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3943 434 @ 3 5043II 424 3 405 @ 3 532 @ 3 EA 460@ 45433 445 @ 3 February 16, 1971 547 @ 3 16th Year No. 51 503 @ 3 420 @ 30 440 @ 3 4343 SOS@ 3 'WS 1060 @22, 1215@ 1175@ 21( 1120@ 21,1 1010@ 211 1015@ 21 1250 @ 20 970@ 20. 920@ 20 1250@ 19 930 @ 19. 947 @19 895@ 40.000 PINES 1035 @ 11 @270 @261 F24 and father along withhis brother Stony turned Kip Hoffman, who have N of many inthe G&G area Christmas trees SION Wendell, is one of profit from the promise livestock opera- farmland over to farming and ( I? The Hoffman Interstate 70and Alta and evergreens.county, between tion is in Geary K177. I, M T Vista along T y 0 ANC Y 13 A L If T 17 liTh; Kans. Inc S. About 40 acresof the Hoffman turned over toraising and selling operation have been Aron c scale evergreens for landscaping. Christmas treesand planted about The first seedlingswere eight yearsago and many have being sold. reached marketablesize. There just Scotch pine varieties are both Austrianand nay be are superior becausehere. Kip thinksAustrian pines they keep their in attendance needles longer. RY WEE 652 @ 35 When a treegets to six or reached a maximum seven feet tall, ithas about 59030 size if it is tobe sold as tree. When thetrees were put a Christmas 590 @ 311 less than out as seedlingsthey were one foot high. Kipsays the Hoffmas 587 @ 29 40,000 treeson the 40 acres. have about 1335@n, 630 25 397 @ 38, 428 @ 1285 @213 cooperative, 229 @ 19 The Hoffmans sell their trees thru a marketingSales last year With most sales within this state and in Texas. 225 @ also donated by the Hoffmans totaled about 2500 trees. They 19 for needy 235 @ 150trees to the welfare department in Manhattan 19 where 217 @ families in the area. The parents live in Manhattan, Mrs. 238 @19 father Wendell bases as a network television cameraman.at Kansas 214 @ Hoffman is Dean of the College of Home Economics State University. 225 @ 245 1 227@ 695 @ 12 14 482 @ 14 439 @; 312 @ @ 19 @ 19 'AVEA BUCK! @16 be to Grass @11 & Grain for2 years and Savea Dollar. @16 here 114@ 23' Name____ $1 for2 Years )$4 fof AUCTION 14411 1 Address /hilt();Ag Press141059 Town &State Minhatran, Phone Kansas Salina, i(" Zip WHEAT - TOP RANKING COUNTIES IN KANSAS - 1970 CROP Acreage harvested I Yield per When for grain . harvested acre produced (county) (000 acres) (county) (bushel) Here's Final 1970 Wheat Report 302 Brown 41.0 664 Sumner ner smaller 272 Haskell Sumner County produced more New Records crop of recordbut 2 percent Reno 40.2 Thomas 202 Scott 40.2 182 Smith wheat than any other Kansas county In Four Counties than in 1969. Ford 201 38.5 acreage of 199 Lane 38.3 Infour Kansas counties Harper :111upnetrY) Leading counties in Remaha (°:°,368 in 1970 for the seventh consecutive Barton 192 38.0 !!!::00n grain in 1970 76'185 Greeley,Hamilton,Osborne andwheat harvested for Finney 181 Greeley 37,9 year, according to the Kansas Crop 175 Sherman 37,4 8 Sedgwick Rooks- new high records for wheat with 302,000 acres, 172 Cray 37.0 5,953 and Livestock Reporting Service. were Sumner 9 Kingman Greeley 172 Harvey 36.8 6659765 production were set in 1970, and in Thomas with 10 10herson ::::" Sumner's 10,693,000 bushel crop Reno with 272,000, and 5,674 was 12 percent below the county'smany other counties the crop was202,000 acres. the western Record 1969 record 12,195,000 bushels, butthe largest in a decade or more. Some 15 counties in Farmers in Kansasplanted 9,690,- Yields In seven Kansas counties over 6two-thirds of Kansasharvested For 21 Counties still ranked as its fourth largest. 000 acres of wheatfor the 1970 crop, New record Reno County with 8,854,000 bushels million bushelsof wheat was150,000 acres or moreof wheat in than a year earlier. high wheat centralcrop10 percent less acre were set in yields produced in 1970 and in fourteen1970.The three were 21 countiesin ranked second, Ford County was Ofthese,9,061,000acres counties over 5 million bushels. The eporting districtsof Kansas ac- and most othercounties , third with 7,185,000 and Thomas harvested for grain, 8percent less had --10, State's1970wheat crop totaled 299,-counted for 50 percent ofthe State's ceptionally goodyields. 