The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-01
Governor Estimates the Kansas
Crop at 20 Per Cent.
This Will Be, He Thinks, About
I9O,OOO,OOO Bushels.
THE PROSPECT is COOL
Has Cheering Words for the
Cattle Men.
Says That Conditions Were
Never Better Than Now.

Governor Bailey believes that Kansas
will have about seventy per cent of a
full corn crop. He bases this opinion
upon what he has seen and heard of it
as he has been travelling over the state.
Being a big corn raiser himself the
governor naturally observes and in
quires about such things.
A full corn crop, according to Cover
nor Bailey's idea, is well up toward the
largest crop the state has raised in the
past. In 1889 Kansas produced 273, 3,OOO
900 bushels. Seventy percent of this
would be something like 100, 900, 900
bushels, and Governor Bailey believes
the crop this year will be we'll up to-
wards that figure.
Il should say a a guess that Kansas
will have seventy per cent of a full
corn crop this year" said the governor
when asked about it. I'm some local
tiles the crop is not as good as in 9TH
ers, but it is pretty fair over the state
as a whole. Now up in Jewell and
Smith counties they have never had
such a crop as they have this year. I
know a good deal about those counties
and what they have done in the past.
In the northeast part of the state 1
think the crop will lack considerable
of being a full crop, but still it is pretty
good
How about your own crop, COVER
nor?' he was asked.
We'll. L am not Dragging any about
it, and in fact 1 have not been up to
my farm for quite awhile, but the re-
ports / get from there say that some
of my corn will make rs bushels to the
acre.
In connection with his other farming
operations Governor Bailey generally
feeds a considerable number of cattle
and he keeps close watch of the condi-
tions of the, stock market. In discuss
ing the outlook for cattle feeders this
fall he said:
There are some pessimists in the cat
tie business who are Of the opinion that
the coming winter is going to be bad
one in which to- feed cattle. | have
watched conditions for years and [ be-
Iieve that this is a better time to feed
than many of the years we have had
recently, and it is great deal better
than last year, when a great many cat
tie were fed in the state. 1t is said
that the price of feed will be higher.
but those who say this do not take into
considera ton the fact that stock cattle
are about $1.25 hundred less. On
thousand pound steer the buyer makes
a saving of $3.50. 1t takes about IS
pose he has to pay ten cents a bushel
more for his corn than he did last year,
that only makes $3.50 more for fatten-
ing the steer, so that ne still has a
profit of $5 head more than he did be
fore considering the original cost of the
steer. Conditions look better to me for
cattle feeding than they have for some
time
What do you think of the general
financial condition of the state?'
Il believe Kansas is more independent
of financial conditions in the eastern
money centers than any other state i'll
the Union" said Governor Bailey. The
state is so prosperous that it can afford
to be almost Indifferent to financial de-
pressions in Wall street. The state as [.
whole is more prosperous than II has
ever been. The only portions which are
not in better financial condition than
ever before are the river valleys that
suffered from the floods. and they are
merely shoestrings of misfortune on the
map of plenty.
Several years ago Kansas would have
suffered greatly by the depressed con-
ditions now existing in Wall street, but
now the people know that there is sucn
a depression only through the newspa
pers when they read about it. Money is
plenty in the state and it is easy TO get,
and business here will be absolutely un-
affected by a tightness in eastern money
markets l have been over the state
great deal during the last summer and
I have never seen the people SO pros
perous."