Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-12-07

Il 81
aud Mcpherson each raised over
three million bushels; FIVE count.
les range between that and two
million bushels, and twentyone
have between two million and one
million bushels making 81 count.
les with yields of one million
bushels or more each, and aggre-
eating 6S,S95.O26 bushels, or
slightly over 70 per cent Of the
years production Of winter wheat.
These counties are in the so.called
wheat belt" of the central por.
ton of the state, and it is among
these, too, that the higher average
conditions are reported for the
growing wheat s0wD this fall for
the crop of 1907. In fact. the
conditions for the fall sown wheat
have been quite generally excel.
lent from the beginning, especial
ly In the majority of the main
wheat growing counties through
out the state; the lower conditions
are confined mostly to the north
eastern counties in the block 100
miles square previously mention
ed, but the recent benefcient snow
and rainfalls have not only
doubtless materially improved the
situation there but proved of in
calculable benefit to the growing
wheat elsewhere. The highest
average condition is 1O5 for
Thomas county; Greeley reports
lO4, Rocks lO3, Graham and Wal
lace each lO2, and nineteen others
each 100; the general average for
the state being 93.7 per cent, or
1873 points above that reported at
about the same date for the grow
ing wheat of one year ago, and
higher than at any similar time
within the past few years. Re-
ports indicate that the area sown
is considerably increased, cores
pondents agreeing quite unanim.
ously upon this. 4
Corn. = Corn yielded 1902, :.
PA bushels, which is 3,49S.S7
bushels less than in 1905. Its
value is $65, 1903, and it is the
third most valuable corn crop ever
raised in the state, surpassed only
by the 1905 crop, which was
worth 1903. 3Sl more, and by the
crop of 1902. Although this
years wheat crop is the most
valuable ever raised in the state,
the years yield of corn outvalues
it BY nearly ten million dollars.
Thirty -four counties report aver
age yields of 30 or more bushels
per acre, these larger yields being
reported in the eastern counties
and those counties in the south
central portion of the state which
are particularly and Justly famed
as great wheat producers. Wyau-
dotte leads with Il bushels, fol-
lowed by johnson with 40, Doni-
phan with 80, Harvey, Pottawat.
omie and Sumner each with SO,
and Cowley, Brown. Douglas,
Reno and Wabaunsee each with
IS bushels per acre. Forty-six
counties show aggregate yields of
over two million bushels each;
Marshall, which last year ranked
second, leading with 6,32S,SO5
bushels, followed by Nemaha with
5,4OO,3SO bushels, Reno third
with 4.777,29O bushels, Jewell.
which in the three preceding years
ranked first, this year occupying
fourth place with 1905, 500
A
bushels, and Sedgwick ranking
fifth with 4.5O5, 424 bushels. The
value of Marshall county's corn
yield this year, $2,27S,S 1863. 80. is
greater than the value ofthe yield
OF any county since 1902. This
years crop was. harvested from
1854. 535 acres. 2l5.22O acres or|
o.l6 per cent less than the 1905
acreage. The average yield per
acre for the entir Q state was 28.4