The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-19
INCREASE OF
TEN PER CENT
In the Wheat Acreage of Kan
Sas This Year.
PLANTS ARE LOOKING FINE
According to Report Furnished
by Geo. M. Randall.

There is growing in Kansas at the
present time g. 900 acres of wheat. &C
cording to the report compiled BY Geo.
NJ. Randall, secretary of the Southern
Kansas Mnlers club. Mr.. Randall is
employed by the millers of southern
Kansas to furnish them with reliable in
formation concerning the wheat crop
of this state and northern Oklahoma
the sections from which they draw most
of their supplies. Mr.. Randall travels a
great deal and has in each county seat
or milling center a reliable correspond
! ent. Mr. Randall has held this position
/ some two years. and his forces are well
! organized and his estimates are taken as
facts by the millers OF southern Kansas
and also in the east. where Kansas hard
wheat is used in milling
For the past few days Mr.. Randall has
| been compiling the figures sent him by
his correspondents. and from the data
! at hand believes that the acreage of Kan
sas wheat fields has Increased ten per
cent over former years. II based his
! figures on the returns made by canvas
sers sent out for this especial purpose
This increase in acreage means under fair
crop conditions some ten million bushels
The greater part of this increase he says
is found in the central-western part Of
the state. Within the last year gfreaI
deal of raw land in the west has been
broken and last fall was SoWn to wheat.
Within the last month Mr.. Randall has
visited every county in central and west
ern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, and
/ in making his monthly report TO the
millers he states that never in the last
fen has rho wheat fields
been better prepaid for wintr than at this
time. He is a practical miller and also
a farmer, and his opinions have much
weight with the millers and grain deal
ers During the fall the wheat grew rap
idly, there was a good stand and the soil
was in first class condition AT seeding
time. The wheat attained a good growth
before cold weather set in and there Is
no danger of freezing the roots. In SOME
localities he found traces of Hessian
fly. but only in a slight degree. and he
expects no serious results from the pests
as they appeared only in few places.
AT this time" said Mr.. Randall yes
terday. there has been no better pros
pect for an enormous wheat crop next
season in the past ten years. The wheat
has had a good gdowth this fall. the
soil was in the best of condition at time
OF seeding and the copious rains of the
late fall, together with the warm Wea-
Their, made the plants large and healthy.
The three inches of snow last Sunday
was distributed evenly over the fields
and when it melted the water ran into
the ground and did not run off as il
would if the ground had been frozen.
The wheat is in such condition at pres
ent that a winter of most unprecedented
severity would not injure it to any ex-
tent. and the growers and milleiS
throughout this section believe that Kan
sas win produce large an amount 81
wheat next summer as she did two years
ago. The prospects now are for as large
yield per acre. if not larger as the
wheat is in better condition this year
than two years ago."
Wright wrongs no man. Wright's old
fashioned buckwheat -four is pure.