The Topeka state journal., 1918-11-27
largest of Any State in Union,
MOhler Reports Today.
Nearly 100000 Acres, With
Condition 96 Per Cent.
NO ARMISTICE WITH HUNGER
Kansas Wages War Against
Famine and World Suffering.
Thirty-Eight Eastern Counties
Show Condition Over 1000.

Kansas wheat growers will never
| enter into an armistice with hunger
and famine. Farmers of the state
have this year planted the greatest
wheat acreage ever known by any
state in the United States. ]. c.
Mohler, secretary of the state board
| of agriculture, today estimated the
winter wheat acreage at 10,825.631
| acres with conditions at 90 per cent
| 26 points above conditions year ago
and but one point below 1913. which
| gave the state her record breaking
yield of 1S1 100000 bushels of grain
in 1914 from a planting of 100000
acres
Thirty eight counties-al1 in the
| eastern half of the State-have condi-
| tions in excess of 100 per cent. Clay
county leads the state with a condition
| of 109-based on the normal condition
| for 100 per cent showing. In the
| northwest quarter of the state the
average is more than ninety, while in
| the southwest quarter conditions for
the most part are below ninety, but
above eighty. Wichita and Scott
| counties are the only ones in the
eighty per cent class. Weather condi-
tions in the state have been excellent.
Shows Rank Growth.
| In the main the new crop shows a
rank growth. The magnitude of the
| Kansas wheat acreage may be had
from the fact that it exceeds the total
land surface of Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, Delaware and Rhode Island
combined. And Secretary Mohler
adds the District of Columbia for
| Kansas has for a number of years
| led all other states in wheat acreage.
The showing this fall. however, breaks
| all former Kansas records. For the
| firJt time in the history of the nation
a state has sown more than 10 million
acres to wheat.
In his review of the world breaking
wheat conditions in Kansas, Secretary
Mohler says:
NIobler's Statement.
No armistice with hunger and fam
inc has been signed by the farmers of
Kansas. This is clearly apparent from
the fact that the area they have sown
to winter wheat this fall is by far the
| largest in the states history. Growers
estimate it as amounting to 10.S25, 631
acres. This is 9.3 per cent greater than
| in 1917, which year ranked next. Kan
sas is the first state in the union to
| have reached, let alone exceeded, the
| 10-miliion- acre mark in wheat, thus
more firmly establishing her long
maintained leadership in wheat grow
ing.
| The season has been most favorable
| for sowing, termination and growth,
| and the general average condition is
, 90, on the basis of 100 representing a
! Satisfactory SITUATION. lIllS Is 20 pOlnlS
higher than a year ago, 20 points
! greater than 1916, and one point lower
than in the fall of 1913. on 9,062, 900
acres that the following year produced
! the record-smashing crop of $50 mill
| lion bushels. In the fall of 1900, the
| average condition was 9e.7. on an
acreage 81 per cent less, but which
produced, according to the United
State department of agriculture, near
'1y 100 million bushels. Experience.
/ therefore. would seem to indicate that
when conditions are SO hospitable for
wheat in the fall, as they have been
| this autumn, an excellent crop may be
| expected in the following season, and
there is nothing in the present situa-
ton to encourage any other than the
| highest hopes.
| Thirty-eight counties. all in the
eastern half of the state, have condi-
| tions of more than 100, the highest be-
| ing 100. in Clay. In the northwest
quarter the average is more than 80,
while in the southwest quarter condi-
tions for the most part are under 90,
the lowest being 80, in Wichita and
| Scott. While soil and weather condi-
| tiOnS have been excellent in the west
! ern counties, reseeding was necessary
some extent in this region, owing to
! damage from grasshoppers, and be-
cause of the presence of these pests,
sowing was delayed in many localities.
The later sown wheat. while COM
parat1vely small, is good stand and
thrifty. Quite generally wheat is of
rank growth, and the excellent pas
turage it affords is a boon to stock
men-a very valuable and timely COM
plement to the high-priced and limited
feed supply.
Cover Land of Four States,
A more adequate comprehension of
the magnitude of the Kansas wheat
field this fall may perhaps be had
from the statement that it exceeds the
total land surface of the four states
of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Della
ware and Rhode Island combined with
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