The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-24
Sad, Sad News i'm Mothers
August Crop Report.
Too Much Hot Weather Cause
for Big Slump.
YIELD OF so MILLION BUSHELS
But Farmers Are Holding 54
Millions of Wheat.
And the Price of Grain Jumps
Out of Sight.

Kansas will produce a. bare third of
a corn crop this year. That is the sad,
and news in the August crop report by
]. c. Mohler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture. Too much hot
weather is the cause for the slump of
nearly 100000 bushels in the state
corn yield. The state yield will be 3d.
100000 bushels
But there is yet a word of cheer in
the report.
Listen:
Mothers reporters found tina. 54,-
100000 bushels of wheat-6O per cent
Of the years CROPS yet in the hands
of the Kansas farmers. That means
millions of dollars. And the price of
wheat is on the jump in the big mar
ket centers
The recent drouth-Mohler's prede-
cessol referred to such seasons as
periods of deferred precipitation
cost Kansas farmers many millions of
dollars. Seven weeks ago the outlook
for corn crop in Kansas was the hest
ever. The acreage broke all former
records. But the drouth came to Kan
sas and Mohler looked facts and con-
dItions squarely in the face and ad-
mitted that the state would produce
a bare 100000 bushels of corn from
its 6,e21, 900 acres planted to the crcr.
Mothers Own Story.
This is the story in Mohler's own
words:
Corn-Continued dry. hot weather
during the past month very materially
reduced the prospect for corn, and
correspondents now estimate that the
prospective yield for the state is ap-
proximately 100000 bushels. This
| is little more than third Of an av-
erage annual yield. The area planted
1T
| 921, 900 acres. So far as merchantable
| corn is concerned the crop is prac-
| tically failure in many counties. save
| in occasional areas favored by location,
as in the valleys, and those having the
advantage of local rains. A notable
however, is afforded by conditions in
| the four northeastern counties of
Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha and Mar
shall, where average yields per acre of
| %, Is, 8 and 19 bushels. respectively,
are promised. Riley county is next
best with 16 bushels. followed by Atch-
ison with IA bushels to the acre. In
dicated acre-yields in Jewell and
Smith, which rank first and second in
| acreage planted, are IL and 10 bushels,
respectively The crop IN eleven coun-
| ties aggregates 100000 bushels or
more each, Marshall leading with g.
45S,Oo0 bushels, followed by Brown,
3,O85,0oO bushels, Nemaha, 2,867,
Jewell 2,247,000, Smith 1928, O00,
Doniphan 1913, 700, Pottawatomie L.
| 272, 900, Riley 1,264,0 900, Republic L.
100000 Dickinson 100000 and Cloud
| 1,021,000 bushels. Turnout the state
considerable corn has been cut for fod-
| der, and many are ensiling it.
| The Sorghums-The present season
subjects the sorghums to another test
! of their dry-weather-resistin powers.
While they have suffered no little
damage, the opinion prevails that the
sorghums yet retain sufficient vitality
| to respond with creditable yields
| should general rains come soon. The
total area in kafir is 1888, 900 acres,
having a general average condition of
Al per cent; milo 100000 acres, con-
dition As; feterita 100000 acres, condi-
ton 40; sweet sorghums, cane" 49,
planted to all the sorghums is less than
| thirds of which is accounted for by
| the decrease in feterita, while the
| other third is in milo.
Broomcorn-The broomcorn acre
age is 27,300, gain of nearly 5000
acres over last year. Its average con-
dition is 45.5. This crop is grown
| principally in seven or eight counties
| of the extreme southwest.
| Prairie Hay and Alfalfa.-The prai-
| rie hay output, of excellent quality,
amounts to about 1,179,0O0 tons, or
an average of practically one ton to
| the acre. The third cutting of al
faIfa was short. Where harvested, it
yielded IN most places one-fourth to
one-half ton of hay per acre, while