2 BULLETIN 1094, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
had averaged about 10,000 acres per year, but for the 15 years 
following it averaged only about 4,000 acres per year. 
For the purpose of the present bulletin the most important thing 
is not the acreage under cultivation, but the proportion of it that is 
devoted to the different crops. All who have any knowledge of the 
agriculture of the section recognize the predominance of winter 
wheat, but probably few sense it as clearly as it is shown by the 
statistics. Table 1 shows for Ellis County for each year of the 
period from 1874 to 1920, inclusive, the total acres of all crops, 
the acres of winter wheat harvested, the acres of crops other than 
winter wheat, and the percentage of the area devoted to winter 
wheat as compared to all other crops. This table does not include 
prairie hay, the acreage of which is given and included in the totals 
published in the Biennial Reports of the Kansas State Board of 
Agriculture, ? from which the data of this table are obtained. 
TaBLE 1.—Acreage devoted to all crops (other than prairie hay) compared to that of winter 
wheat in Ellis County, Kans., each year for the 47-year period from 1874 to 1920, 
inclusive. 
: Percent- _ Area cropped (acres). Percent- 
Area cropped (acres) aoe of a PP ( ) Cae 
winter winter 
Year. | | ees to | Year. | woe to 
} i | area e- 7 area e- 
A else gill, | Winter |Allother| voted f 
DS- a PS- | all crops. PS- < PS- | all crops. 
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re Seat 1, 669 56 | 1,613 3.5 | 1898...-- 161,463 | 123,631 | 37,832 76.6 
1S 7S a 1,391 93 | 1, 298 6.7 | 1899-252 183,144 | 148, 562 34, 582 81.1 
1876 eS 1, 756 312| 1,444 17.8 | 1900..... 176,268 | 137,597 | 38,671 73.1 
ASTTE oe- 3, 631 sot 6 2310 36.4 | 1901. ..-. 197,346 | 166,108 | 31,238 84. 2 
LsViels aeiae 9, 844 4,0 5, 807 4}. 0) |-1902 -- S22 210,078 | 178, 367 31, 711 84. 9 
tS7DF EE 25,298 | 12,995 | 12,303 51.4 | 1903. .... 214,929 | 184,602 | 30,327 85.9 
1880225. 46, 021 21, 976 24, 045 47.8 | 1904-.-.--- 207,726 | 172, 553 39, 173 83.1 
feet: 42,206 | 16,320] 25,886 38:7 {7190529 221,313 | 181,081 | 40, 232 81.8 
NBS2 io. Ls. 48, 969 22, 613 26, 356 46.2 | 1906..... 223,389 | 171, 028 52, 361 76.6 
1883.46. 38,038 | 19,840] 18,198 52.2 | 1907. ..-- 237,095 | 185,264 | 51,831 78.1 
1884...-- 45, 101 27, 290 17, 811 6055), 1908: = see 238,665 | 187,358 51, 307 78.5 
1885..-.- 51, 322 13, 144 38, 178 29.62} 19092 - 3e= 243,083 | 191, 189 51, 894 78.7 
ESRB goo 53,172 | 24,779 | 28,393 46.6 | 1910..... 247,780 | 159,305 | 88,475 64.3 
ASS Tes o5 42, 534 18, 211 24, 323 42.8 | 1911 2 3 152, 340 78, 170 74, 170 51.3 
T8882 55 - 51, 219 30, 225 20, 994 5920) |) 1912) ose 248,507 | 157, 908 90, 599 63.5 
1SaGe 2 4 83, 625 46, 017 37, 608 Bor0 | 1993-32 244,099 | 163, 537 80, 562 67.0 
1890..... 64,310 | 42,851} 21, 459 66.6 | 1914..... 261,642 | 234,800 | 26,752 89. 8 
18983. $2: 105, 035 83, 031 22, 004 79: 0: |$1915e- 2 229,187 | 190,188 38, 999 83.0 
18925 = 5 123, 079 92, 435 30, 644 (5:1 | LOGS. cee 269, 840 | 210, 203 59, 637 77.9 
1893... .- 137, 164 90, 327 46, 837 6559)| 1GL7iEr ees 245, 270 16,478 | 228, 792 6.7 
189427. 147,716 | 112,925 34, 791 76.4 | 1918.....| 275,244 | 158,579 | 116, 665 57.6 
1895 22% 149,919 | 105, 259 44, 660 10) QF TONES ee 277,456 | 226, 207 51, 249 81.5 
1896..... 139,587 | 97,009] 42,578 69.5 | 1920...-. | 270,867 | 199,682 | 71,185 73.7 
1897 F255 154,629 | 113,801 40, 828 73. 6 
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Beginning with 1911, figures of the acreage seeded to winter 
wheat as well as of the acres allowed to remain after winter abandon- 
ment have been published. The latter are the figures tabulated in 
the biennial reports? used in Table 1. The decreases in the acres of 
winter wheat in some of the recent years have been due to seasonal 
conditions rather than to purposeful reduction by the farmers, as in no 
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3 Kansas. State Board of Agriculture. Op. cit. 
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