The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-06-27
229 MILLION BU.
WHEAT YIELD IN
KANSAS ASSURED
Mohler Report Shows IL Mill
lion Blu. Increased Estimate.
Present Condition of Kansas
i Crop 92.4 Per Cent.
S601, ,448,540 TO FARMERS
This Years Crop Larger Than
That of Last 3 Years.
Enough Hands in East-West
Needs More Help.
Present Condition of Kansas
Crop 92.4 Per Cent.
SCOT ,440, $40 TO FARMERS

Kansas winter wheat crop was to-
day estimated at 22s,217. 900 bushels
an increase of eleven million BUSH ,
els over the May 2S report. On the
basis of Thursdays closing market.
the crop means slightly more than
three -fifths of a billion dollars to
wheat growers of the state.
Present conditions of the Kansas
crop were today given by ]. c. Moh-
Ter. secretary of the state board or
agriculture, who stated that 92.4 per
cent of perfect crop would be har-
vested. He declared that more grain
would be harvested than the COM
bined wheat crops of 1916-17-1S. on
the basis of S2.62-the market quota
ton for No. hard winter wheat-the
crop now being harvested means re-
turn of $601.44S.540.
Estimate Is Increased.
Mohler's May report estimated n
winter wheat yield of 21S, S,590,00O
bushels as against the estimate of 229.-
217 900 at this time. While there has
been slight slump in the acre yield
for the state, Mohler's correspondents
report a growing crop of 11,564.693
acres as against 10,s25,631 reported
last month. The average yield for the
state is estimated at 1913 bushels an
acre.
Weather conditions caused some
damage to the wheat crop in almost
every section of the state. The north
central district was hardest hit. Most
] of the loss. tho. has been to bottom
wheat land. which is a comparatively
| small per cent of the total acreage for
Kansas.
Improved weather conditions the
last week or ten days have greatly Inn
! proved conditions. Much wheat which
| went down as a result of the excessive
rains, is now in good condition for
| harvest.
Corn conditions are given at 7b.4
per cent on 4,35S,000 acres.
| Spring Wheat 44S,OOO Bushels.
All wheat in Kansas-including both
winter and spring-is estimated at
! 229. .665, 900 bushels. Spring wheat es-
innate 448.00O bushels
| Labor conditions are good for the
eastern half of the state. Harvest
hands are needed in most of the west
ern counties.
Kansas has 1.5s5.OOo acres of oats.
A yield of 33.5 bushels an acre is esti-
mated or a total yield of 52.416,S47
| bushels. This crop has been exceeded
only in 1888. 1910 and 1917. The 1918
harvest 50.4S2.4S7 bushels.
| A yield of 5,404, 900 bushels of rye
| is estimated from 2S7. 900 acres. Last
years crop was 2,257.ooO bushels.
A total of $4,000 acres has been
| planted to barley. The yield prom
| ises 16.666,300 bushels as against s.
| $4,000 in 1918.
The first cutting of alfalfa amount
! ed to 1.625,000 tons or 1872 tons an
| acre. Fifty per cent of the first cut
ting was damaged by rain. Cutworms
and grasshoppers have probably dam
aged the second crop 40 per cent.
Potato acreage is about $4,000 be-
| low 1918, when 68.35S acres were
planted. The condition is 90.1 per
cent
Pastures and meadows are Uniform
ly good. Acreage devoted to sorghums
is considerably less than last year.
| Report in Detail.
Secretary Mohler's detailed report
follows:
This years Kansas crop of wheat, in
| will amount to 229. .G65, 900 bushels, Accord
ing to the consensus Of the opinions of
prodnetion promised this Year e Is neSriv .D1h
| equal to the states three wheat crops Of
! 1918, 1917 and 1916 combined. and 10
yield of 1914, which has stood until now
as the record crop Of any Of the United
| The production of winter wheat is now
placed at 229,217, 900 bushels, an aver
age yield of l9.s bushels per acre; This
bushel In the acre-yield reported in May,
but gain in aggregate yield Of 100000
bushels because Of increased acreage as
revealed by the official returns Of asses
sors which have been received by the board
in the past month. Assessors figures for
30 of the 100 counties are used in this
, report. and with estimates for the other
! 10 counties, the total area sown to winter
wheat In Kansas for this years crop II
! shown to be 11,564, 500 acres, against
10S2j631 ncres as previously estimated by
correspondents. or a gain Of more than
100000 acres.
The condition of the states winter wheat
Is given as 92.4 per cent. based on 100 a.
representing n satisfactory situation. In
this canvass special attention was given
| to damage from wet weather. There has
been considerable more or less in prac-
ticnlly every county of the state, but prfn-
| down of wheat, the greatest damage hav-
ing been sustained in the north central
| counties of Ottawa. Lincoln, Mitchell.
| Ellsworth. Cloud and Saline, and in the
southeastern counties OF coffey, Franklin.
! Lyon, Wilson and Chautauqua. Answering
the question, "On what kinds of fields has
lodging been most common7 ?" SO reporters
, say 'bottom". 213 reply .fertilized". los
various descriptions. as new land. sum
mer faIlowed, and not pastured" Hall
injured wheat In some localities. and par
| ticnlarly in the counties OF the northern
have caused comparatively small loss.
| Damage from insects was believed to be
practically nothing this year, but evidences
Of the HessiaD fly has been noted lately
inflicted little injury to the present crop,
but their presence should he warning 70
put into practice the methods Of control
which have been found practical and ef-
fectfve. to avoid prevent serious damage
to the crop to be sown next fan.
Sunshine a Big Aid.
| 1t Is interesting to observe that corre-
spordents report that sunshiny weather
is bringing up lodged wheat TO n very
considerable extent in the entire western
half of the state. and to some though
lesser extent in other portions except in
dozen or more counties, mostly in the