The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-29

! Dickinson, are in that tier, namely:
! Brown, Nemaha, Phillips, Republic
and Washington. The highest average
yield per acre is reported from Lin
coin, amounting to 43 bushels; fol-
lowed by Brown and Geary wi h AZ;
Cloud, Dickinson, Doniphan and Sa-
line with Al; and Chase with 10 bush
els. The average yield per acre in
Smith county, as in Marshall, was 3S
bushels; while Jewell reported SO
bushels
Other Crops.
Oats-The yield of oats is 34.SO4,-
OS5 bushels, averaging 24.4 bushels
per acre, and it is worth S13, 037.SS9;
as against a crop of 45,349,0 900 BUSH
els last year, valued at S17,7SO, 600.
northumberland the produc-
ton of non-Saccharine sorghuns has
been given in tons only, which would
appear to classify the m chiefly as for
age. However, as they are grown
both for grain and for forage, it is
deemed adVisa BILE to show the weld
and value of grain in bushels and t1e
tonnage and value of the stover as
Wen as the tonnage and value of sor-
ghums for hay.
A summary reveals that Kansas this
year produced O,236,177 bushels of
sorghum grain. worth $13,S96,344,
while the stover (the forage after har-
Vestng the Srain) amounted to $780,
004 tons, worth $6,411S07. This makes
kafir, of course, is the chief of these
sorghums. Its yield of grain is 21,-
633,11O bushels, while that of milo is
4,O33, All bushels, and of feterita
1896, $50 bushels The returns show
also that the tonnage of kafir slower
is not only much the heaviest per acre
but is worth more per ton than that
of milo or feterita. The slower yield
s5,0S9,400; of milo, 3OO,O77 tons
worth $4S9.00S, and of feterita 474,793
tons. worth SSS3,39 The yield of
sorghum hay this year is 575S12 tons.
The total value of the states sor-
ghum crop, including all varieties of
the saccharine and nOn-saccharine
sorts, for forage and grain, hay and
seed, amounts to $27,551,275.
Alfalfa-In the past specific
statistical information about alfalfa
has been available in the board re-
ports except as to acreage. The yield
was accounted for under the general
head Tame Hay" which included the
hay of clover, timothy. and all other
plants belonging in that classification.
As Kansas is the premier alfalfa pro-
ducer, and this legume is constantly
increasing in Importance in the states
agricultural development and prosper
ity, it is deemed desirable to treat it
as a separate and distinct crop. 1t is
figured strictly on a hay basis, as the
best means of approXimating it's value. 4
Under this method, correspondents
report an average yield per acre this /
year of "a tons. making the total pro-
duction 4,647,07S tons. worth S2S,-
433, $50, or a fraction more than sc |
per ton. This low valuation is attrib-
uted to a high percentage of damaged /
hay, the season having been unfavor- /
able, in the main, for proper curing. |
The states acreage of alfalfa is l.
8 59,49S acres, or a gain over the pre- |
ceding year of 1861 acres.
Our Friend. the Spud.
Pnfafn6S-Tha vie Of TriS
potatoes is 5,13S,S5O bushels, worth
70S,342 bushels last year. valued at .
since 1909.
the greatest in the history of the state,
to 1O,4O5,6 47 bushels,
which is an average of a little less
than 80 bushels to the acre, and the
crop is worth $4,399,469. The barley
is grown principally in the western
part of the state.
Millet-With a smaller acreage and .
a larger yield, the value of the years
nillet of s1.035,74O, is less by about
$170. 900 than in 1914.
Prairie Hay-The yield is extra
large, with quality somewhat lower
than the average because of the wet
summer, according to reports. No def
mite figures as to tonnage and values
are available, owing to the custom of
receiving the output figures in the fol-
lowing year, through assessors 1t is
the intention to hereafter secure these
statistics for current years. The
prairie hay in this report is of the