WINTER-WHEAT PRODUCTION AT FORT HAYS STATION, 3 
year since 1911, when the separate figures on acreage seeded begin, 
has less than 80 per cent of the total acres of ali crops been seeded to 
winter wheat. 
The percentage of the acres of winter wheat as compared to the 
acres of all crops in Ellis County is shown in Figure 1. The Ellis 
County ratios are indicated by dots connected with a solid line. 
To determine whether the condition shown by the statistics to 
obtain in Ellis County were a true condition, common to the region 
and exhibited in other counties, similar data were abstracted and 
calculated for four adjoining counties: Rooks on the north, Russell on 
the east, Rush on the south, and Trego on the west. This study 
showed a remarkably close agreement between the percentage of total 
crop acres devoted to winter wheat in Ellisand Rush Counties. For 
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Fic. 1.—Percentage of the area (acres) of all crops occupied by winter wheat (harvested) in Ellis, 
County, Kans.,shown by dots connected by a solid line, and the average of Ellis, Russell, Rush, 
Rooks, and Trego Counties, Kans., shown by dots connected by a broken line, for the 47 years from 
1874 to 1920, inclusive. (From statistics published in the Biennial Reports of the Kansas State Board 
of Agriculture.) 
the 30-year period from 1891 to 1920, inclusive, the ratio of winter 
wheat to all crops has averaged 0.731 in Ellis County and 0.723 in 
Rush. Russell has consistently devoted a somewhat lower ratio of 
its acreage to winter wheat, its average for the same years being 0.634. 
Rooks and Trego devote a still smaller acreage to wheat, the ratios 
for these counties for the same years being 0.504 and 0.511, respec- 
tively. 
The average of the five counties is shown in Figure 1 by dots con- 
nected by a broken line. This diagram shows a rapid increase in 
the proportion of wheat to total crop acreage until 1891. This in- 
crease, however, was interrupted by a period of recession from 1879 
to 1885 and is consequently divided into two periods of rapid in- 
crease, one from the beginning in 1874 until 1879 and one from 1885 
until 1891. Since 1891, or for 30 years, the curve shows a condition 
of practical stability in the ratio of winter wheat to all crops. The 
