The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-05
This Years Yield Of Wheat in
State 81 Millions.
is LOWEST FOR YEARS
Quality of the Grain Was Ex-
cellent.
Corn Prospects Below Average
But Improving.

Secretary F. d. Cobur- of the state
board of agriculture, in his August
crop report estimates the winter wheat
crop for Kansas at 51.365 600 bushels
from an acreage of 7.26O,O 900 acres.
He estimates the acreage of corn at
1851, 900 acres with conditions at 54s
for the state. The wheat crop is nine
million bushels less that last year. The
secretary declares that The corn pros
pect is not flattering, bu- the rains of
the past few days will help corn in
many localities. The ground is now
in fine shape for fall sowing. The sec
retary's report in full follows:
The present inquiry reveals that the
winter wheat crop of Kansas in 1911
was 51,365.0O bushels, or nearly nine
million bushels under that of 1910,
and the smallest since 1929. 1t is one
third less than the average yearly pro-
duction for the decade ending with
1910.
From the assessors returns from IS
counties it appears, however, that the
acreage sown to wheat last fall was
considerably in excess of that indicat-
ed in earlier unofficial reports. In
April correspondents estimated that
the probab acreage sown in wheat ag-
gregated 6,950,000 acres while the Of
fetal returns for the 8S counties, and
approximations from reliable data for
the other II, make it nearly 100000
acres, or the greatest in the history of
the state the next largest having been
! 7,233,2S3 acres sown in 1906. This
years acreage figures as given here,
/ however, are subject to such changes
as the sustitutiOn of the assessors
returns for the II counties will make.
Likewise the statement as to yield is
preliminary and the final figures may
be modified somewhat according to the
later returns, when threshlng is more
nearly completed, but such variations
will be of minor importance, and the
present figures should serve every
practical purpose
OF the 100000 acres of wheat
sown, the growers now estimate that
81 per cent was a failure This de-
Quoted left 4.597.O79 acres from which
this years crop was harvested.
Highest Yields in Eastern Kansas.
The counties having the highest
average yields per acre are without ex-
ception in the eastern third of the
state, Lyon leading with % bushels.
and Doniphan and Coffey next with
25 bushels each. Others reporting 20
or more bushels per acre are: Chase,
Usage, Brown, Jefferson, Woodson,
Elk Pottawatomie, Shawnee and
Wyandotte. The counties with the lar
gest acreages. however. are farther
west, and in many of these the losses
were heavy, not a few, especially in
the western third, reporting practically
total failures. Yields per acre grad
ually diminished from east to west,
and in five or six counties no wheat
was harvested.
on the whole the quality of the
crop is reported more than usually
excellent and of extreme weight the
medium grades being limited mostly
to those portions where yields were
lightest. Only three counties west OF
the 99th meridian report so much rs
10 bushels per acre. Even though the
higher yields per acre were in the
eastern third of the state, the eighteen
counties having one million bushels or
more each are, with one exception, in
the central third, and aggregate 27,-
SS2334 bushels. or about 54 per cent
Of the total crop. Three counties
have more than two million bushels
each: Reno, leading with 2,841, 26o
bushels. followed by Stafford with
2,35O.561, and Barton with 2,SlO, l43
bushels.
Corn Condition Low.
Corn-Contrary to popular belief,
| the acreage in corn is markedly less
than year ago. Incomplete assessors
returns indicate a planting of about
6,930.000 acres, and adding to this the
abandoned wheat acreage reported
7.6S133O acres, or Is per cent less
than the states average annual acre
age. Special pains were taken to ver-
ify the corn acreage in view of the
fact that the United States department
Of agriculture has reported Kansas as
having planted more than nine million
acres of corn.
Generally the corn prospect is not
fattering, the average of its condition
being but 54-3. for the state. Smith
,1csfs 90 2
county Doniphan is next with So. al
though some of its neighbors north 81
the Kansas river are among those W.T.
the least promising prospects Tie VI
tality of much corn was SO impaired oS
unusual weather conditions and belatet
rains that recent rainfall has not, ir
some localities, brought the revival thai
was hoped for and considerable VII
produce little or no grain
Reports from farmers IN the SAM
counties often vary widely, suggesting
lack of uniform conditions even in th'
adjacent neighSo1 hoods. One field may
promise fairly. while others nearb.
may be of little worth.
, Rains-Rains Of from one to tel
inches that within the past ten day!
i have visited nearly every section Of III
state. with the showerY condiulons still
prevailing. are working marveiop
changes and imprCN ement in the gen
; eraI situation In some localities tn
rains came too late to assure the corr
crop but will be Ct inestimable Valu
for all forage, in supplying abundan
water and by insuring Inc fah pasrur
age for live stock. Likewise. the groun'
I generally is in excellent condition 70
, fan blowing and seeding. and this wori
viii now be energetically pushed in al
quarters.
The following table shows, by ccun
: ties, the area sown. the area harvest
ed and the Yield Of winter wheat il