The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-09
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Value of Kansas Crop Exceeds
Wheat Five Million Dollars.
Still Production Is Much Below
the Normal.
IN THE BIG Sc BELT.''
Jewell Is Easily the Banner
County of State.
How the Crop of 1903 Was
Distributed.

While Kansas is prominently the
greatest wheat state in the world, corn
IS really the great Kansas crop, Kan
sans like to call the attention of the
world to the fact that in 1909 this state
produced more wheat than any other
state ever produced in all history, and
that twice since that time, in 1901 and
in 1903. she has broken her own rec
ord, pushing 1t each time little higher.
But as a matter of fact, while the Kan
sas corn crop this year is not a record
breaker by any means, its value is
nearly five million dollars more than
that of the record breaking wheat crop.
The value of the Kansas wheat crop
this year, according to the figures of
the state board of agriculture, is $751;
426, 1856, while the value of the corn
crop is So, O7S, 141.07.
While corn is generally raised over
the greater portion of Kansas, and is
the staple crop in practically every
county in the eastern half of the state,
the real corn belt of Kansas are the
counties in the north central portion
of the state. Here are not only the big
acreages but also the big yields per
acre. In general the northern tier of
counties from the Missouri river west
t6 Decatur county, almost to the Col
the central ones surpass any others,
and those Immediately south of these
central northern counties are included
with these.
The area of the largest yields this
year is included in the locality begin
ming with washington county, running
west to Smith. southwest to Rocks.
southeast including Russell, east in
Guiding Saline. skipping Dickinson but
including Geary, north including Riley
to Washington. Every county within
this area reports more than thirty
bushels per acre. Cloud and Mitchell
counties. in the exact center of this
district, report the largest yields, 80
and IS bushels per acre respectively.
DOniphan and WyandOtte counties also
report a yield of 80 bushels per acre,
and were it not for their limited size
and consequent small acreage they
would be big corn counties. No other
counties outside of this belt report as
much as th4rty-one bushels per acre.
but Brown, Ellsworth, Pottawatomie
and Chase report thirty bushels.
The corn belt counties and their av-
eraga yield per acre are as follows:
Thirty-nine bushels-Cloud.
Thirty-eight bushels-Mitchell.
Thirty-seven Unsatisfactory.
Thirty-six bushels-Smith.
Thirty-f1ve bushels-Ottawa, Riley,
Rocks, Doniphan, Wyandotte.
Thirty-four bushels Washington and
Osborne.
Thirty-three bushels = Clay and
Jewell.
Thirty-two bushels-Republic, Lin
coin and Saline
Thirty-one .bushels-Russell
The larges. corn acreages, too, are in
these northern counties. Three of
them run above two hundred thousand
acres each They are:
Marshall, POS, 757.
Nemaha 20e.015
Jewell. 202, $685.
Governor Bailey says that he has
been pretty we'll over the corn belt of
the United States and that he consid-
ers the greatest corn country of all lies
in southwestern Iowa, northwestern
Missouri, northeastern Kansas, and
southeastern Nebraska Illinois is the