0 .\._ County ranked fourth with 6,933,000 threethan in 1969. Abandonmentwas light bushels. 013,000 bushels, the third largestharvestedacreage,the the state this year. Brown, in thenortheast ( and thein most parts of di s; Yield per western districts 40 percent, had the top county Counties field inK Combination Acres Acres Harv. Acre Production Dolga percent. with 41 bushels ologe Steel Farm Harvested Bu. Bu. three eastern districts 10 per harvested Districts Seeded versatile and Side in 31.3 3,190,000 Scott and Haskell 28" Grain tomplete to a I 107,000 33.9 3,627,000 102,000 counties A Cheyenne 122,000 Barber 130,000 23.3 1,839,000 convert 86,000 31.9 2,746,000 79,000 western Kansas platform ops to Decatur 6,000 Comanche 87,000 3,494,000 tied olle 3,131,000 114,000 30.6 fors 12" 66" StocI Graham 106,000 102,000 30.7 Edwards 120,000 6,368,000 Add convert to 199,000 32.0 each with 40.2 bushels cc Norton 95,000 89,000 33.9 3,020,000 215,000 3,312,000 per per Sto. racks to cattle gate, Harper 36.3 a Rawlins 129,000 109,000 30.9 3,363,000 94,000 90,000 Some 26 counties folding sliding Harvey 31.1. 5,351,000 averaged Schlen Sheridan 111,000 103,000 33.9 3,490,000 180,000 172,000 taairi.and.out Dist. of Kingman 30.7 2,582,000 at ) Sherman 162,000 151,000 37.4 5,653,000 84,000 35 bushels per acre arrangement. Kiowa 96000 5,142,000 and 85 llry IA 202,000 34.6 6.993.000 160,000 32.1 coon Thomas 211.000 Pawnee 165,000 4,553,000 exceeded 30 bushels. BODIES WITH 1,032,000 949,000 33.7 32,023,000 147,000 31.0 Yields ALSO NORTHWEST Pratt 154,000 '8,854,000 per 272,000 32.6 Reno 285,000 6,165,000 were sharply above 112,000 96,000 36.2 3,478,000 175,000 35.2 the prey Cove Sedgwick 180,000 .4,611,000 174,000 157,000 37.9 -5,952,000 141,000 32.7 yearinwestern Greeley Stafford 146,000 10,693,000 and Lane 129,000 111,000 38.3 4,250,000 302.000 35.4 east 317,000 66,154,000 districts, 121,000 32.7 3,954,000 32.5 andslightly Logan 139,000 SIZTHCENTRAL 2,169,000 2,037,000 higher 164,000 34.6 5,674,000 Ness 170,000 476,000 central districts. UNDERBOD` Scott 127,000 111,000 40.2 4,465,000 17,000 28.0 Atchison 10,000 984,000 Trego 114,000 110,000 32.3 3,558,000 24,000 41.0 Good early season . 14 Brown 25,000 350,000 develop 67,000 33.0 2,210,000 10,000 35.0 Wallace 83,000 Doniphan 11,000 3,785,000 33.0 627,000 combined with a Flo Wichita 116,000 111,000 34.1 22,000. 19,000 cool damp " Jackson 504,000 f' WEST CENTRAL 1,164,000 1,048,000 35.6 37,326,000 18,000 28.0 102 Inc Jefferson 18,000 336,000 period helpedproduce 12,000 28.0 the Nsigned for Leavenworth 13,000 1,980,000 Clark 98,000 80,000 28.5 2,278,000 60,000 33.0 yields per acre. The ft.. Marshall 61,000 874,000 State's to13 Pinney 195,000 181,000 32.9 5,953,000 23,000 38.0 ft. Nemaha 24,000 806,000 with14 Ford 215,000 201,000 35.7 7,185,000 26,000 31.0 average yield per acre Pnttawatomie 27,000 744,000 of 33 bu 77,000 36.1 2,783,000 31.0 of hoist Grant 81,000 Riley 24,000 24,000 was a new record high, 37.0 5,371,000 36.0 72,000 2 3/pounds Cray 164,000 145,000 Wyandotte 2.000 2,000 5,660,000 33.0 7,753,000 Hamilton 167,000 156,000 36.3 NORTHEAST 245,000 235,000 above the previous high 1,ayload, _Call or Haskell 109,000 103,000 40.2 ,4,145,000 set in 131,000 117,000 30.1 3,525,000 29.0 522,000 Seeding of wheat in Hodgeman Anderson 19,000 18,000 the fall of 33.3 3,115,000 36.0 468,000 Kearny 110,000 95,000 Chase 14,000 13,000 129,000 31.5 4,061,000 31.0 558,000 began slowly but with Meade 142,000 Coffey 19,000 18,000 ample 77,000 26.2 2,019,000 558,000 Morton 90,000 Douglas 19,000 10,000 31.0 moistureavailableprogre 70,000 29.0 2,088,000 30.0 420,000 Seward 79,000 Franklin 16,000 14,000 Stanton 122,000 99,000 28.6 2,832,000 21,000 36.0 756,000 rapidly to virtual completion Geftry 22,000 in 79,000 31.9 2,521,000 29.0 377,000 HA Stevens 85,000 Johnson 14,000 13,000 October.