The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-30
WILL BEAT ALL.
Kansas Wheat Crop Exceeds
the Expectations.
Last Years Record Breaker Is
Distanced.
HARVEST FULL BLAST.
Ont Of 6,O34,4ss Acres, Only
$4,000 Won't Be Cut.
Most of This Is In the Flooded
Districts.
REPORT BY COUNTIES.
Detailed Figures Show Acreage
and Condition.
Mr.. COburn's Official Report Is
Most Satisfying.
Ont of 6,O34,422 Acres, Only
$4,000 Won't Be Cut.
Most of This Is In the Flooded
Districts.
REPORT BY COUNTIES.
Detailed Figures Show Acreage
and Condition.
Mr.. COburn's Official Report Is
Most Satisfying.

Official returns received BY the state
board of agriculture state that Kansas
this year has. in spite CT floods and ex-
cessive rainfall the biggest and best
wheat crop in its whole history
Corn. however is IN bad condition.
and crops in the river bottoms are
mostly ruined
The following is the report. issued
Monday afternoon at $50 by Secretaey
F d Coburn:
Reports Of correspondents from wen
nigh every township in Kansas to the
state board of agriculture relating to
the growing crops. based on conditions
existing June 20, summarized, indicate
that the area of winter wheat that viii
be harvested aggregates 5.7O9 ass acres.
or 94.6 per cent of the total area sown.
and the general average condition Of
this or the eve of harvest is Ss pcr
cent, calling 100 an entirely satisfac-
tory condition. Besides rating high in
the more prominent wheat producers
many counties with lesser acreages re-
port correspondingly high average
thus indicating that wherever there j.
wheat to harvest its condition is quite
uniformly excellent. At approximately
the same stage in the plants develop
ment that year, the general average
condition of the states winter wheat
in 1901 was 50. on 5.24s.547 acres. which
bore the largest crop in the states his
tory. This years area that viii be
harvested. much Of which is now cut
/ is greater, and its average condition
seven points higher Weather condi~
tons for the past ten days have been
favorable for its rapid reaping- No
threshing as yet has been done. and il
is too early 10 definitely determine
rtrr.a
and there the heads are reported as
well developed and filed. Cool we1
weather delayed ripening. and TO tha-
extent harvest is correspondingly late
/ beginning in some of the more southern
counties only last week. while the har-
vest for the state is three to four weeks
/ backward.
Conspicuous for their high conditions
are Scott county, 105 per cent. De-
catur, 103 Lane 102; Phillips. 10-f
Sheridan 102. Smith 102: and rinnev
Greeley, Meade. Ness Norton Rawliu-.
and Rocks, each. 100. Twenty counties
in the wheat belt sO-called. averag-
/ 81 per cent on 3.OS7. .O10 acres. OF over 80
per cent. of the total area to be har~
vested.
1t is noteworthy that adjoining coun.
ties, comprising slightly more than the
northwestern quarter of the state cx-
cepting three or four bordering on Colo
+ RADIO. present a most promising show
+ ing, twelve reporting average conditions
OF 100 to l03 and ranging from that to
go in Jewell and Ellsworth
+ Assessors returns of acreage from s.
counties bear out the estimate OF the
+ boards correspondents last fall that the
area of Writer wheat SoWn then was 3
to per cent less than that from which
/ the 1902 crop was taken and these Off
cial figures substituted for the prelirnin-
airy estimates in their respective coun-
i ties make the states total area sosru
i 6,03l, 422 acres. reporting earlier in the
season. the prospect was represented as
] 2 Frrf
! pondents now say that "a Der cent or
/ 321 ,937 acres, has been so damage from
various causes that it viii not he cut
\ BY far the greater part of this is in the
! flooded districts. and the injury wrought
+ in most instances is directly charged to
high water and continuous excessive
! Wetness, increased in some lOca iities hy
rust, Hessian fly. and weeds. the latter
/ two particularly causing A considera bic
/ proportion of the reported damage. es-
pecally in fields where seed was s0vvn
on stubble ground With few exceptions.
counties reporting the largest losses
! from these sources and lowest condi-
/ tions are those traversed by the Kan
sas river and ranging from Saline on
the west to the east and south boun-
daries, Cherokee in the extreme south
eastern corner of the state reporting the
+ lowest condition, 55. followed BY her
neighbOrs, raWfOrd with So MOntEOIn-
cry s. Labette 66. Neosho &C. and VIII
son 7O-the other counties in this sec
tion ranging from that to 90 in osage.
AS a whole, however, it would seem that
/ Kansas is reaping a prodigiOus wheat
crop, and every energy is now bending
to safely place it in shock and stack
The spring wheat area is compare
lively small and confined principally TO
the northwestern counties. as usual, and
I its general average condition is 95
CORN.
The situation IS to corn has been most
| complicated. Much of that planted ear
4 ly, probably SO per cent. was replanted.
1 necessitated by the supera bundant rain
fall washing out of seed in places, too
deep covering and rotting in others, and
weeds where too wet to cultivate. That
of the first planting which withstood
adversity and has been properly cuiti-
waited is well advanced and prospering-
on account of the almost incessaHt
rainfall however. all farm work has
been much delayed. and by far the
/ greater part of the corn was planted
/ late (mainly with listers), being finished
only within the past week Correspond
ents estimate the total area planted to
be 6.374 ,335 acres. which IS less than last
year by SIC, ,429 acres. or 9 per cent. The
4 condition for the entire state is 733 per
/ cent. Recent warm. sunshiny weather.
favorable to growth and cultivation,
has put the ground in excellent tilth.
and late planted seed promptly germin-
ated AS the present report is based on