The Topeka state journal., 1919-12-24
Greatest Showing In History for
Kansas This Year.
Total Agricultural and Live
Stock, S1,OS7,O0O,000.
CROPS ALONE At S746, 6,512,5OO
This Is Nearly 200 Millions
More Than Last Year.
Slump of 21 Millions in the
Value of Animals.

For the first time in the history of
Kansas. values of farm products and
livestock this year exceeded a billion
dollars. The grand total of agricul-
tural and livestock values is s1.OS7,-
100000. Farm products alone were
this year worth almost an even three
quarter billion dollars, while numbers
and values of all livestock slumped
below the record of a year ago.
Figures issued today by J. c.
Mohler, secretary of the state board of
agriculture. give Kansas farm inter-
tests the greatest boost in history.
Wheat values exceed by more than
for Kansas, altho the bushel yield for
the state was second to the high pro-
duction mark attained in 1914.
Secretary Mohler's figures give
farm crop values of s746, ,512. 500 as
against $592,017,325 last year. Live
or slump of more than 21 million
| dollars below 1918 when values of
animals in Kansas was listed at
1861. .S6S,765.
Two Other Half Billion Crops.
Only on two previous occasions
1917-191S-have farm crop values
passed the half billion dollar mark.
The 1918 record set a new standard
when values of S592.017,325 were re-
ported. In 1917 values of farm crops
were givenlat $5o7.473,7S7. And this
year the figures jump to the three
quarter billion mark. Last year win
ter wheat was valued at 1S5 million
dollars, while in 1917 the value of the
years crop was but S5 million dol
lars This year it reaches a new high
value mark, when Mohlers CORE
spondents estimated the crop to be
worth s2s9.SS6,360.
! Practically all live stock has de-
I u, .,,
the year has been unfavorabie foI
farmers. The big return in values
tho, indicates a generally prosperous
! condition, in spite of the fact that
many stock growers have absorbed
losses which were overcome only thru
| increases in crop values.
| The Report in Detail.
Mohler's report follows:
| For the first time in the annals Of Kan
| sas.. the value of the states farm products
| and livestock this year reached, and In
! fact exceeded, the billion dollar mark
900. This is $133 125.0O0 more than In
1913. the hest prior year. The value OF
field crops is given as $564 ,239; 565, or more
farm products, exclusive of livestock or
hand. are valued at $746, 81, 500, or more by
$154. 100000 than in 1918.
Increased productions of the states prln
cipal crops, except oats, and prices thai
have ruled high, are responsible for th'
recoru-sInaSnlng ageregate Nalues altn'
prices received by the farmers for theil
| products are almost invariably lower thar
last year. For example, the average value
Of wheat was cents less per bushel. corr
! 13 cents less, kafir 81 cents less, milo 3.
cents less, alfalfa $3.50 less a ton, anf
prairie hay more than So less per ton. Or
the other hand, average yields per acr'
! have been more than twice as much fol
corn. bushels more for oats, bushels
more for kafir, 5 bushels for milo, four
| tentbs of ton more of alfalfa and nearl,
half ton more for prairie hay, while thu
acreyield of wheat is less by LA bushels
Wheat Crop Second Largest.
This years wheat crop, the second larg
est for the state, was worth $2S9, $50 400. ol
S103, ,553 400 In excess of 1918, the best pre-
ceding year. outvaluing the record croI
of 1S0.000.000 bushels In 1914 by S13S. 300, ,l0'
and representing more than half the fota
value of all field crops. Wheat alone thi,
year WAS worth more than all combined
farm products in 1913, in any year o
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