The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-03
IT'S 63 MILLIONS.
Authentic Figures on This
Years Wheat Crop
Given Out by State Board of
Agriculture.
CORN CONDITION, 65.
Acreage LIN About the Same an
Last Year.
Wheat Crop Is Above the Aver
age for Ten Years.
CORN CONDITION, 65

According to bulletin issued by tins
state board of agriculture, this year
wheat yield in Kansas amounts to o.
AZ, 156 bushels. These figures are based
on assessors returns combined with
statements from growers and they are
subject TO some revision after the
threshing is all done
The same bulletin places the corn
area of hansas this year at 6,4s2,5Zl
acres and its average condition at %
per cent
The wheat yield is a little less than
IL bushels per acre for the entire area
aown which was 5,S16,SS0 acres but II
amount was plowed up and more was
totally destroyed by the flood, so that
the yield per acre of that harvested
was far above eleven bushels.
This crop. while 80 per cent smaller
than the record breaking crop of 1908,
Is II per cent above the average for the
last ten years
According 10 the growers estimates
s sgS near of - Peod GEM merchantabe
quality and the remainder more or
less damaged by excessive rains at and
after harvest time
The bulk of this years output is, as
usual. produced in the central third OF
the state. % counties in this section
each. save one. yielding one million
bushels or more. are credited with
Sumner is found to have the larSeSt
aggregate yield of any county, S,sza o.
bushels, and the largest area llkewlse'
Reno ranks next with 3,1Z5,lSO busne4S.
and is first in average yield per acre, OF
Spring wheat is a constantly dimin-
tshing factor in Kansas agriculture
and in the past decade its area mas De
creased y per cent, being in 1894 only
45.217 acres.
Ccrn-The states corn area. 6.492, 81
acres. is virtually the same as IN ISOo,
and conditions environing its prosperity
have been somewhat similarly discour-
aging. The present average condition
for the whole is s. per cent, and the
more promising prospects seem 10 De
IN the counties OF the central thlrd OF
the state. but in the rsain these are not
counties ordinarily having the larger
acreages nor producing the heavier
Yields Owing to floods and incesSanI
rainfall in the fore part Of the season
In the strictly corn producing territory
little corn found a favoring seed bed;
its beginning was so unpropitiouS that
long time growers in those parts OF the
state reported with much unanlTnity
that under no circumstances could a
normal yield be matured. and present
returns verify their earlier opinions -
On a basis of 100 representing a good |
average condition, Barber, Barton. King |
mar and Rocks each report 100, and |
among those with a condition OF 80 or |
above are Edwards. Ford, Harper, |
Kiowa, Mitchell, Osborne. Phillips, Pratt, |
Reno. Russell, Sheridan, Smith and /
Trego.
The quality of old corn found by as
SCISSORS in farmers hands March l was |
"a. S90117 bushels, against 45.423,133 /
bushels in 1893.
Wheat on hand S,7s3. 799 bushels. On |
hand last year 4.692.579 bushels.
The following table gives. by counties 4
the total yield of winter wheat as esti- /
mated by the boards correspondents. /
and the acreage and present condition /
OF corn in each: