The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
Mr.. COburn Places Average of
Growing Crop at 75.
Says Recent Snow Has Improved
It, However.
BIG YIELD OF CORN.
He Places This Years Product
at 153 Millions.
Value of All Products Nearly
600 Millions.

Secretary F. D. Coburn today issued
a crop report for Kansas, which places
the 1910 wheat yield at 81 million
bushels and the corn at 152,810,0O
bushels He estimates the condition of
winter wheat at IS, but adds that the
snowfall over the state this week will
improve this condition somewhat. He
places the grand total of all Kansas
farm and livestock products for the
year at $539.793,O34. The secretary's
report in full follows:
In spite of a diminished wheat yield
of nearly 20,00O,000 bushels, and the
lower prices for both wheat and corn,
the foremost cereal crops. the value of
Kansas farm products and live stock
for 1910 is the greatest in the annals
of her .husbandry, aggregating $780,
793,O34, or $7,107,789 in excess of the
best preceding year, which was 1909.
Deducting from this years figures the
value of live stock, which has increased
markedly in the year, the farm prod
ucts are worth less by only $2,623,822
than those of year ago. This is ac-
counted for by the decrease of nearly
$3O,00O,000 in values of the years
wheat and corn, although, owing to the
increases in the oats, hays and other
crops, a part of this deficiency is over
come, netting a difference in the value
of field crops Of $12,647. 500, while the
gains in the live stock products-the
one item of animals slaughtered or
sold for that purpose showing an in
crease in value of 11,744,725-level
up the differences between the two
years in the value of their farm prod
ucts, although leaving 1910, as pointed
out, somewhat in arrears.
Wheat-The total area sown to
wheat in the fall of 1909 was 6,6S6, 900
acres. Of this approximately two mill
1t0va fosI
and the remainder yielded 60,2S2,5S1
bushels. With the 734.I58 bushels of
spring wheat, nearly so per cent of
which was produced by Cheyenne and
Sherman counties, added, the Kansas
wheat crop of 1910 amounted to 61,-
017,3 339 bushels, the smallest since
1902, and worth 52.7S5.965. 1t is,
however, more valuable than the o.
041, 902-busheI crop of 1904, but worth
less by 80 per cent than the 1903 out
put of nearly S1,00O,OO0 bushels,
which commanded over seven cents
per bushel on the average. This years
crop ranks eleventh in bulk and sixth
in value. Reports indicate that the
wheat was marketed quite freely in the
early part of the season. but that de-
clining prices checked the movement
appreciably, many holding their pres
ent stocks for more favorable mar
kets, because, as quite few nonchal-
antly confessed, 'tthey don't need the
money; also. facilities for storing are
more ample than in earlier years.
The average yield per acre was prac-
tically the same as last year, about 1 "
bushel more than in 1903 and over 2
bushels more than in 1907
Pawnee County Leads in Wheat.
In producing this years crop, Paw
nee county comes forward as a new
champion, having the largest yield, or
3,9S3,673 bushels, from 2O9,667 acres.
Barton county. which led last year,
harvested a larger acreage this year
than Pawnee, but the yield was less, or
in the aggregate 3,255,375 bushels.
Rush came next with 2,S6S,975 bush
els, The higher yields per acre, how
ever, were principally in the north
eastern counties.
Indications point to a substantial in
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