Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-29
STORIES OF SUDDEN WEALTH IN KANSAS
 WHEAT ARE MANY
Volunteer Wheat Results In Huge and Unexpected
 Profits.

Topeka, Kans., Aug. 2S.-Stories of sudden wealth in the Kansas wheat belt are numerous this year, due to the unusual acreage of volunteer wheat" crop grown from the seeds which fall in the previous harvest ing. Officially estimated there was 100000 acres of volunteer wheat in Kansas this year, or about sixth of the total harvested acreage. This wheat yielded probably 40,000,00o bushels or representing a monetary value of about $10O,000,0OO. The to- tai Kansas crop of wheat is esti- mated officially at 150,O00,000 bush els.
 The large acreage of volunteer wheat is due to the fact that 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 kernels of wheat which had fallen to the ground during the harvesting, to germinate.
 Finding the volunteer" crop mak- ing stand, farmers did not disturb the growth and, with ideal wheat growing weather this spring, the volunteer wheat made yields fully as bountiful as the rest of the crop.
 1nnumerable stories of "deserted acreages" producing $5,000 to $25,000 worth of wheat come from western Kansas where the bulk of the volun- teer wheat was grown. Others tell of farmers who purchased farms this year and paid for them with the re- turns of this years wheat harvest. Illustrating the sudden wealth. general throughout the western Kan sas counties, where land has been cheap and favorable seasons few and far between, a recent canvass ot wheat yields in the vicinity of Oak 2 ley, small town 60 miles east of the Colorado line, in Logan county showed at least 50 farmers whose wheat crops this year are wortt more than $5O,OO0 each; at least 2E have more than $75,0O0 of wheat and each and every farmer has good crop. Thirteen counties, Nost o1 them of northwest Kansas, this year are yielding 43,701,637 bushels o1 wheat, according to the latest off. cial estimate by the state board o1 agriculture.
 The one big drawback to the Kans. as wheat growers prosperity this year is the lack of facilities in whicf 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.
 Favorable summer rains have prac tically assured a big corn crop il Kansas this season. The crop ha. been officially estimated at 14O,00O, 900 bushels and the official fore casters now assert that the continued favorable weather means the yielt will mount still higher. The Kansa. weather bureau here reported tha it is the first year in it's B year existence that, Kansas had bumper wheat and corn crops the same year A banker who has lived in Kansa, 62 years, is authority for the state ment that in that time, such favor able crop combination never befor' occurred.
 Similar conditions prevail with tn, oats and barley crops which hay, been harvested. The state. raise, 20,0O0,000 bushels of barley-foul times the average annual yield of thu last 20 years.
 Alfalfa and grain sorghums, t, which millions of acres are devoted in Kansas, likewise are producing ! bountiful crops. Raw valley potat, growers report one of the best crop ever grown. As one editor of west ern Kansas puts it: "The horn O plenty appears to have been dumpe, right into the lap of Kansas thi year."
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