WHEAT-GROWING IN KANSAS.
According to tho final report of the Kansas Slate Board of Agriculture on the crops of 1395, the yield of winter wheat from 4,056,514 acres sown, but not all hurvested, was 1!JJ512,241 bushels, or only 3 82 bushels par acre, and the produce of 115,457 acres of spring wheat was 403,819 bushels, or 4.23 bushels per acre. Only 66 per cent, of the wheat is reported as marketable for milling, and the average prico at the beginning of November was ouly 47 cents a bushel at tho nearest market. Supposing that tbe wheat harvested yielded four bushels an acre, the gross return at the average price given is only 7s 9.1 an acre. No wonder that tho reported area of wheat sown in the autumn of 1895 in Kansas is only 70 per cent, of last season's acreage. Low as the average price of maize ia in Kansas—only 13 cents a bushel—tho crop ia less unrimuuerative than wheat, the produce of 8,394,871 acres being put at 201,457,395 bushels, or 24 bushels an acre, realising at the recent average price 18s an acre.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9323, 25 January 1896, Page 7
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