East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-22

more wheat than any other state or
country in the world naturally causes
much earnest watchfulness and dis
oussion of its areage, condition, pros
poets, yield and quality at home, and
throughout the grain, milling, trans
portation, breadstuff banking and
commercial centers of civilization
says F. d. Coburn in the Tribune
Farmers.
This would naturally persuade
those without knowledge of the facts
TO suppose that wheat is by far the
states main and foremost CROP yet,
compared in importance and value
with her corn, wheat is a side issue,
and only one OF the various secondary
items the worth Of which must be
aggregated to even approach the
value OF corn.
In the last 10 years the value Of
Kansas corn crop has been $780,
100000 more than that OF the wheat
produced in the same period, which
included three OF the states largest
wheat crops and one Of the smallest
Of corn. In the preceding 10 years
the corn was worth nearly 5000, ,O0O,-
600 more than the wheat. The Kan
sas corn crop was worth over $1,000
600 more than all other products of
the soil in 1902, and in two preceding
seasons corn outvalued all the other
field products, wheat included.
Great as the wheat crops have been
for the 25 of the 43 years of which
there is record, statistics reveal that
the aggregate value of the corn crop
was more than double that of the
combined yields of winter and spring
wheat, and in but few years has the
value of the wheat crop approached
or surpassed that of the same years
corn. The value of the corn alone in
each of the Is years of the last 20 has
been greater than that of all other
field crops together, wheat omitted.
And in only one year (1901) of the
last decade, did corn fail to outvalue
the same crops. In other words, in
each of the last 10 years save one the
annual corn crop was of greater
worth than the same years oats, rye,
barley. buckwheat, Irish potatoes
sweet potatoes. castor beans, cotton.
flax, hemp, tobacco, broom corn, mil
let and Hungarian sorghum, milo
maize, Kaffir corn, Jerusalem corn
prairie hay tame hays, alfalfa and
horticultural products marketed.
In 1899, according to the govern
ment's reports, the Kansas corn yield
was greater than that of all the New
England states, New York, New Jer-
sey. Delaware, Michigan, Virginia,
South Carolina, Florida, West vir-
ginia, Maryland, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota, Montana, wyom-
ing. Colorado, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington, Oregon, California and
Oklahoma Five years later in 1904
In spite OF. her destructive floods
Kansas produced more corn than all
New England, Pennsylvania, Mime
sofa and 13 additional states and ter
ritories. In almost any year three or
four of the more northern of the
states los counties produce more
corn than the entire Dominion OF
Canada. In 1889 the yield Of corn in
Kansas was 273,sSS,321 bushels.
The value Of the Kansas corn crop
OF 1902 from only 13 per cent of her
area was sufficient to more than
five times cover the cost Of the entire
Louisiana purchase and nearly II
times as much as the United States
paid for all Alaska.
The value Of her corn grown in the
last 20 years was S100,00O,O0O more
than that Of all the wheat crops
grown by Kansas since her beginning.
The three or four states excellng
Kansas in total corn production are
her immediate neighbors of the pra-
irie. OF these she is neither Jealous
nor envious and to overcome any de-
ficit in meat making foods caused by
a decrease in corn, she has only to
utilize one Of her three, four or five
cuttings of alfalfa harvested each
year. Missouri, for example, is ad-
mittedly one Of the worlds foremost
corn states, yet Uncle Sans reports
show that Kansas in 1896 and 1893
raised more corn by 40 per cent than
was raised by Missouri.
Uncle Sans reports point out that
in the five year period ending with
the year 1900 the combined value OF
Kansas corn and wheat exceeded that
of the same crops Of any other state
in the Union. Illinois came next, but
fell behind Kansas by a little less than
sIs.OOO.OOO
In corn. Kansas is a Millionaire. In
the last 20 years the state has raised
2.s57,l22.16l bushels, worth on the
farms where grown over 1921, 900, 900.