Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-07-01
Crop Review

Alfalfa now for the most part is in |
the stack, and the second crop on
the majority of farms well started !
Some few whose crop was not in
jured by the late frost are not yet
quite finished with the first crop.
The weather was favorable for the |
most part and the crop went into
stack in good shape. The small
grain harvest is just begun and of
course no definite report can now
be made, and our opinion is sum-
ming up of reports from all over the
county as they came in during the
| last three weeks.
AS reported by US for the Fowler
Gazette, 4 weeks ago, at that time
the east and south parts of the coun-
ty had been then. and have since
been favored with more rain than
the northwest portion of the county,
But since that time and about the
time of our last summing up of the
crop situation, there have been cop
ious rains northwest of Meade.
The result being that the wheat in
that part has recovered to remark
able degree and the crop there will
be fair to good as then predicted.
In that portion there is likely TO
be less smut and weeds, and the
berry will be hard and weight good.
In the southwest and especially just
north of the Cimarron sand hills the
wheat is very good, though the
acreage as compared with other
portions ofthe county is not relative
ly so large, yet the yield promises to
be so good, the farmers will reap
better returns per acre. From the
sand hills to the G.. R. l. &. P.
tracks the crop has been reported
good to best, or to use common
form from 81 per cent to 100 per
cent of normal. In the valley north
of Meade, thepeculiar home of alf-
) alta, wheat and all small grain is
not so good. North of Fowler: we
have no report from. East of town
some small fields, that is small for
Meade county are estimated at as
high as 40 bushels, but they are
exceptions.
Finally from all sources we think
the indications are for an average
crop of IL to IS bushels. We have
: IN the above taken into consider
: alton that estimates obtained on the
street by an editor are likely to be
plenty high. Some crops were
badly damaged by the high winds
early in the spring and some of
| them will not beTcut, these are not
taken into consideration in this esti
mate of an average yield, for the
reason that our talks did not in
clude them, nor do we have any
means of approximately knowing
i the number of acres blown out.
5kHowever there was no general dam
Rage. but it was confined to fields
on sandy land exposed by inclina-
ton to the wind.
The poor quality of kaffir corn
seed, shipped in this spring In con-
nection with cold and wet weather at
planting time caused the rePlantlng
of many pieces and for that reason
much of it is small, but there IS no
reason to fear short crop on that
account, for there is plenty OF time
to mature it, milo maize IN a like
condition. Corn is everywhere re-
ported better than the average and
from knee high to shoulder high
In the south part and extreme south
east where tho soil is better adapted
to corn than the heavy wheat land
of the high fats corn is exceptional
ly fine. Barley is fairly good and
will be for the county good crop
Of fruit practically nothing except
grapes and the native currents was
left by the late frost in the spring
These have continued to grow
finely and will be good, the currants
are now ripeningp and are fine. a
few apples and peaches were spared