The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-08-10
EIEEIY MlLLI0a BysHEL CR0P
GREAT WHEAT PRODUCTION N
KANSAS THIS YEAR.
mat sherman County Furnishes Only
5000 Bushels, Though. Is
Very Incorrect.

AZ me present market values this
year wheat crop is worth fiftv mil
ION collars TO the farmers Of Kansas
Inc corn crop Of Kansas promises 10,
De about 200 million bushels Iv--,-fL
eDOut sIXty-hve million dollars to the
- 81 LLLSLs- me nay crop is about an
average one, commanding more thar
aFeLase prices Pastures are in good
cOhoIlon- The live stock industry IS
prospecting The farmers OF Ka1ssS
ana OF the entire west are assured r,f
announcer year OF profitable returns on
thelF INDUSTRY and their capital. and
II,,- tLleLeLOFe follows that the western
business man has another year OF hig1
uoe prosperity before him.
me wheat crop Of Kansas has turn
60 out lar beyond the expectations of
ahyone VINO attempted prior to har-
vest 20 make estimates of the OutD11f
Up 70 July I the general expectation
Hds mat the yield would be less than
last year The threshfng has now
gone 1ar enough to indicate that the
state has raised about ninety million
bushels OF wheat or thirteen million
bushels more than in 1905. and with
one exception the largest crOp that
Kansas ever produced Indeed the
mai returns may raise the estimate
above the crop OF 1903, which, as re-
ported by Secretary COburn. was nine
Jy-IOur million bushels. The govern
ment estimate Of the Kansas crop that
year was eighty-seven million bushels
the crop has been threshed, but the
estimates here printed are based on
the threshing which has been done.
Some phenomenal yields are report
ed in nearly every county in the state.
Many neldS produced forty to fifty
bushels to the acre and there are few
counties that do not report some fields
yielding thirty bushels or more. While
the largest yields are in the eastern
half Of the state, where the acreage
is not large Of tho T7crcr1cF
counties produced an average Of
eighteen to twenty bushels.
Kansas never before produced a
crop Of wheat which turned out so
much in excess OF estimates made on
the eve Of harvest The weather was
ideal for making full heads and plump
berries, and the average quality Of the
crop is probably the best ever pro-
duced.
The above is part Of a an article
printed in the Kansas city Star Of
very recent date. Before printing the
list Of counties Of the state, giving the
acreage Of wheat and the estimated
yield per acre the article states that
the acreage Of wheat in the counties
was reported to the Star by Secretary
COburn Of the state department OF
agriculture, and that the average yield
per acre was obtained from the grain
shippers, millers and Farmers Coop
erative association.
There was an exceedingly fnaccur-
ate statement in this article as to the
acreage in wheat in Sherman county.
The list shows that this county was
credited with 5,736 acres, and a yield
Of fifteen bushels per acre, making
the total wheat production in this
county for 1906, $4,000 bushels. This
paper has printed repeatedly the fact
obtained from the records in the Of
fee Of the county clerk, that the acre
age Of winter wheat for the year 1906
was S,64S, and the acreage Of spring
wheat was 3O,327, making a total
wheat acreage Of $3.50 Now, the
report OF the Star Of the average yield
in Sherman county was fifteen bushe
to the acre, which in all probability
is fair one, and this would acredit
US with a total wheat production of
5S4.55O So that the statement in the
Star as to the wheat production In
Sherman county is OF only about
500, 600 bushels. Either Secretary Co
burn, or whoever made up the acre
age for the Star. made a very egregi-
GUS blunder- 1t looks pretty bad to
have so thrifty a county as ours, fall
down to a figure Of $4,000 bushels, /
when Thomas county on the east IS
county on the north with $4,000; |
Rawlins county, cOrnering on the
northeast, with 778,OOO; Logan cOun- |
ty. cOrnering on the southeast with /
3O3, 900. People who have the pride /
of Sherman county at heart, and al /
ders, will be glad to know that this |
county is not trailing along with a lit 1
tie old $4,000 bushels II wheat for this /
year, but figuring On She correct acre
age, with an average yield o. fifteen Il
bushels, will have a total OF 5S4,55O /
bushels
Good Corn Prospects.
Of more than 100 reports regard
ing the condition Of corn, only eleven
report fair to poor, and all the rest
saw the DrOSDpcC is good to excellent.
There are limited portions of Kansas
which need rain, but fully go per cent
Of the state has ample moisture for
present needs and the frequency Of
rains during July give promise that
the season will continue to supply
ample precipitation to produce a large
crop Of corn.
Sherman county is not in that limit