The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-14
HIGH MARK MADE.
New Record for Kansas Farm
Products and Live Stock.
Passes the Four Hundred MILLION
Dollar Figure.
WHEAT ALSO HIGHEST.
Crop Brings the Largest Sum
in States History.
Value of This Years Products
S26 Per Capita.
WHEAT ALSO HIGHEST.

+,,re +oaaz- issues its summary OF the
agricultural. horticultural ana live
stock products Of Kansas-yieids.
numbers. quantities. and values-tor
the year 1905. It says;
Kansas Greatest Year-Agricul-
turalv the year 1905 has been the
most fruitful in the states history and
the value of its farm products ana
live stock. S408, ,639.823, is the largest
ever recorded for Kansas 1t IS
greater by S41.222,7O3, or 11S per
cent. than in 1904; is over twenty
eight million dollars more than twice
as much as their value in 1896, ten
years ago, and is considerable more
than their combined values in the nrsl
two years of the past quarter century
For the first time the value OF han-
sas agricultural productions and I'VE
stock amount to more than four nun
dred million doIlars-the nearest ap-
prOach to this being in 1908, when the
amount aggregated SS8l,5OU,UVV As
suggestive of the present stuatlon, IL
may be said that this year S WheaI IS
worth more than that OF any Other
years crop; with one exception the
same is true of corn, and the state IS
richer in live stock than ever before.
The years aggregate value OF farm
products and live stock is sufficient, II
habitants to give each, whether adult
or infant, S264, and this, together with
the per capita amount OF over SO on
deposit in Kansas banks, institutions
patronized chiefly by farmers indf-
cate a degree OF prosperity most sub
stantial and gratifying
Wheat-The total yield of wheat
winter and spring, Of superb quality,
was 7L17S,177 bushels this IS over
u million bushels, or I8.A per cent,
q n TQnls 40
cent greater than the annual average
for the past twenty years, and is the
fourth largest crop produced by kan
sas- It's home value is given as $685.
871,624, showing it to be the greatest
income bringing wheat crop ever
raised in the state, nearly As. per cent
greater in value than the 1904 crop
and S1,445,269 more than the returns
from the crop of 1908, which hereto
fore held the record for highest ag-
gregate value
That the Kansas wheat farmer has
been particularly prosperous in re
cent years can well be concluded from
the fact that in the past five, ending
with 1906, Kansas raised two wheat
crops of over 80 million bushels each,
one of over n million bushels, one of
over 65 million bushels and one of
about 55 million bushels aggregating
S6l'54 ,03g bushels In the nve years,
worth S234 ,45l, ,229. or an average an
nual output of 76.26S.SO8 bushels.
worth an average of S47,491,446.
Fhe most valuable FOUR wheat crops
produced by Kansas have been raised
in the past five years. as follows:
1901 $50 $40 EOS
@430S @ q 426 525
1906 53 81 "a
Of this years crop 1,335,518 bushels
is of spring wheat, considerably
larger quantity than is ordinarily pro-
duced, and its value is given as
S7SS,974.
OF winter wheat the area sown. as
returned by assessors in March, was
5,835,237 acres. The largest Yields
per acre this year were in the eastern
counties. in fifteen Of which thew
ranged from 20 to 27 bushels. Lyon
and CoHey reporting the latter Thirty
three counties each had one million
bushels or more, aggregating 70 per
cent of the years crop. The LEADING
six counties in winter wheat and their
output named according to rank in
yield, are
Barton ..................... 4 neo 325 busho1s
Keno ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. go go bushels
sumner Observation-Disclosures. .2,343 654 bushels
EdMlee 2. .302, ,924 bushels
llel 9oi '-.'-.-..--...-.. - 464 bushels
STAFFORD --...-.-..--.-.-.-.. 2, 169. .772 bushels
corresponding report that this
daL sowing VIII aggregate about s.
SVO,UO0 acres. an increase from one
year ago of 64,763 acres. or II Der
cent. Seventy-fve counties, located in
various portions of the state and more
or less noted for their wheat prOduc-
ION report the same or increased
areas. Calling a satisfactory stand and
healthy condition 100, the general
average Of the growing wheat for the
state is now S0.4. Five counties in fbe
eastern third Of the state have condi-
tloHs OF LOO or over. and in fact the
pest conditions prevail throughout the
seclon named most Of the counties re-
poruhg 80 or better Soil and weather
IN some portions of the state were
Qulle favorable for sowing and since
Tor germination and growth in others
opposite conditions existed owing to
4ack or sufficient moisture. Nota bIv is
TINS lne case in about twelve of the
prominent wheat producers. and to a
greater or lesser degree in localities
mere and there in other counties. for
tile most part confined to Il block of
uie state area 100 miles square meas
gIlng westward from the eastern bor-
ger OF Republic county. which includes
tne twelve counties before mentioned
Norton reports the lowest condition.
%, and IregO next with 5S The nres-
5nce OF insects is noted in some fields.
II any. apprehension
Corn-Ihe corn crop amounts to
1SO,5l9, ,593 bushels. the largest since
ASVz' and 58.500,000 bushels more
eL51h IAaI OIL lS04; its value is S68,71S.-
oo+, Nhlch, with one exception. is the
most valuable corn crop produced in
the state. The corn, by more than
one million dollars, outvalues that of
the years wheat. oats. rye buclwheat
DAooLH corn max, and Irish and sweet
poLatoes combined. Thirty-tv0 conn
lies, all except three in the eastern
third Of the state, report yields per
acre Of 30 or more bushels. the highest
9elng So IN Wyandotte, followed by
Brown, Jefferson, Leavenwortb and
Miami, each credited with s5 bushels
per acre. Forty-three counties show
aggregate yields of two million or
1ere bushels each. Jewell leading (as