The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-29
POOR CORN CROP
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year amounts to 72s, 900. which is less
by 677.747 acres, or 42.6 per cent.
given as SIS per cent. or 14.4 points
higher than year ago at about the
same date.
The acreage of milo is 227. 900. or
174.SS1 acres less than in 1918. and its
general average condition is 76.5 per
cent. This crop is grown principally
in the southwestern counties.
There is a 81 per cent decrease in
the acreage of feterita. The planting
this year amounted to 76.S0o acres,
The condition of the growing crop is
1874 per cent.
There were 71e, 900 acres planted to
cane in Kansas this year. or $4,000
acres less than in 1918. Its average
condition is 1853 per cent.
Sudan grass crop continues to grow
in popularity in Kansas. The acre
age planted this year amounts to 10S.-
900 acres, as against 1916 acres last
year. Its general average condition is
| rs per cent.
Only a little more than one-third
as much broom corn was planted this
| year as in 1918. A year ago the acre
age was 81, 1922 and now it is 2O,3S4
acres. The condition of the growing
crop is rated at 72.5 per cent. By
| far the bulk of the states broom corn
! is annually produced in a dozen or so
| counties in the southwestern part.
The second cutting of alfalfa, while
! considerably delayed in many locali-
ties because of damage by cut worms.
| returned fair yield, aggregating
| 1,056.00O tons OF excellent hay, or
| about SIS of a ton to the acre. The
third cutting. where harvested, is con-
| siderably lighter and may average less
! than one-half a ton to the aNre.
Probably three-fourths of the state
| los counties left more or less alfalfa
| for a seed crop, amounting altogether
! to as much, perhaps, as 3 per cent of
| the total of 1855, 900 acres in alfalfa.
Nearly every county in the eastern
| half promises to produce some seed.
| altho aside from the usual seed-yield-
/ ing centers in the west, it appears that
| few counties in the western half will
| mature an alfalfa seed crop this year.
| AS reported a month ago, the yield
! of prairie hay promises to be 1,1S6,0OO
tons, as against $4,000 tons in 1918.
| Grasshoppers are still in evidence in
nearly all portions of the state, altho
| more numerous in the western coun-
| ties, where they are dana ging all
| ly the alfalfa and corn. Elsewhere
the damage by the pest has not been
| so serious. Chinch bugs are noted in
a few southeastern counties, in the
| corn and kat1r.
Pastures are reported as good" to
| medium" in all the counties of the
state. except about a dozen. where
they are rated as poor" S in several
! of the Kansas river counties, and in
the more important grazing counties
of Butler, Marion and Mcpherson.
Stock water Is abundant everywhere.
Wheat Yield Figures.
Threshiug returns to date indicate
a 2 WELD / III
bushels to the acre as reported in July
| NAV be maintained, and that the pros
pective aggregate yield of 59,OO0OeO
bushels. as estimated a month ago is
pretty certain to be realized, approx
mately. Grades appear to be running
now about as reported in July, when
the growers estimated that two-thirds
| of the crop would grade Nos. and 3,
| about per cent as No. l, 20 per cent
No. 4, Sc as No. 5, and per cent as
states crop has already been mar
keted, according to the present can
vass.
owing to the widespread discussion
concerning the government wheat
| grades and discounts, il was deemed
desirable to secure first-h hand express
sions from a considerable number OF
| farmers of Kansas on these points
and hence tie boards correspondents
were asked if they believed the gov
eminent graoeS equltaDie ana just anu
the discounts for Nos. 2 and wheat
| reasonable and fair. AT 55S replies
323 say that they do not regard the
| government wheat grades as equitable
and Just. while 235 are favorable to
the federal grades. That there exists
| quite a difference of opinion among
| the farmers themselves is further in
| dicated by the fact that the boards re-
| porters in the big majority of the
counties are divided on the question
In only a few counties have those re-
| porting been unanimous in their re-
plies. In ten counties, the correspond
ents reporting are all of one mind
that the grades are unjust; in six other
Icounties reporters are equally unani-
nous in their belief that the grades
are just.
Considering the matter of discount:
as scheduled by the United State;
Grain corporation, of the 604 repor-
tiers expressing themselves, 367 say
| the discounts are not reasonable and
fair and 237 have no fault to find. A
| digest of 271 replies to the effect thai
| the government discounts are unjust
| to the farmer. shows that 124 are OF
the opinion that the discounts on No
| and No. are too great and do not
represent fairly the difference be
tween these grades and NO l. either
in food value or milling value; 81
believe the discounts are too great be-
! cause millers use ehese grades freely
in making standard flour that sells al