The Cordova daily times., 1920-09-02
KANSAS CROPS
 MAKING MANY
 FARMERS RICH


 eiated Press) ).-Stories of sudden wealth in the Kansas wheat belt are numerous this year, due unusual acreage of volunteer wheat" a crop previous harvesting. Officially esti- mated there was 1,500,000 acres of volunteer wheat in Kansas this year, or about a sixth of the total harvest ed acreage. This wheat yielded about probably 40,000,000 bushels or repre- senting 8 monetary value of about $100,O00,000. The total Kansas crop | of wheat is estimated officially at i 150, 100000 bushels.
 The large acreage of volunteer wheat is due to the fact that a great deal of this acreage was deserted as wheat land by the owners, after last years none to bountiful crop had been harvested. The 1919 acreage was in excess of 100000, by far the record | for any state in the union. A wet fall caused the kernals of wheat which had fallen to the ground during har- | vesting to germinate.
 Finding the volunteer crop mak- ing, stand, farmers did not disturb the growth and, with ideal wheat growing weather this spring, the vol unteer wheat made yields fully as bountiful as the rest of the crop. | Innumerable stories of deserted acreages, producing $5,O0O to S25,- 900 worth of wheat come from west ern Kansas where the bulk of the volunteer wheat was grown. Others l tell of farmers who purchased farms this year and paid for them with the sudden wealth" general throughout the western Kansas counties, where land has been cheap and favorable seasons few and far between, re- cent canvass of wheat yields in the vicinity of Oakley, a small town 50 miles east of the Colorado line, in Logan county, showed at least 50 far mers whose wheat crops this year are worth more than $5O,OO0 each; at least 25 have more than $75,OOO of wheat each and every farmer has good crop. Thirteen counties, most of them of northwest Kansas, this year are yielding 43,701, ,637 bushels ] of wheat, according to the latest of ficial estimate by the state board of agriculture.
 The one big drawback to the Kan sas wheat growers prosperity this year is the lack of facilities in which to transport his wheat to the market centers. Cars still are scarce, es- pecially in the central and western parts of the state but the situation is not as desperate as it was two months ago, grain dealers report
 1 Favorable summer rains have prac- tically assured big corn crop in Kansas this season. The crop has been officially estimated at 1400OO.- 900 bushels and the official forecast CTS now assert that the continued favorable weather means the yield will mount still higher The Kansas weather bureau here reported that it is the first year in it's 33 years exis- tence that Kansas had bumper" wheat and corn crops the same year. A banker who has lived in Kansas 52 years, is authority for the state- ment that in that time, such a favor able crop combination never before l occurred.
 Similar conditions prevail with the oats and barley crops which have been harvested. The state raised 2O,- 100000 bushels of barley,-four times the average annual yield of the last 20 years.
 Alfalfa and grain sorghums, to which millions of acres are devoted in Kansas, likewise are producing bountiful crops. Kaw valley potato growers report one of the best crops ever grown. As one editor of west ern Kansas puts it: ''The horn of plenty appears to have been dumped right into the lap of Kansas this year."
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