The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-09
This Comes Following Third
Largest Wheat Crop.
Records in Grain Production
Are Broken, Report Says.
CORN is 81 Per CENT NORMAL
Average Yield of 2S.56 Bushels
Per Acre for 1920.
Fifty-Seven Million More Bush
els Than Former Years.

1t looks as tho Kansas has broken
all previous records in the history Of
the state in bushels of grain produced.
according to the report issued today
by Edward G. Paxton. agricultural
s;atistician for the United States De-
partment of Agriculture The 1e2o
crop of corn, oats and barley is far
beyond the average for Kansas.
The report follows:
Corn, oats and barley crops far be-
yohd the average for Kansas feature
the government crop report issued to-
day. Coupled with the third largest
wheat crop in the history OF the state
IL looks as tho Kansas had broken All
previous records in bushels OF grain
produced in 1920
Rated at "a Per Cent.
! On October Kansas -corr ,,..
rated at $40 of normal with the huIis
OF the crop past danger from FROST
SuGn s.; CONDITION forecasts an average
yleio or 2S.56 bushels per acre ana
1 I9zo production of 1896. 900 bnshA
els. Ihis is 100000 bushels ,,oro
Ioih Ie than the average annual cron in
nahsds Tor the last five years. II is
an average acre yield that has only
,,es ven eAceiied twice in the last thirty
years. In point of total produc,io,
ms years corn crop has been exceed.
ed twelve times in the last th,r.,,
years. but, with one execution tha
larger production was due 10 Iarga,
acreage. From present fndication.
ene ohly states that will exceed Kan
sas in corn production this vear ars
indiana. Illinois. Iowa. Missouri "
praska and Texas. All of these states
I except Indiana, have larger a..
In corn than does Kansas
cats VIII Average 80 Bushels.
preliminary estimate of Weld Der
acre OF oats indicates an average of
I % pusnels for the state. and a total
Sa Srop OF e6's2s.o00 bushels. This is to
pe compared with a crop of 44229OOO
busheIs last year and five-year aver
age or 4S,554 900 bushels This aver
age yield of oats has been excelled
only -FOUR times in the last thirty years.
out tne lslf crop is probably the only
one that ever excelled 1t in total pro-
. duction. The quality of this years
oat crop is rated at SO per cent. AL
/ lowing 100 to represent a high me-
alum grade. The ten-year average
quality is only S5 per cent.
26 Bushels of Barley to Acre.
The barley yield is estimated at 2s
bushels per acres and a crop OF 19,Iss-
600 bushels is Indicated. This is 2. OO0.-
700 bushels larger than the 1919 crop
and almost 100000 bushels larger
than the Kansas average. 1t estab-
Hshes new record in Kansas barley
production and makes Kansas one of
the five leading states in the growing
of this crop. The quality of this years
crop is rated at 80 per cent as COM
pared with SS per cent last year and
an average OF SO per cent So II has
the distinction Of not only being the
largest but also the best barley crop
Kansas ever produced
/ Correspondents of the bureau esti-
mate that 40 per cent OF the 1920 win
ter wheat crop had been marketed by
! October l. This is an average for the
state. An analysis of the report shows
that some western counties of large
production have not yet disposed OF
more than Is per cent OF their crop.
Reasons assigned for this retarded
3 movement are3 Shortage of cars:
reticence on the part OF the farmer TO
part with his crop at a price generally
considered less than the cost of pro-
duction: too wide a spread between
local bids and terminal market prices
to cover what the local grain dealer
claims is an unusual risk: determina-
! tion on the part of many farmers to
hold until they can get price which
they have fixed as being a profitable
one. Thresbing Is reported TO be near
( 1y completed except in the case Of
bound grain which was well stacked.
/ The threshed grain is generally well
and safely stored but there are reports
! of instances where grain is piled on
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