The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1916-04-20
MISSOURI AND KANSAS
COMPARED.
Some Figures on the Wheat and
Corn Yield of the Two
States.

Because the Eastern press ha.
with few exceptions failed to d,
Justice to Missouri the following
figures are submitted by the Mis-
souri, Agricultural Bureau.
During the 1O-year period
19O5-'14, the Missouri corn yielc
amounted to 2,O39, 10000 bush:
! els; the Kansas yield to 1,456,418,
600 bushels, or 582,750,000 bush.
els less than Missouri. Total
Missouri corn acreage for the 10
year period was 72,617,000; Kan
sas acreage, 1851 900, or 1884,
600 acres more than Missouri.
Kansas, with an acreage, for the
10-year period, more than a mil
lion and half greater than that
planted to corn in Missouri fell
short more thas half billion
bushels.
But isn't Kansas wheat Won
der? Yes, during the 10-year
period referred to Kansas grew
852,3S2,OO0 bushels of wheat !;
Missouri 300, 802,O00 bushels, or
542, 5S0,00O bushels less than Kan
sas. But note the difference in
acreage, and keep, in mind the
corn comparisons.
Instead Of the largest yield
coming from the fewest number
of acres, as was the case with
corn, the Kansas wheat acreage
| for the decade was 59,824, 900;
Missouri wheat acreage, 21,S04,-
900, or 3S,02O,000 less than Kan
sas.
In order to grow slightly more
than half billion bushels more
of wheat than was grown in Mis-
souri,, Kansas, during the decade,
seeded thirty-eight million more
acres.
During this 10Ycar period
(19O5- IA the combined corn and
wheat production of Missouri was
2,34S, 100000 bushels; the com
bined corn and wheat production
of Kansas 2,30S, 100000 bushels,
or 4O,170,00O bushels less than
that Of Missouri.
The Missouri acreage of both
wheat and corn for the 1O-year
period was 94,421, 900; Kansas
acreage, 134,175,OO0, or 39,754,-
900 acres more than Missouri.
During the 1O-year period,
then, Missouri, with forty million
fewer acres in corn and wheat
grew forty million more bushels
than were grown in Kansas.
For the 10-year period, 1890
1889, Missouri averaged PA
bushels of corn per acre; Kansas
1856 bushels. For the period,
1S9O-1S99, Missouri averaged PA
bushels per acre; Kansas, 21.3 .
bushels; for the last census per- ;
ion, 1900 1909, Missouri averaged {
1856 bushels per acre; Kansas, ga
bushels. The Missouri acre in
crease in corn for the decade
190O-1909 over the decade 1880. |
1889 was IL bushels. The Kansas {
decrease in acre yield Of corn lor {
the corresponding periods was !
lG.2 bushels. - {
In 1915 eight Missouri counties I
grew as much corn as was grown |
in eighteen states of the Union. 1
One Missouri county alone grew ]
as much corn as was grown in 4
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, l
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Montana Wyoming; s
New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Ne v
ada, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, t
" California. Comparing the +
l915 corn yield of the eight Mis- '
ouri counties referred to with 2
he total yield of some of the lead l
ng Corn Belt states, we find that b
was more than one-sixth that of II
indiana; more than one-fifth that b
# Texas, Kansas or Ohio; more 1
han One-fourth that of Oklaho- II
ma; almost one-third that of Ken a
ucky, and more than twice that y
# Arkansas. Of the forty-eight o
tates in the Union, only two t
illinois and IOwa-excel Missouri
n total corn production. s
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