The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-03
GRAND SUMMARY
Secretary COburn GivesOut Crop
Figures for 1907.
Nineteen Million Dollars In
crease in Value of Products.
WHEAT CONDITION 95.9
Indications Favorable to Big
Crop Next Year.
Value of 1907 Wheat Broke All
Previous Records.
State Products for YearAmOunt
to $3.50 Per Capita.
WHEAT CONDITION 95.9

After weeks of hard work in COM
plllng VoluminouS reports from 1000
correspondents all over the state, the
nnai summary of Kansas crop pro-
auction for 1907 was made public to-
day by F. D. Coburp secretary of the
state board of agriculture.
1t shows among other things, the
following interesting facts:
Aggregate agricultural and live
stock products for the year were
worth $463, ,64S,606, which is $39,31s,-
7S9 ahead of the record.
Wheat production was 74,155,695
bushels; value 76.5 cents per bushef;
aggregate value $56,787,512 or ST.
6OS,SO1 in excess of any preceding
year.
els; average per acre 211s bushels;
averages 1882 cents per bushel; ag-
gregate value $63,040,743, or $6,25S,-
232 greater than wheat.
Value of products of the year per
capita of population, $3.50.
The report shows that in the past
10 years, the population of the state
has increased 20 per cent, while the
value of the agricultural and live
stock products has increased 80 per
cent.
Incidentally, Mr.. Coburn draws a
moral In his report concerning mac
aroni wheat" which the United States
department. of agriculture experts are
arid belt" Mr. Coburn shows that
macaroni wheat yielded SO per cent
less per acre, and brought 11.6 cents
less per bushel.
The following is Mr. Coburn's re-
port in full:
Notwithstanding any apparent
shortage, in aggregate yields of the
principal crops, and in spite of car
loads of imported and homegrown
crop-killers, who by working night
and day shifts put in double time.
there is a net increase of $19, ,492,69S
in the value of the years farm output
over that of 1906, making the total,
as it is for live stock values, the great
est in the states, history.
In but one year since. 1890 have
Kansas wheat growers received SO
much per buShel for their wheat as
in 1907, when it averaged 765 cents,
the whole amounting to $56,7S7,512,
or $1,608,S01 more than that of any
preceding year. Not in twenty-five
years, excepting 1901, has Kansas
This years farm products and live
stock reach the unprecedented value
of $463,648,606 or 39,313,739 in ex-
cess of the best prior year. which was
1906. This increase is chiefly from
products of live stock, which were
worth $15, 5,752,000 more than one year
ago, and the value of the states live
stock on hand, which is nearly $2O,-
hay. each with diminished tonnage,
are worth more, and sugar beets, an
item for the first time appearing in
the states summary of agricultural
general wealth. 1t is interesting to
note that the increase in population
and also Of area cultivated is for each
about 20 per cent over that of ten
years ago, but the increase, in the
value of the products of the soil
amounts to nearly 80 per cent. Live
stock of all kinds. except sheep, are
not only greater in numbers but of
improved blood, and those on hand
are worth 109 per cent more than the
live stock of ten years before, while
the percentage of increase in the value
Of their products is practically the
same
on the whole the year has been
most fruitful, and the value of Kansas
farm products and live stock. appor-
toned equally among her inha bitants.
would make a credit for each of $3.50.
The Wheat Crop.
The crop. 74,155,695 bushels, while
less in yield by fraction over 90
per cent, had a value nearly per
cent greater than that of one year
ago, and is worth more than any prev
Ious wheat crop. Even the record
making yield of over 80 million bush
els in 1903 brought the states wheat
growers $4,361, ,157 less. and the value
Of the combined wheat crops of the
four years ending with 1896 was not
so much by nearly one-fourth. Kan
sas has produced six wheat crops
worth so million dollars or more
each, in the past seven years. as fol-
ows:
1901 O,61O,505
1903 52,426,555
1904 ................ 51,409.255
1905 53,Ss9,565
1906 55,17S,711
1907 56,7S7.512
That this years diminished wheat