The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-08
WHEAT is POOR.
Average for the State Not Quite
50 Per Cent.
TWenty-One Per Cent. of the
Acreage Plowed Up.
HAVE ALL GONE.
Nearly Every Portion of State
Gets Rains.
Freeze Last Week in May Does
Much Damage.

winter wheat condition on June 4
was 56.7 in the state of Kansas, accord
ing 10 the report given out today by F.
u. CoDurn, secretary of the state board
OF agriculture.
Inc report also shows that 81 per cent
OF the acreage reported at the open
ing OF the season has been plowed up.
Inns is not very encouraging show
ing ms. but it is better than some of the
d,,rja k,iIers have been predicting
Turing the past week.
Inc report gives no percentages ON
pats ana corn, but admits that they
nave noS been making satisfactory
The report follows:
Inc Kansas board of agriculture to-
Jay ISSUED a report bearing especially
on the states winter wheat situate
1Liu Wnlcn reflects conditions as found
June 4 While all portions of the state
nave oeen covered by the Investigations
the canvass of those counties having
me greatest wheat acreages was par
report says:
1t now seems evident that of the
Stdte total area sown to winter wheat
last fall about 81 per cent, or 100000
acres mas been plowed up or is worth
less, as against the or 5 per cent re-
ported by the same correspondents
April "a. The condition, June 4, on the
5,305,OOO acres which now seems likely
TO be harvested. averages for the state
56.7, or 27.3 points less than the general
average of the growing winter wheat
(about 100000 acres, metz six weeks
ago. The causes of the increased areas
rIoWed up and decrease in condition are
throughout chiefly ascribed to the fire.
quently recurring if not continuous low
temperatures, and general lack of time
~ and sufficient May rainfall The
most notable damage of all. however,
appears to have been done by the wide
spread freeze occurring in the last week
OF May, and this was nowhere more
severe than in Barton and the similar
great wheat counties in that portion
of the state, where the grain was head
ing or headed, and where prior to this
freeze there had been fair promise of a
satisfactory crop. With the exception
OF six. or seven in the eastern part of
the state, prospects have diminished
in every county, and markedly in the
majority of the, foremost wheat pro-
ducers. The lowest condition for any
one county, 35, is reported for Sumner,
the county of largest wheat acreage,
and the highest, 95, for Atchison. In
many counties the grain has not at
tanned "a normal growth, and consider
able is likely to be too short for the
binder. Harvest will be 10 to Is days
later than usual.
One pleasing feature of the present
is brought out by the
Are green lice or other in
this time?'" to which responses are
quite unanimously Nor The in i
formation was often volunteered that
the green bugs" had entirely disap-
peared. While more or less damage
was done by green lice in the southern
central counties-and in some of them |
it was serious-the green bug scare
of 1907, one of a type annually ex-
plotted with Kansas as its stage, is a |
closed incident.
Nearly every portion of the state has
been visited by recent rains, and the
weather at this date is more favorable |
for plant growth than at any previous |
time in the year.
The 1907 assessors returns received |
for 33 counties. which includes sew
eral of the more prominent in wheat
production, show an area sown aggre-
eating 10000 acres more than the
estimate of last fall.
This would seem to indicate that the
states actual wheat acreage was /
larger even than the increased area
earlier reported.
At no time has oats promised and
the outlook for anything like a normal
yield is far from encouraging
Up to within a recent time there has
been no corn growing weather. but the
ate rains and increasing warmth are
greatly beneficial. and the fields are
free from weeds.
Report by Counties.
The table below shows by counties the
area of winter wheat sown in
ZACH last fall. the per cent estimated June
as plowed up or worthless. and the per
likely be harvested, together with the
condition as It appeared April "a:
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