The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-06
Not Diminished by Short Crops
This Year.
Points to High Prices as Offset
to Shortage.
VALUE is S534,56O,OOO
For Total Farm Products of the
State.
e is S534,56O,OOO
Corn 1Os Million Bushels; Wheat
53 Million; Condition 81.

Tnarizins the year 1911, is optimistic
in the face of short crops all along the
line While the yield from wheat ana
corn, the staples, was much less, yet
the secretary finds that the total value
of all farm products for the year
reaches the enormous sum of 1884,
$4,000. He points to high prices 1or
all the farmer has to sell. He esti-
mates the condition of wheat at 81
for the state with the acreage the same
as last year, which is to say, Z 100000
acres The corn crop he estimates at
1O5OOO,0OO bushels and the wheat
crop at 5O,So9,4 ABS bushels. He points
to sorghum as great dry weather
rror and urges that its acreage be in
creased as much in the future as It has
in recent years. The report in full
follows:
Report Most Thorough This Year.
Owing to the many conflicting and
contradictory statements about the Pc
cuIiar season and its crop results Sec
retarv Coburn has caused his investi-
cations for this report to be, II pos
sible, more thoroughly exhaustive and
states history. From these, the sec
rotary says, it is pleasing to discover
that despite the high temperatures
and unusually limited rainfall, so gen
eral throughout the country last sum-
mer. the aggregate value of all farm
products. with the live stock on hand, |
is S534,56O,0O0. or only about $1,000
600 less than in the record breaking
year 1910, and more by 100000
than in 1909.
less than for those of last year by |
$3O,OOO,00O. and it is to decreased
yields of the more important crops (
that the net shortage is attributable, /
for the values of the other farm pro-
ducts. as animals slaughtered or sold /
uI1 hIIffPr cheese.
poultry, eggs. garden stuff and fruit, !
are in each instance greater, and total ;
in value $S,O00,0O0 more than in the /
year before. Corn and wheat were
materially curtailed IN yields. Com /
bined they were less In value by about
S26. 100000 than in 1910. and repre-
scented a smaller wealth than in any
year since 1901, excepting 1924, al
though the average price per bushel
(56-7 cents) for corn was the highest
in 81 years. In fact, only in 1864,
'66, 6S. 10 and rs has corn averaged
higher, although there IS but the frac-
tion of a cent between the 1911 and
1909 averages
this year by about S22,000.O0O, but in
Guiding the live stock the difference in :
total value between the two years is re-
duced to about SIS, 600, 600 in favor of
1910. This makes it evident that the
aggregate value of the live stock is
much increased. Not that the average
per head has increased, for there has
been a decrease in each class except
mich COWS, which have gained IS per
head, while other cattle remained the
same. The gain is found in the sub
stantia1 increase in numbers of each,
except in other cattle. In connection
with the enum Grafton of live stock and
the larger value of animals sold for
slaughter, it is proper to say that the
figures are for the year ending March
], 1911. and hence do not cover the
period of any forced selling last sum-
mer, which would be expected to con-
swell the amount for that
sold. and decrease numbers. especially
of beef stock.
Season UnfavorabIe.
Although the season was most IN
favorable for crops in portions of KAN
sas, and to a lesser degree in other
parts. the farmer who MIXED some
cows. had a. flock of fowls. and plant
ed some ground to the never failing
sorghums, probably finds himself in
quite happy circumstances. and those
who for years have been more and
more tending toward this method of
farming doubtless have had a not IN
prosperous year. Parched pastures
and shortage of water caused losses to