The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-09
KANSAS RAISED IT
Agricultural, Horticultural and
Live Stock Values.
YEAR is PROSPEROUS ONE
Sedgwick Among the Counties
Yielding 100000 Bushels

1lelull'S L,UUUyUOO OuoiiCio
Topeka. Kan, Dec. ST. d. CobIrn, of
the Kansas department of agriculture,
says: The crop bulletin OF the Kansas
board of agriculture for the present year,
showing final returns of the states agri-
cultural, horticultural and live stock pro-
ducts and their home values, together
with the numbers and values of live stock
for 1909, is issued today.
Winner and Spring Wheat-Total yield,
81, Oil, 902 bushels, worth $50. 426, 355.55. The
winter wheat yield is greater by 3,043,9l2
bushels, or 3.3 per cent, than its growers
and threshermen estimated at the close
of harvest and amounts TO 93,3l3,912 bush
els, with value of So, co., COL.
Contrary 10 the prevailing tendency of
later years, the area in spring wheat has
Increased (over IA per cent?, making
total for the state of - 500 acres, and its
average yield per acre was far above
normal, aggregating 1890 bushels, val
ued at 1894 1880. Areas of consequence
ale invariably CJDllIftu u tit uOl tilNSSb-
ern counties.
With the records of the state board OF
agriculture for authority, this years
yield of wheat is the greatest produced
by Kansas. and in the past four years
Kansas has raised three crops each OF
which has the distinction of being bulk
ier than the production of any other
state Further, it is interesting to note
that in the past thirteen years Kansas
has raised eight crops averaging over
T0000O00 bushels each and aGgregaung
b61 270,14S bushels, or an amount more
than an average years output for the
whole United States. These eight years
and their Yields according TO rank are:
1909 "a OIL 902 1898. ....... so 1S0,6ol
1861 ..... so. 333, 035 1891. .-.....o S, 550,oo3
1900 1885, 091 1902. 81. e4s,2S6
1892 ...... "A .53S ,906 1897. al Uo,eui
This years yield is Y per cent greater
than that of 1862; per cent more tnah
the 1901 crop, and ZIG per cent larger
than in 1900
Later returns substantiate the earlier
estimates Of the boards correspondents
that the larger yields per acre this year
were in the more westerly counties, ana
especially in the northwest quarter OF
the state. Cove reporting an average OF
rs bushels (the highesD, followed by De-
catur with % bushels, Lane "a, Graham
%. Ness %, Norton D. Rawlns q, and
Kiowa. Osborne, Phillips and Rocks each
20 bushels.
Counties having 1000 bushels or more
each. and aggregating slightly over 90
per cent of the years crop, with their
Yields. in order of their rank, are:
Barton ''''1'oo''iio
Sumner Observation-Disclosures. ,l3S
Rush ........--.-.---.-..-.. fSl' lob
Stafford Observation-Disclosures. 81 ,OiS
Ellis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. --.oloo'oo7
Reno ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 'ol'S $50
Rocks .-'o'e'SS4
Osborne ........-...-..--.--....... l''ozo
Harper OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES -Z'5'S'S-o
Pratt . 1910
Rice OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 22l2'hf
Mitchell 49,, 932
kingman ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .2l42'oo4
Sedgwick ,O15
Decatur ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 40
The area reported as probably sown for
next wears crop is 5,671,S70 acres, or less
by per cent, sowing in many counties
being finished much later than usual.
majority of the counties, 6S, report the
same or increased acreages, but the 4
returning decreases include many or
those which generally have had the larger
areas. These returns also present curl
Gus and notable coincident in that the
counties this year producing the highest
average yields per acre almost unani-
mously report the greatest decreases.
which is presumably largely on account
of lack of sufficient available labor after
arrest to readily handle the unusually
prodigious crop in those counties and
clear the fields in time for the new seed
lrg.
on the whole, soil and weather condi-
tions were quite favorable for sowing.
the plants termination and growth have
been satisfactory in most localities, and
the present general average is 90.S per
cent-l00 representing a good stand and
wholesome condition. AS usual, the grow
ing wheat affords abundant luNuriant
grazing for live stock.
Evidences Of Hessian flies have noe en-
tireiy disappeared but their presence
seems less noticeable the last fall than
in the one preceding. judging from the
infrequent reference 10 this pest by cor
respondents. No other insect is men,
toned
Corn.-Ths years corn crop from the
beginning has proved an enigma and the
board has not before made an approx
nation nor in any wise predicted or sug
gested as to its yield. The crop. after the
most diiigent inquiry and searching in
NestiSation is from its growers. huskers
and weighers, found To be 169 $50 76s bush
els. from 6,5257U acres and worth So,
07S.l4l.s7. The area is 46t.9S7 acres less. or
So per cent. than last year. and the ag-
sregate yield is lower by 32o00.e0 bush
els or 70 per cent
The variant prospects of the different
sorts and paintings as previously inGi-
Gated by the reports Of the boards cor
respondents throughout the growing sea-