of oats is nearly 60 per
cent. greater than last years, or 3d.
e66, ia bushels, and the largest since
1892. The yield on the considerably
diminished area, 60,61S acres, was
s,193, 632 bushels, the largest and best
crop by far since 1889, with a value OF
81 136 S5671