The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-15
WHEAT bND CORN
Ninety Million Bushels Is Now
the Kansas Estimate.
WESTERN COUNTIES LEAD
Grain Has Been Harvested in
Good Condition.

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Board Of Agriculture today issues a crop
bulletin devoted especially to wheat and
corn. 1t says:
Tabulated returns of assessors for each
of the 105 counties in the state. save
Wyandotte show the total winter wheat
area this year TO be 5,9l1, 0Si acres, and
reports from threshers. millers. growers
and others indicate that the yield for
the entire area sown will average slightly
more than 152 bushels per acre, or a
total for the state of 90270,0o0 bushels,
but Of course these preliminary figures
are subject to revision later in the year,
when threshing is ompleted- AS the rip
ening of the grain and harvest were some
what delayed by the continuous cool, wet
weather, threshing likewise was begun
much later than usual, but is rapidly pro-
crossing now, although none has been
done in many neighborhoods yet. and
reports of yields are quite variable This
years total production is greater by Go
per cent, or 80 e46.2Oo bushels, than that
of 1862, and surpasses even the 1901 yield
of 90e45 5l4 bushels. making the bulkiest
crop in Kansas history. No state has
ever even equalled the total Kansas
wheat production of 1900, according TO
the UnIued States department of agricul-
ture, and this years yield is greater than
that Of 1900 by about Is per cent, and 1901
is more by 17.5 per cent. In these three
years Kansas raised winter wheat aggre-
eating a total of 257, 1000 900 bushels, or an
average of 81. 600 bushels for each.
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the larger yields this year are being pro-
duced by the more westerly counties, and
especially in the northwest quarter Of the
state, as we'll as by many of the so-called
wheat belt counties. 1t is also notable
that several of the usually foremost
wheat producing counties, along with
some of the more southeastern counties,
are credited with comparatively small
yields The lowest average yields are
Z, Z, s, s, s, s, in Cherokee, Labette, Mont
gomery, Chautauqua, Crawford and Will
son counties respectively, and among the
highest are Rush, 81; Graham, p; Nor
ton, 81; Decatur, q, and Ness, 20. One
county (Barton) has slightly over $780,
600 bushels, followed by, yet remotely,
Rush with 1873 04O, and Sumner 3,4s6, $50
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one million or more bushels, produced
z. AIS, 2e4 bushels, or S0.3 per cent of the
1903 crop.
OF the thirty-two counties reporting in
creases in acreage over last year thirty
lie west of the ninety-eighth meridian,
Norton leading with a gain of 80, 745 acres.
Sumner, with ZIG, $50 acres again has the
largest total wheat area of any county;
Barton next with go, sos acres, while
Grant and Stanton report none.
The grain has been saved in good con-
dition and its quality is unanimously pro-
nounced medium to extra good, even
where average yields seem lowest-the
whole crop being merchantable for mill
ing Late rains temporarily interrupted
threshing, but have put the ground in
the best Of condition for fall blowing.
According to assessors returns this
years total area of corn is 6521, 1893 acres.
or less than the 1902 area by about 49,
900 acres, or 81 per cent, and the gen.
erai aerage condition for the states en-
tire area Is 20. Counties reporting in
creases in their corn areas virtually are
all east of a line drawn southeast from
the west boundary of Smith to Chautau-
qua county and may suggest that the
desire recently manifest in parts of this
section to sow wheat is somewhat abat-
ing and that many of the counties IN the
properly corn territory are again assum-
ing more nearly normal corn areas. Six
adjoining counties in the northern tier
have the largest corn areas, as follows:
Marshall. 20s,75s acres; Nemaha. 1880
Jewell zee, 3Ss; Washington, 172,52s; Re-
public, 1851. and Smith, 1928 acres.
Owing to the different sorts and plant
ings the prospects are widely variant,
and in some communities the corn situa-
ton seems most complex. Recent timely
abundance Of moisture and favorable
weather, however. have given impetus
to its growth ard healthy development,
and greatly benefits all paintings. Where
cultivation has been neglected, usually
poorest conditions are found. and weeds
have been most aggressive. Generally ii
is reported that early corn is safely
advanced and that planted later is rapid
ly responding TO the new favoring condi-
tions-a large proportion promising well.
Conditions on all paintings in the flooded
districts average S. and the concesus 81
correspondents reports in such territory
rate. the prospect for a good crop as
medium" II is noteworthy also that the
highest conditions reported for corn are
in the northwesteriy counties, to-wit:
Rocks. 100; Mitchell go; Rush, 9s; Jew
ell, IS; Thomas. 90; Lincoln, 90: Osborne.
81: Decatur, 81. and Cloud. Lane. Scott.
Cheyenne. Phillips and Smith each 20,
while the least promising prospects seem
10 be in the counties constituting the
western two-thirds OF the southern third
Of the state.
The quantity Of old corn found by as
SCISSORS In farmers hands March l was
4S.S .264 bushels. against 7.724sl2 in 1899.
Wheat on hand. ass 7s bushels On
hand last year. 1864 .ss5 bushels.
The following table gives. by counties,
the total yield OF winter wheat as esti-
mated by correspondents. and the acre
age OF corn m each;
Wheat. Corn.