Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1903-08-14
A BIG wheat CROP.
Rep0rto from Our Correspondents
Indicate over 90 Million Bushels
Greatest Crop Ever Raised In Any State
--Nesr!y 60 per cent In tho Western
HaN--M0st OF tho Grain Is OF
The Worry Finest Quality.

TOPEKA, KAS. Especially The
threshing of the Kansas wheat crop
has progressed far enough to show
that the total yield will not fall far
short of 100,000,000 bushels. Replies
to two hundred inquiries sent out
asking millers and grain dealers for
reports as to the actual thrashing
results, suggest a total Of 93,426,0OO
bushels. Comparatively little thresh-
ing has been done in the western part
of the state, where the largest crop
was raised, and later reports may raise
the figures closer to 100,000,000 bush.
els. The average yield for the whole
state, as indicated by the reports re-
received is 1886 bushels.
1t is the biggest wheat crop ever
raised by Kansas or any other state.
The largest crop prior to this years
was 80 $1,000 bushels in 1901, and the
next to that, 77,339,O00 bushels in
1900.
Nearly 60 per cent Of this great
wheat crop-the largest in the states
history-is in the western half of the
state. The estimated yield in the coun-
ties west Of the center is 1915 bushels
per acre, while the average for the
counties in the eastern half is 1886
bushels.
The big western wheat counties re-
port many fields yielding 80 to 40 BUSH
els per acre and comparatively few
below Is bushels, the latter being on
fields carelessly planted on stubble
land.
Thirty-four counties raised over
million bushels each, and four more
final returns may place them in the
million-bushel class.
The frequent estimates of moder-
ate wheat crop in Kansas this year
haze arisen from the fact that wheat
was badly damaged in few of the
important counties and yielded poorly
in most o. the unimportant counties
in the esatern part of the state. For
example, Dickinson county reports
only IL bushels per acre, Harvey coun-
tty produced only bushels to the
acre, Mcpherson 10, Marion 9, Rice IA,
Salina 10. Sedgwick -, and Sumner
IL. All these are counties that usually
have high average yields, but this
year, on account of Hessian fly dam
age, or because of excessive rains, or
in some cases on account of short
dry spell at critical time, they fell
short this year.
The quality of the crop is generally
very fine in the WESTERN half of the
state. Most of the wheat in that Sec
ton will be No. 2. In some of the big
central counties, on the other hand,
there is much thin, lightweight grain.
Mcpherson, Mitchell and Ottawa
counties report very little No. 2 wheat
Dickinson, Cloud and Rice correspond
ents think one-third will grade No. 2;
Harvey county, with the lowest aver
age yield, reports nearly all the crop
No. 2; "a most unusual circumstance
small yield and fine quality" re-
marks one correspondent. Over half
the entire crop is No. 2 wheat. Some
big southern and western counties re-
port all No. 2. Even lightweight wheat |
is of good milling quality and excellent
color.
The reports upon which the esti-
mate of the crop is based are believed |
to be from the most reliable men that |
could be chosen in their respective
localities.
The following table gives the area, |
estimated yield per acre and crop of
each county: