The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-17
Four Big Maize Producing
Counties Bring Down Average.
WHEAT, 20 MILLIONS.
At That Worth as Much as
Last Years Crop.
Considered Remarkable Show
ing Despite FOrebOdings.
Corn condition "a per cent.

Winter wheat yield, TO- 1852 bushels
! Area planted to winter wheat, 7,051,-
| S72 acres.
Average wheat yield per acre for
state, 9.93 bushels.
| Banner wheat county of state, Reno,
with 1908, 927 bushels.
The above are some of the interesting
facts isolated from the crop report is
sued late Friday afternoon by +. D.
| Coburn, secretary of the state board Of
agriculture.
The showing for the total wheat crop
| is remarkable, considering the pessimis-
| tic prophesies made earlier in the sea-
son when the green bugs and other
| hostile reptiles were touring the state
At that time it was thought that about
%, 900, 600 bushels was all that could be
expected Later estimates have been
about 10000, 900 bushels, while the Off
cial returns, made from the assessors
| figures, show that the state raised over
| 100000 bushels, which will probably
be worth more money than the average
| wheat crop of the state.
Corn conditions of the state are gen.
orally favorable, except in the four big
gest corn producing counties-JeweH,
Smith, Phillips and Norton. Norton
county reports the worst condition in
| the state-only 10 per cent.
The following is the report:
Assessors returns for 1907 show that
| the area sown to winter wheat for this
years crop amounted to considerably
more than had hitherto been reported,
aggregating for the state 7,051.872 acres.
| This is about $4,000 acres more than the
| estimate made by the boards cores
pondents in the fall of 1906; is $4,000
acres more than was devoted to winter
wheat last year, and greater by 615,-
| 900 acres than any previous season 5
sowings for winter and spring wheat
| combineds Not only does the area as
tod al
tons but it seems also that much or
the 81 per cent earlier reported by
growers as failure so surprisingly re-
! spondcd to the greatly improved condi-
lions which followed the boards June
report as to justify its harvesting,
! considerable of this area returning
yields per acre approximating the av-
erage for the state This Improvement
I was made possible blythe disappearance
! from infested loca Titles of the pestifer-
Gus green lice, ample moisture, apnno-
ant sunshine and favorable tempera-
lures Excellent conditions for rlpenlng
and in the main for harvesting result
ed in grain that will grade We'll, nine
tenths of the whole being reported as
of good, merchantable quality. Bas-
ing the average yield per acre on the
entire area sown, Kansas is credited
with total yield of winter wheat in
1907, of 70,057, 1862 bushels, or an average
per acre of 993 bushels, as stated at
this time by the men who have grown
it and who are now threshing ana
marketing 1t. This years crop IS more
than the average annual output for the
decade ending with 1906, and while these
6eures are accurate for all practical
purposes they will be subject to some
revision in detail later in the year az
ter threshing is completed 80
Returns of assessors also show 1885,
500 acres of spring wheat SoWn this year,
or 1920 acres less than In 1906 NO
figures are given as yet OF the spring
wheat production, but its y1eld VIII aoo
fafn T.
nut Present reports indicate that this
falls sowing will be below that OF a
wear ago. Most of the leading growers
report smaller areas probable, while the
extreme southwestern and most OF the
northeastern corner counties will ike
Iv materially enlarge their areas. This
wear % counties each raised more
than 1,O0O,0 900 bushels. Only three
raised 100000 bushels or more while
last wear there were five with more
than 1000 900 bushels, and there were
two with over 100000 bushels to their
credit Reno county leads this year
with a Weld of 2,903,927 bushels, FOL
lowed by Barton with 2,748, 800 bushels
and Pratt with 1861, 800 bushels. The
largest yields per acre are In the
Northeastern part of the state, as in
1906 Brown and Nemaha, adjoining
(eastern) counties in the northern tier,
report the largest yleld per acre, aNe
aging 26 bushels; Pottawatom1e ana
Wabaunsee rank next with % bushels,
eo,1oTTed nv Washington with % and
Marshall and Atchison with IL The
lowest Weld is three bushels per acre IN
sherman. Lane and Hodgeman counties.
DESPITE the unfavorable conditions
,revailine at the usual planting time
the area devoted to corn is over per
cont larger than one year ago, aggregat-
ing 6,796,315 acres. according TO as
SCISSORS REPORTS suggest that for corn
this has been a most peculiar season
in many localities. Much OF that put IN
aarIv progressed very slowly or had to
be renlanted. owing to the long con-
timed and unseasonably cool weather,
and most of the crop is not SO far ao~
5vanced as usual for the time OF year.
Prospects are widely variant IN aoJoin-
ing counties and even in adjacent nelus
because of the different paintings. Inc
present average condition for the Wnole
is IA per cent, 100 representing gooo
average stand and satisfactory CROWN.
In the principal corn territory the pest
outlook is in a block of sixteen north
eastern counties north of or adJaceEt
to the Kansas river, and there the
higher conditions are reported, eacn.
with one exception, averaging ~ or Del
ter The western two-thirds OF the
southern half of the state also present
a quite promising prospect, and the
least favorable seems to be in the
southeastern and northwestern coun-
ties The situation in the quartet or
famous corn yielders, Norton, Phillips.
Smith and Jewell, adjoining counties
bordering Nebraska, is discouraging,
the condition on their combined areas
tenth of the states crop area) averag-
ing but 23.5 Marshall reports more
ground planted than any other county,
or 191 1871 acres. with a condition of 81.