Pratt, Russell, Sedgwick, Stafford and Ottawa- 

 While these counties produced the greater part 

 of the igoi crop, many other counties harvested 

 a big yield and made a most excellent showing. 

 Counties not adapted to wheat-raising by soil 

 conditions, climate, or from other causes, may be 

 unsurpassed for alfalfa and the sorghums and 

 stock-raising, and their smaller areas in wheat 

 detract nothing from laurels won in other branches 

 of agriculture. 



Kansas hard wheats are sought for shipment to 

 mills in other states for mixing with the famous 

 soft wheats from the Northwest, thereby greatly 

 improving the product in the higher flour grades. 

 For years Kansas flouring mills have consigned 

 heavy shipments of their products to leading 

 markets throughout the United States and to 

 foreign countries, where they are received with 

 much and increasing favor. 



Millstuffs, such as bran and shorts, find a 

 ready market both at home and abroad, and their 

 feeding value is evident, for they are in constant 

 use on almost every intelligently conducted farm 

 and in the feed-lot, where they have come to be 

 regarded as necessities. Besides the large quan- 

 tities of these valuable by-products made possible 

 Dy the wonderful yields of grain, the wheat 

 plant's earlier growth annually affords abundant 

 succulent pasturage for millions of live-stock 

 during much of the fall, winter and spring, 

 which in itself is an item of no small consequence; 

 and the straw also is of much value. 



A consensus of the detailed statements to 

 the State Board of Agriculture of one hundred 

 and twenty representative Kansas winter wheat- 

 growers, representing fifty-five different coun- 

 ties, as to the cost to produce and put in the bin 

 or car an acre-crop of wheat, yielding twenty 

 bushels, is, itemized, as shown below: 



Average cost of plowing (or disking) $ .96 



Harrowing .28 



Seed and seeding .92 



Cost of harvesting and stacking (or shock- 

 ing) 1.36 



Threshing, and putting in bin or car 1.60 



25 



