The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-10
WHEAT IS POOR.

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crease in area sown to winter wheat
IN the fall of this year. In the main
the sowing was finished IN good time,
but in many portions notably the
south central and western counties,
much of the seed has not terminated
because of insufficient moisture. A con-
siderable fall of. snow, however, over
much of the state within the past
week and still unmelted has been well
come Previously, the consensus of re-
ports from correspondents was that
the general average condition of the
wheat sown was 1855 per cent, using
the customary 100 as the base of esti-
mates. It is interesting to note that
were line drawn from Cheyenne, the
northwest corner county, to Cherokee.
the southeast corner county, the coun-
ties reporting the higher average con-
dlt1ons would be nearly all north of
such line. For example of the 80
counties with average of 80 or more,
all but three are in the northern divi-
sion. A strip where wheat seems most
uniformly prosperous comprises the
nine counties in the northern tier from
Donipl1an to Phillips. one of these av-
eraging 80, two 80, three "a, one SO
and one, Brown, 100. Only one other
county, Miami, reports a condition of
100.
Corn Crop Larger Than Last Year.
Corn-The total yield of corn this
year was 152, 810,884 bushels, from s.,
5S9,6S2 acres, worth on the farms where
raised, as estimated by the growers,
$76, 402,327. Although ranking fourteenth
in aggregate yield, it is fourth in value.
While this years crop outmeasures last
years by almost six million bushels, it
is not worth SO much by $685., 900, ow-
ing to decline in prices averaging
about 612 cents per bushel.
By far the better yields per acre were
In the 81 counties comprising practical
ly the northeastern quarter of the state.
Among these counties, too, are those
having the larger aggregate yields, as
Marshall, the years banner corn coun-
ty, with 4,832,96 bshe1s, Nemaha, adj
| Joining on the east, with 1856, 1S4 bush
els. and Washington, on the west, with
4,44S,375 bushels. Jewell 1850, $40 bushels,
Republic 4,275,726 and Brown 1000, 500
bushels. Smith county, also one of the
northern tier counties and adjoining
this territory on the west, ranks Sec
| ond in yield, with 1858, 899 bushels. On
| a fraction less than 40 per cent of the
| area planted the 80 counties referred to
gave So per cent or 85.642335 bushels,
! of the states yield. In many of the
counties in the southern and western
parts the crop was quite discouraging.
killed wheat were planted to corn last
spring. making the acreage the largest
in the history of the state.
A Big Oats Crop.
Oats-The yield of 53.99.474 bushels of
oats for 1910 is Kansas second largest,
and lacking only 671,581 bushels of
equalling the record crop of 1888. This
AL, 607. compared with 12,470,908 for that
Of 1888, and exceeds in value that of
, 1909 by IS, 1878. In yield it is II per
cent more than twice as much as the
acres of abandoned wheat were sown
to oats, and the total acreage conse-
quently was larger than any other year.
excepting one. The average yield per
acre has been exceeded only once in
the preceding 81 years. Sumner is cas-
lily the foremost in oats, having 1885,,
507 bushels, Mcpherson second with o.,
797,200 bushels. Dickinson third with
2,065. 946 bushels, Labette fourth with
1888, S65 bushels, and Marion fifth with
/ 2,015, 772 bushels. The eleven counties
each having between one and two mil
lion bushels are Brown. Clay, Cloud,
Cowley, Crawford, Harvey. Marshall,
Reno, Republic, Sedgwick and Wash
ington.
other Crops and Live Stock-The po-
tato crop of $3.50, 995 bushels is less by
nearly $4,000 600 bushels than last years,
and worth 81, 566,9 02, or less by 100000.
Barley, especially important to western
Kansas, where it is principally grown,
exceeds the yield of 1909 by 81, 900 bush
els, making this years aggregate A.
627 ,255 bushels, worth s2,034,022, or $780,
500 more. All forage is worth more than
in the preceding year. The value of the
sorghums, for instance, on an acreage
only slightly increased is larger by near
ly $2,000,000, while tame and prairie
hays both average in the neighborhood
of 81 per ton more. Broom corn, pro-
badly owing to the high prices that
prevailed the preceding season, doubled
its acreage and its tonnage is larger by
131 per cent. but the gross value shows
gain of only So per cent A remark
able rise in flax prices of nearly 100
per cent made this years crop unusually
valuable.
There are more horses, mules and
sheep but fewer cattle and hogs, but
prices ranged higher on all classes, no.
tably hogs, on which the increase per
head amounted to 80 per cent
Kansas Crops and Products I'm 1910.
The yields and values of the years crops
and products are as follows:
Value.
Winter and spring wheat SLOT, SS9
bushels Observation-Disclosures 81, 7S5, 965
Corn 152, s10,sS4 bushels ........... IS 400, 32s
Oats So, 993, 474 bushels. .......... Is al, sos
Rye 246, 500 bushels 1892
Barley 4,627, 225 bushels. 2034, 022
Enlrner (Speltz) 1,119,009 bushels. 504, 458
Irish and sweet potatoes 5,S8S, 995
bushels -.-.-..-... ...-.-..-.-.. 4ooo.SO5
Castor beans. cotton. and to-
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