The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-27
our CROP VALUES
Cohlrn Places Them with Live
Stock Added ct 5O7 Millions.

Stock Added ct 5O7 Millions.
The Drouth Did Not Mako Kan.
sas Farmer . Pauper.
A report giving a summary of the
years agriculture in Kansas il issued
today by F. d. Coburn OF the state
board of agriculture. It says:
Despite the unseasonableness OF the
rainfall for growing crops last sun-
mer. the aggregate value of farm
products, with live stock added, Is
found to be $5o7. 900. 900. an amount
exceeded only by the four years inn
mediately preceding. The value OF
the crops, however. is less than Tor
any year since 1901. and about $685.
0OO, 900 under that of q year ago. IT
is evident, therefore, that the short
age is attributable in the main to
low yields, for prices as a general
thing have ruled high. The increased
value of live stock and its products
is what has held up the total: tho
worth Of other farm products, as AMI
mails slaughtered or sold for slaugh-
ter, butter. cheese. poultry, eggs. gar
den stun and fruit. are in each In
stance greater, and total in value
nearly $12,0o0.000 more than the year
before.
This year corn. usually first in inn
portance, ranks fourth in value.
wheat. hay and the sorghums pre-
ceding in the order named, with oats
crowding closely. The detailed report
shows no yields Of certain crops for
some counties where there were pos
sibly scattering fields that matured
measurable product. but these did not
amount to enough to enable intelli-
gent estimates of averages on the
acreage planted or sown, and while
Of some worth on the farm. their
quality and quantity precluded giving
them dependable valuations.
The Kansas yield of corn in 1913 ID
IS, 42O,O52 bushels, the smallest since
1874, with little, II any, of CONNER
cial grades, while wheat, with its total
Of 72,45S,051 bushels, and oats. with
2S, 1925, SIT bushels. exceed the 2O-year
average.
Wheat.-wheat stands out promi-
nently as by far the most important
soil product Of Kansas in 1913. judged
by its value, which was $56,375,4IO.
OF the total yield 72,13S,699 bushels
is winter wheat and 31S.s52 bushels
spring wheat, the latter produced, as
in former years, almost exclusively In
a half-dozen northwestern counties.
It's total value exceeds that OF the
years corn, oats, Kafir and tame hay
combined. In volume 1t ranks
eleventh, and in value fifth. although
the price per bushel averages less
than any year since 1907, or 77.8
cents. The decline in prices caused
not a few to hold stocks on hand, and
as a consequence of dear corn (only
a little below wheat and the highest
since 1870 it is reported that consid-
cradle wheat will be fed to live stock.
Reno county, with 3.S35,785 bushels
leads in wheat, and Pratt. adjoining
on the southwest, with 2,799,OSO
bushels is second. The higher aver
age yields per acre. however. were in
the counties further east and north,
as Brown, with 27 bushels, the high
est; Chase and Pottawatomie with "a
bushels; Nemaha and Wabaunsee, %;
Riley and Marshall, %, and Geary
and Republic, FL bushels.
Oats.-The bulk of the oats was
raised in the eastern half of the state,
where the yields, as a general thing.
were good. Labette and Sumner
counties, on the Oklahoma border,
were the leaders with 1,617,756 and
1,267,056 bushels, respectively. Sedg-
wick and Montgomery. also southern
counties. and Marshall and Brown. in
| the northeast, have one million BUSH
| els or more each.
The sorgl1ums.-While the sor-
ehums were materially curtailed In
output, they produced In the aggre-
gate considerable forage. but the
grain yield on the whole was. as
might be expected, comparatively
short.
Alfalfa and hay-Alfalfa has again
| demonstrated its worth as a dry-weatn-
| er-resisting plant, and impressed all
with its incompatible worth. A season
like the one Just past inevitably In
| creases the already high appreciation
of this wonderful perennial. While its
cuttings of hay were not so numer-
Gus or SO heavy as in some years the
seed crop was the largest ever har-
vested, and the two products. hay and
| seed. enabled it to live up to its repu-
| tation of being our most profitable
| crop.
| Other crops-The Irish potato crop OF
| 2946, 3O8 bushels is the smallest in years,
and 1,7S2, 900 bushels less than in 1912,
but worth more per bushel. Broom corn
| and barley, both grown principally in
| western Kansas, were much below nor
NAL in product. the broom corn on a
! greatly diminished acreage, yielding g.
OF, $50 pounds as against 2S.2S0.5 S4
pounds last year. and barley on an in
creased acreage producing 1,759, 002
bushels, against 2.s33,537 bushels in
1912.
Kansas Crops and Products In 1913
The yields and values Of the years
crops and products are as follows:
| Bus, lbs,
tons, gal. Value
Winter and spring wheat. q. 45s.o51 SIS s75. AZ
Corn .1S 42O.O02 1878, AZ
Oats .....................-2S.1 25.6U 1895
Rye NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 568.s83 IA, 30l
Emmer C"speitz'o. ........ 7.oe2 s.5i1
Buckwheat 476 "A