The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-29
SscretaryKansas Grain Dealers
Association on Wheat Crop.
Estimates Total Yield at 75,-
O11,137 Bushels.
CORN TOTAL 119,445,S2O
With Average Yield of 15 Bush.
els to Acre.
Acreage of Kansas Wheat Given
at 6,5O1,5OO Acres.

at 6,5O1 500 Acres.
E. J. Smiley, secretary of the Kan
sas Grain Dealers association has is
sued his corn and wheat bulletin for
the period up to the 2sth of the pres
ent month. The bulletin is final as far
as the wheat situation in Kansas is
concerned this season. but another
corn bulletin will in all probability be
issued the latter part of November or
the first of December
The report issued by Secretary
Smiley places the total yield of wheat
in Kansas at 75,011,137 bushels, OF
which 74,337.797 was from winter
sowing and 673,34O from spring plant
ing, or an average of 11.6 bushels pen,
acre of winter wheat and an average of
10 bushels per acre from the fields
sown in the spring.
The same authority places the yield
of corn at 19,445,320 bushels, al
though this estimate is probably less
accurate than that on the wheat yield,
as much of the corn is yet in the field.
According to these figures the average
yield of corn to the acre has been 1873
bushels.
Just at the present time the bulletin
is of especial interest for there has
been nothing of an authentic nature
published on the corn and wheat con-
ditions in the state for a number II
weeks. Since the Coburn and the
Smiley reports were issued over two
months ago the state has been subject
ed to a heated and protracted dry
spell of weather which was followed
by a period of heavy precipitation
generally, too late. however, to save
the corn.
Each of these conditions have had a
marked directly OnnnSffa off on
the two estimates of the authorities
above referred to. The dry period
which Immediately preceded the wheat
harvest in the western part of the
state materially decreased the former
estimated yield and a general dry spell
in August had a similar effect on the
corn.
The report of Secretary Smiley is
compiled from bulletins received from
nearly every shipping station in the
state where one or more cars of grain
have been loaded. The grain buyers
from whom the reports have been re-
ceived, more than 1900 of them, have
formed their estimates directly from
the farmers who have marketed their
reason the report should come very
near expressing the true conditions as
they exist at the present time. Prac-
tically every corn and wheat growing
farmer in the state has been consult
ed either directly or indirectly in ar
irving at the estimates which are pub
lished by Secretary Smiley.
Barton County Holds Wheat Banner.
In point of acres sown as well as in
the number of bushels of wheat har-
vested Barton county is easily in the
lead. In this county the farmers SOW
ed 261,0 acres and harvested 3.654-
112 bushels of wheat which made an
average of IA bushels to the acre.
Reno county is second in the point of
wheat harvested with 3,259,393 bush
els from 191,729 acres sown, which
made of II hnCha1c fO he
acre.
In point of acreage sown Pawnee ex-
ceeded Reno county, 211302 acres having
been planted though the yield was but
q 95s. .22s bushels or an average of IA
bushels to the acre. In Morton county.
in the extreme southwestern part OF
the state but 612 acres were sown to
wheat and the yield was but 3060 or five
bushels to the acre.
The yield of wheat as well as corn
has varied greatly in the several por-
tions of the state accordingly to the
timeliness of the precipitation and the
severity of the dry spells. In several
sections of the state the corn crop was
greatly damaged by heavy winds which
heavy rains. In seven coun-
ties in the state. Clay. Doniphan. Geary
Jewell, Pottawatomie and Shawnes
made a yield of 20 bushels to the acre.
Wheat in Brown Made 22 Bushels.
In every other county in the state
the yield was less with the single ex-
ception Of Brown county where the
wheat crop made yield of % bushels
to the acre. The lowest estimated yield
per acre is reported from Franklin
county where the crop is estimated at
) bushels to the acre. In more than
half a dozen other counties, fnclpding
Ellis, where 191. .1S9 acres were planted
the yield is estimated at but 4 bushels
to the acre.
Nemaha county's corn yield is esti-
mated at 8 3S3. .622 bushels. the largest of
any county in the state. although a
lesser number of acres were planted
than in Reno county which leads the
state in number of acres planted. 203.-
point of acreage planted 1t will be
to be content with fourth
place as far as the yield is concerned
with 3.049.335 bushels.
Nemaha County Leads in Corn.
In Nemaha county the yield is placed
at % bushels to the acre While the es-
1mated yield per acre in Reno county
IS but Is bushels per acre. In Stanton
county but 1925 acres Of corn were
be a total failure. In point of yield
Brown county is entitled to second
pace with an estimated harvest of
]. .236 100 bushels from 107. .807 acres or an
average yield per acre of 30 bushels.
The reports from 1our counties, Atch-
son, Brown, Doniphan and Leaven-
worth indicate that the corn yield will
De 80 bushels to the acre. In nine other
counties the yield is reported at %
bushels to the acre. The BOBBY prize
Is a corn growing county goes to Gray
county where the yield is reported at
bushels to the acre, though there are
several other contestants for the place
IS in a number of the western counties
he yield is reported at bushels to
he acre. The reports from II counties