| Show HEAT RECORDS BROKEN I Temperature in Kansas Registers Reg-isters 110 Degrees i A REDHOT WIND BLEW 1 Was Like Breath From Blast Furnace Fur-nace and Withering Vegetation of All KindsSunflower State f Is Stricken With a Drought Worse Than Any Sines 1860 Tress Aro Showing the Effects Leaves Fnll is lag i Like Late in SummerCorn Crop Practically a Failure 4 Topeka Kan July 12Ahl records for heat In the thirtyfour years observations ob-servations kept by Chancellor Snow of the University of Kansas were broken I today the mercury reaching a mixl mum average for the State of 1055 degrees de-grees In Fort Scott the mercury registered I reg-istered 110 degrees The heat was accompanied by a light breeze from the south which came as breaths from a redhot furnace blastIng blast-ing and withering vegetation of all kinds A careful perusal of crop reports from all parts of the State indicate that Kansas will not raise more than 50000 000 bushels of corn this year The crop will thus be less than a third of last years yield and less than a fifth of i 1S99 The late corn Is all that will yield anything the early product being given I up more than two weeks ago The fact that there has been no good rain for three months has retarded the late corn I Opinions and reports differ as to the extent of the damage to corn Secretary I Secre-tary Cobuin of the State Board of Ag I I rictulture admits that the crop is a failure While corn has failed alfalfa has given an abundant yield Wheat is nearly all In the stack As many as 20000 acres of wheat In the I stack have been burned during the last two weeks The fires start from the slightest causes so Intensely dry Is everything and when they arc once started there Is no water on hand with which to fight them Trees are showing the effects of the r drought Leaves are falling like late In the summer Halfgrown fruit is dying and dropping from the trees Kansas Is stricken with a drought worse than any since 1SGO Queerly enough the usual order of things has been reversed this time and the western west-ern part of the State is In a much more favorable cbndltion than the hitherto eastern part j |
