Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1919 — KANSAS WHEAT CROP IS FALLING SHORT. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS WHEAT CROP IS FALLING SHORT.

Topeka, Kas., July 25. —A decrease of more than 70,000,000 bushels in the Kansas wheat crop is shown in the July crop report of the Kansas state board of agriculture, issued tonight. The June report indicated a yield of 229,719,000 bushels las 'against a total' estimated production, balsed upon the threshing returns, of 158,999,200 bushels forecast today. Although the decline ffls keenly disappointing, the report the year’s crop is the second largest in the state’s-history, the 1914 output of 180,000,000 bushels only exceeding it. The chief reason for White failure was Ithe abrupt change from the wet, cool weather that prevailed Hast spring and summer, to the extremely high temperatures ten days or two weeks before harvest. An excess tof rain is also given as one of the chief causes for the poor showing made. On the state’s 4,358,000 acres of growing grain, the report says, the condition averages 79.9 per cent. This is a gain of 4.3 per cent in the laist mionth. * The indicated yield of oa£s is now 49,776,000 bushels, a decrease of 2,111,000 from the June estimiate. The estimated yield of potatoes is 5,518,000 bushels, or an average, of 98.7 butehdls per acre.