The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-25

6,752, PCS acres.
wheat is grading good. testing as high as
sixty-one pounds average to the bushel In
some Counties To the west ana nor aIiaO OF
wheat, but the grade is by no means uni
formly good.
usual and every effort is being made to
relieve the wheat shortage by promptly
% per cent of the crop is already threshed,
and. correspondents state it as their belief
that 90 per cent of the states wheat this
year will be sold direct from the threshlng
machine, altho even now there are frequent
complaints of failure to secure cars when
needed It is estimated that 81 per cent
of this years wheat was harvested with
the binder, some twenty counties In the
eastern part of the state using the binder
exclusively, and 1t is further estimated
that fwo-thirds of the bound wheat will be
threshed from the shock, or approximately
Corn-Assessors' returns and county
clerks reports that have been received
from ninety-eig Of the states 100 coun.
correspondents of slightly more than T.
100000 acres to be devoted to corn were
too high. The present official data. prac.
ticaIly complete for the state, show that
Kansas actually planted approximately
6.31s, 900 acres. The average condition on
cent, a decline of ga points from the re-
was 50, but 242 points higher than the
condition of the states corn crop in July
la hasn't 600 acres less tban IN is17 is
not far short of the average for the five
year period of 1913-1917. Dry, hot weather
is the cause of the decreased prospect
since July 15
Marked depreciation Is reported in many
Of the important corn growing counties,
northern. tier. and in a l number e5 Of a the
southeastern counties, where, for example,
in June, Montgomery reported the condi-
ton Of its crop at So AND 8
region dry weather caught the corn in
tasseIing period. and to this is ascribed
the damage. Corn in the Kansas river
in the
| ties, and in a number of the middle coun-
| ties of the central third. shows improve
side of the Kansas river counties the soil
| is at present reported too dry in the east
with a few exceptions, soil conditions are
such as to favor the rapid growth of
corn. The fields are unusually clean and
Oats-Continued unfavorable weather
has caused further, depreciation in the oats
crop, and this along with deduction of
| IS, 600 acres in accord with official asses
sors' returns, account for the decrease
of 10000 bushels in the prospective
month ago. The estimate now is for a
probable crop of 55,OOO,OOo bushels, or an
last months prospect Of 2s.9 bushels. Re-
ported acre yields in few of the more
prominent oats growing counties, mostly
Well to earlier estimates. In many coun-
ties in the western half of the state much
of So 100000 bushels, however, would make
the years output rank second in bulk.
being surpassed only by the states oats
Barley~The extreme heat and lack of
moisture during the dough or milk stages,
which affected spring grains generally =.
now is that the states crop will amount to
about 100000 bushels, or loss of fully
yield reported thirty days ago. As barley
is most extensively sown in the region
where wheat largely failed. it appears that
centage of wheat land that would be sown
to barley, as assessors returns and sup
area actually sown to barley approximated
6SSo0O acres, as against 146,700 acres pre-
viously reported: This is factor that
acre yield Of 2S.4 bushels indicated a
month ago is decreased to 11.3 bushels
e and f- T Sa1 oaf much PAR barley
barley is almost wholly grown in the west
ern half, and the counties leading in
western part. Thomas sowed more barley
than any other county, or total of SO ,00a
and naxs W essb9F
one-sixth of the states total barley
yid acre 81 twenty and
twenty-five bushels, respectively, now
Of Kansas last year amounted to 4,011 00C
bushels.
Potatoes-The potato crop has also suf-
and where harvesting has been done the
yield is disappointing. In the so-desig-
inclnding the Kansas rVeFF territory Yields
are averaging around fifty bushels to the
acre: and of the twenty -six counties com
prising the commercial region, an aggre
gate output of 1,s1I, O36 bushels is indi.
Gated; as against 2,o32, 901 bushels pro.
per cent Of the states $500 acres PLANTED
The sorghums-Kafir, milo, feterita and
fair" to good in every county. except
Cherokee and Crawford. in the extreme
southeastern corner, where these crops are
Broom Corn-The acreage planted tc
broom corn this year is 81 .S37 acres. oil
average condition of ,,the growing crop i.
so per cent. based on 100 Twelve south
western, counties have 81 900 acres of tn,
aggregated 7s5.s72 tons, or an average o
as shown by later official returns returns. witt
the average yield Of 90 ton on the frs
oo5 tons Of this most v ahaieeq hay
which for the most part was cured ant
stored In excellent condition This year
alfalfa acreage is the second largest Ii
the history Of the state. being exceede,
only in 1915. when 1859, 500 acres wer
devoted to the crop
Pastures and Stock water-The easter
three tiers Of counties and the northern
tier extending westward to and including
Republic mostly report pastures as afford
Ing insufficient grazing for livestock. an
In these. too. as well as in ten or doze
adjoining counties to the west and south
2 there is a shortage of stock water Else
where, with very few exceptions pasturag
, and water are reported ample for stock
Observation-Disclosures are numerous 4
q some OF the western counties and in
i half dozen at least have contributed ex
+ tensiyely to the damage suffered by crop.
No other insects are mentioned anywhere
IGREAT OLD RE