The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-13
MAY BE STILL HIGHER
As 1t Stands the Record Has No
Parallel.
Barton the Banner County With
Over 100000 Bushels.
Condition of Corn Is Something
of a Puzzle.


pecially to wheat and corn. 1t says:
Tabulated returns of assessors for
each of the los counties in the state.
save Wyandotte. show the total winter
wheat area this year to be 5,911, 0S1
acres, and reports from threshers, mil
lers, growers and others, indicate that
the yield for the entire area sown will
average slightly more than 1872 bushels
per acre, or a total for the state of 3d.
10000 bushels, but of course these pre-
liminary figures are subject to revision
later in the year when threshing is COM
pleted. As the ripening of the grain and
harvest were somewhat delayed by thu
continuous cool, wet weather, threshing
likewise was begun much later than US
ual but is rapidly progressing now, al
though none has been done in many
neighborhoods, and reports of yields are
quite variable. This years total produc-
ton is greater by Sc per cent or 35,946,
200 bushels, than that of 1902 and sur
passes even the 1901 yield of 90.045,514
bushels, making the bulkiest crop in
Kansas history No state has ever even
equaled the total Kansas wheat pro-
duction of 1900, according to the United
State department of agriculture, and
this years yield is greater than that of
1900 by about IS per cent, and 1901 was
more than 1900 by lbs per cent. In
these three years Kansas raised winter
wheat aggregating a total of 257,000,00
bushels, or an average of 85,910,000 bush
els for each.
The growers estimates indicate that
the larger yields this year are being
produced by the more westerly coun-
ties, and especially in the northwest
quarter of the state, as well as by many
of the so-called wheat belt counties. 1t
is also notable that several of the US
ually foremost wheat producing coun-
ties. along with some or the more SOUTH
eastern counties are credited with COM
paratively small yields. The lowest av-
erage yields are Z, Z, 8, s, 8, 8, in Chero-
kee, Labette, Montgomery, Chautauqua,
Crawford and Wilson counties respec-
lively, and mong the highest are Rush
q, Granham q, Norton q, Decatur q
and Ness 20. One county (Barton) has
slightly over 100000 bushels, followed
by, yet remotely, Rush with 3,879,040
and Sumner 3,4S6,7S0 bushels. Thirty
five counties, each having one million
or more bushels, produced 72,478, 264
bushels. or SO3 per cent of the 1903 crop.
Of the 81 counties reporting increases
in acreage over last year, 80 lie west Oh
the 9Sth meridian, Norton leading with
a gain of 33. 745 acres. Sumner. with
BIG, $50 acres, again has the largest total
wheat area of any county; Barton next
with 27O503 acres while Grant and
Stanton report none.
The grain has been saved in good
condition, and its quality is unanimous
ly pronounced medium to extra good,
even where average yields seem lowest
the whole crop being understandable
for milling. Late rains temporarily IN
terrupted threshing, but have put the
ground in the best of condition for fail
blowing.
According to assessors returns this
years total area of corn is 6.521. 1913
acres. or less than the 1902 area by
about 100000 acres, or 81 per cent, and
the general average condition for the
states entire area is 20. Counties re-
porting increases in their corn areas
virtually are all east of a line drawn
southeast from the west boundary of
Smith to Chautauqua county, and may
suggest that the desire recently mani
fest in parts of this section to sow
wheat is somewhat abating and that
many of the counties in the properly
corn territory are again assuming
more nearly normal corn areas. Six
adjoining counties in the northern tier
have the largest corn areas, as fol-
lows: Marshall, POS. 759 acres; Nemaha,
2O6, OILS; Jewell, 2O2, 1888; Washington, 49,,
52S; Republic. 1913, 5S1, and Smith, 1885,
293 acres.
owing to the different sorts and
paintings the prospects are widely va
RANT. and in some communities the
corn situation seems most complex.
Recent timely abundance of moisture
and favOrab BILE weather. however, have
given impetus to it's growth and
healthy development, and greatly ben
eft all paintings. Where cultivation has
been neglected, usually poorest condi-
tions are found and weeds have been
most aggressive. Generally it is re-
ported that early corn is safely ad-
vanced and that planted later is rapidly
responding to the now favoring condi-
tions-a large proportion promising
we'll Conditions on all paintings in the
flooded districts average &c, and the
consensus of correspondents reports in
such territory rate the prospect for
good crop as medium" 1t is note
worthy also that the highest conditions
reported for corn are in the northwest
erly counties, to wit: Rocks, 100; Mitch
ell. SO; Rush, 9S; Jewell, 50; Thomas, 50;
Lincoln. 90; Osborne, 81; Decatur, 81;
and Cloud, Lane, Scott, Cheyenne.
Phillips and Smith each 30, while the
least promising prospects seem to be
in the counties constituting the western
two thirds of the southern third of the
state.
The quantity of old corn found by
assessors in farmers hands March L
was 1858, 264 bushels, against 1924, 942
in 1902. Wheat on hand. 4.6se.473 BUSH
els; or hand last year. 1864, $50 bushels.
The following table gives by coun-
ties, the total yield of winter wheat as
estimated by correspondents, and the
acreage of corn in each: