The Mena weekly star., 1907-08-22
COB|)RN'S WHEAT REPORT.
Kansas Agricultural Secretary Says State Raised 70,057,3 ,362
 Bushels This Year.
TURNED OUT BETTER TRAN eypeCTEr
Assessors .seturns Show 552,ooo More Acres Planted Than Had Been Estimated--The Years Crop More Than the TenYear Average--Irree uIar Corn Crop.

Topeka, Aug. 1S.-Secretary Coburn of the state board of agriculture, inI report issued Friday says that Kan. sas raised 70,o57,302 bushels of win ter wheat this year This is the first report he has made giving the quan. tity of the crop.
 Assessors returns show that the area sown to wheat last fall was [, 051, ,S72 acres, by far the largest area ever planted in Kansas, or any other state. and 52,00s acres more than the estimate of the acreage made by the boards correspondents last fall. The figures are 813,000 acres more than was devoted to wheat last year, and 615,000 acres more than any previous years sowings of winter and spring wheat combined.
 Not only does the area as official ly reported exceed all expectations, but it seems also that much of the 2l per cent earlier reported by growers as failure so surprisingly responded to the greatly improved conditions which followed the boards June report as to justify it's harvesting, con siderable of this area returning yields per acre approximating the average for the state. This improvement was made possible by the disappearance om infested localities of the pesti ferrous green lice, ample moisture, abundant sunshine and favorable tenn. peratures. Excellent conditions for ripening and in the main for harvest ing resulted in grain that will grade well, nine-tenths of the whole being reported as of good. merchantable quality" says MT. Coburn.
 The average yield per acre on the entire acreage sown is 993 bushels. The estimate is subject to some re- vision when the final reports are made later in the year.
 This years crop of wheat is more than the average annual output for the ten years ending in 1906.
 Twenty-eight counties each raised more than 100000 bushels. Only three raised 100000 bushels or more Brown and Nemaha counties reported the largest yields per acre, averaging 26 bushels per acre. Pottawatomie and Wabaunsie averaged 23 bushels. Washington 22, Marshall and Atchi. son 21. The lowest average is three bushels in sherman, Lane and Hodge man counties.
 The area of spring wheat planted was 1S3,S23 acres. slightly less than in 1906. No estimate is made of the average yield.
 Present reports indicate that this falls sowing will be below that of a year ago Most of the leading grow. CTS report smaller areas probable. while the extreme southwestern and most of the northeastern corner coun- ties will likely materially enlarge their areas.
 The average condition of corn for the whole state is "A Despite the un. favorable conditions prevailing at the usual planting time the area devoted to corn is over three per cent larger than one year ago. aggregating 6796,- SIS acres, according to assessors. Re ports suggest that for corn this has been a most peculiar season in many localities. Much of that put in early progressed very clowly or had to be replanted, owing to the long contin- ued and unseasonably cool weather, and most of the crop is not SO far ad- vanced as usual for the time of year. Prospects are widely variant in ad- joining counties, and even in adja- cent fields because of the different plantings