Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — Kansas With 11,184,000 Acres Has 22.8 Per Cent of Winter Wheat Area of United States [ARTICLE]

Kansas With 11,184,000 Acres Has 22.8 Per Cent of Winter Wheat Area of United States

A reporter for the federal departmept of agriculture declares that Kansas, with 11,184,000 acres has 22.8 per cent of all the winter wheat area of the United States. A full crop on this enormous acreage, which is 13 per cent larger than the record acreage of last year, w’ould . total 200,000,000 bushels, or more than one-third of the 509,304,000 bushels for the average annual consumption in the United States, the report says. Such a production, with a guafairteed price of $2 a bushel, would bring Kansas $400,000,000. The December report stated that the average condition is 98 per cent. “Not only is this the largest acre- • age of wheat ever sown in a single state, but it is probably the largest acreage ever devoted to a single grain crop of any state,” says the report. “The Texas cotton crop is possibly the only state crop that ever excelled it in area.” A campaign for mobilizing a,great army to harvest the 1919 crop is being worked out by the Kansas City office of the director general of the federal employment service, in charge of western farm labor. Last year the federal employment offices supplied fully half of the 40,000 men used in Kansas and Oklahoma harvest fields. It. is expected many thousand more hands will be needed for the 1919 “yield? Women, children and business and professional men responded to the ‘‘wheat won’t wait” call and helped gather the big war crop.