The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-09
CROPS Are SHORT
E. C. Paxton Makes Report on
Conditions in Kansas.
Farmers Liberal Borrowers for
Seed Wheat.


government crop report for Kansas
! issued by Edward c. Paxton, field
agent, forecasts production of 49,
$4,000 bushels of corn in the state
! this year. This represents a growing
condition of 20 per cent for the state
! or per cent less than month ago.
!, The September weather was favora BILE
for maturing such corn as promised
any yield a month ago. Killing frosts
occurred over portions of the state
about September 20, but found mos.
| of the corn near enough mature to
| suffer little or no damage. Tho this
years crop will total less than half
as much as was produced last year,
! there will undoubtedly be more corn
| of merchantable grade. Wherever
corn was produced in Kansas this year
| it is quite normally matured and will
| be of fair average feeding and keeping
| quality.
Big Seed Wheat Loans.
Seeding for the new wheat crop
progressed rapidly turnout the past
month. In some counties it is nearly
| complete, but in parts of the, western
| half has been delayed on account of
/ the prevalence of hoppers which have
1 already severely damaged early sown
| wheat. The government seed wheat
loans were better received than earlier
reports indicate. Up to October 1
1861 Kansas farmers had applied for
loans thru the Wichita land bank for
| an aggregate of almost a million dol
| lars; 3,185 applications had been ap-
| proved by Mr.: EStabroOk and his ad-
visers; 329 rejected for various causes
and 147 were get outstanding for cor
| rection. Loans made in Kansas will
probably total up to 100000, which
ought to be sufficient to purchase seed
Gov hall Iii
far toward maintaining last year.
| acreage in the western third of the
| state where early Indications were for
| a decided slump. The central third of
the state will probably show at least
as large an acreage as last year.
| Practically all the counties of the east
| ern third promise increases.
Oats Crop Short.
Preliminary estimates indicate ar
| average yield of % bushels of oats per
acre this year compared with 81
! bushels in 1917. and 26.4 the ten-year
| average. This makes a total produc-
ton for the state of 52,003,0O0 bushels,
which is 1891 900 bushels less than
| last years production, which was the
| largest oat crop ever produced in the
| state. The average quality of the oats
| produced this year is rated at 80 per
cent, based upon 100 representing an
| average medium commercial grade.
| lis COIupdIeS TdJH6T unIdVOrd Dly
! with the IS per cent quality of the
| l917 crop and is per cent less than
| the ten-year average quality of S.
| The low grade of oats this year is at
| tributable partially to smut, but
| largely to the 1ightness of the grain,
| which was caused by the prema ture
| ripening during the drouthy period ex-
| pefienced in June
| Preliminary estimates indicate an
average yield of 10 bushels Of barley
per acre. Last years yield was esti-
| mated at 10 bushels and the ten-year
average is 17.2 bushels. The states
total production this year is at pres
ent estimated at 100000 bushels.
| IL Sorghum Hurt Late.
| Grain sorghum condition on Octo-
Der is rated at So per cent, or points
lower than a month ago. The depre-
citation in condition is largely due to
the killing frost that occurred over
| large portions of the state the third
week of September. which caught a
| large acreage of the kaf1r stu far
from maturity.
| Preliminary estimates indicate an
| average yield of 294 pounds of broom
| corn per acre. The ten-year average
yield is 334 pounds. The average yield
OF spring wheat is estimated at 8
| bushels per acre with a quality of "A
| per cent. The condition of fax for
| seed at time of harvest is rated at 81
| per cent, compared with SO a year
| ago and 70 the ten-year average. The
! average yield of alfalfa seed this year
| is estimated at rs bushels per acre.
| compared with 80 bushels last wear
| and 81 bushels the Six-year ayera ge