The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-28
Government Report Says Kan
sas Corn in Good Condition.
Has Made Good Growth and Has
Good Color.
RAIN is NOW NEEDED.
Tasseling and Silking in Many
Counties.
Damage by Hot Winds Confined
to Few Localities.

The following is from the weekly cli-
mate and crop report for Kansas. issued
today by Director Jennings of the
weather bureau:
GENERAL CONDITIONS.
A warm week. the average tempera-
ture in the eastern counties being de-
grees above normal and in the western
division 6 above. The temperature
reached its highest points Tuesday and
Wednesday and then moderated. The
week has been dry; light. scattered
showers have fallen in many counties.
but most of them proved to be but
traces Fogs occurred in Sheridan,
Trego and Stafford on the 24th-
EASTERN DIVISION.
The wheat harvest is over. and
threshing is progressing and though
yield is not as great as expected the
quality is good. Oat threshing devel-
ops a lighter yield than was anticipat-
ed. Corn has continued in good condi-
tion and in most counties has made q
good growth and has good color; it il
tasseling now, which is a critical condi-
tion. and needs rain as the surface
ground is baked hard: the only in1ury
to corn in this division was done by
webWormS. Grass continues fine and
haying is being pushed in many coun-
!
second crop of alfalfa is mostly in the
stack except in the northern counties,
where it is being cut. The potatoes
are fine in Shawnee. but are Door in
Allen. Flax cutting is being pushed in
Coffey, and threshing has begun in Linn
where 1T is turning out well. Apples
are growing finely in the southern part
of Shawnee and are a fair crop in
Cherokee, but are being troubled with
scab in Coffey; the early are being mar
keted in Riley but the yield is small.
Blackberries are ripe in the central and
northern counties and are a fine crop.
Flowing for fall wheat is progressing
in Chautauqua and has begun in Wyan~
dotte. while in Shawnee the oat stubble
is being plowed up and put in Kaffir
corn. The webworm is injuring the
sweet potato plants in Pottawatomie
Atchison-Corn needs rain; over half
the timothy is in stack. and about one
fourth of the oats; the ground is becom-
ing hard and dry; large crop of black
/ berries has nearly all ripened.
! BOurbon-Corn is not suffering for
ram ana Is growing well; prairie hay is
being cut and saved in fine condition.
| Brown-Corn will soon need rain; IL
! is in fair condition. but much of the
| early planted is tasseling low; thrashing
in progress; wheat only fair crop; oats
are not yielding as well as expected.
and are light; a fine crop of tame hay
! has been secured.
Chase-Corn is showing the effects of
continued dry, hot weather; second crop
/ OI dlldlId mostly cut except the seed
crop; farmers ready to begin cutting
prairie hay; gardens are dried up.
Chautauqua-Corn needs rain, some
of it very badly; good second crop Of
plowed; Kaffir corn is doing well con-
sidering the drouth; many are still
tending their corn.
Cherokee-Corn being rapidly cleaned
and making good growth; wheat is a
light crop; oats crop ranges from poor
to very good; hay is good crop; apples
are a fair crop.
/ Coffey-Corn needs rain; cultivating
/ is mostly done; worms have taken some
of the late planting threshing and hay
making good progress; hay crop very
fine; fax cutting is being pushed; ap-
Piles badly affected by scab.
Crawford-Corn beginning to need
rain; threshing progressing rapidly:
wheat is a fair crop; oats poor; hay and
pastures good.
Greenwood-Pastures and meadows
getting dry: corn not doing well; early
planted is shooting; rain needed.
! Jackson-Good weather for having:
corn needs rain badly; much early corn
is tasseling very short, and the late
plating grows slowly and is spindling.
Johnson-Corn growing rapidly: wheat
that has been thrashed shows an aver
age yield, both as to quality and guam
tity.
Leavenworth-Whe thrashing be-
gun; oats harvest ready; corn growing
good condition.; blackberries ripe.
Linn-Corn is beginning to need rain:
a fine week for putting up hay, which is
a good crop; oats being thrashed and
yielding very light; some fax thrashed;
it is turning out well.
| Marshall-Wheat thrashing begun;
yield good, quality only fair; second
cutting of alfalfa and blue grass in
progress. and the crops are good; pas
lures are good and stock water plenti-
full; potatoes and gardens are drying
up.
Montgomery-Wh and oats not
thrashed: have been stacked: corn and
other cultivated crops are doing well
but need rain; tame hay has been har-
| vested, and some prairie hay put up,
but it is too green yet.
Pottawatomie-Corn Is suffering for
rain: a web-worm is doing much dam
age to late planted corn and sweet po-
Riley.-The ground is in good condi-
ton and both early and late corn are
doing we'll; wheat that has been
| thrashed is not as good as expected; :;
wheat, oats and alfalfa harvested in
good condition: large crop of black
berries being picked; a few early apples
being marketed; small yield of sweet
potatoes looked for.
is growing rapidly; some of the late
planting needs rain; thrashing wheat
and oats; some are planting oats ground
to Kafir-corn; meadows and pastures
fine, and cattle doing we'll; potatoes very
good; apples growing well.
| Woodson.-Good weather for haying
and thrashing; wheat is a fair crop:
corn is doing well but begins to need
rain.
l. Wyandotte.-Corn needing rain badly;
pastures drying up; fall plowing begun;
ground dry and hard.
1 MIDDLE DIVISION.
Winter wheat harvest is over and
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