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while in the production of corn Kansas rises 

 from the twenty-fifth in rank in 1808 lo the 

 fourth in 1878. 



A Commissioner of Fisheries is engaged in 

 supplying the rivers with salmon-eggs and 

 young shad ; and 100,000 Californian salmon 

 were placed in them in 1878. 



There are about 2,300 miles of railroads in 

 the State, the assessed value of which is $15,- 

 525,033. They are prohibited from charging 

 over six cents per mile for the transportation 

 of passengers. 



The State has an unsettled claim against the 

 United States of about $500,000 for damages 

 to her citizens by the Price raid in the late 

 civil war. 



The cultivated acreage of the State for the 

 years 1877 and 1878, and the principal crops, 

 were as follows : 



Following is the summary of an official state- 

 ment showing the acreage, product, and value 

 of five principal crops, in the counties border- 

 ing on the Kansas River, between Junction 

 City and the mouth of said river, for the year 

 1877; also the aggregate acreage of the crops 

 named for 1878, and an estimated increase of 

 the tonnage of said products from 1877 to 1878. 

 The list of counties comprises those of Davis, 

 Riley, Wabaunsee, Pottawattamie, Slrawnee, 

 Jefferson, Douglas, Leavenworth, Johnson, and 

 Wyandotte : 



The combined product of the five crops 

 named gives 735,802 tons, or 73,580 car-loads. 

 The increase in the acreage of wheat alone, in 

 1878, over that of 1877, is 74,092 acres, or 

 77'55 per cent. Estimating the yield at 20 

 bushels per acre, the product amounts to 3,392,- 

 680 bushels, or 101,780 tons, an equivalent to 

 10,178 car-loads. Assuming that the other 

 crops named will hold their own, the tonnage 

 of products of the five crops entire for 1878 is 

 794,858 tons. The following table shows the 

 amount and proportion of cultivated and un- 

 cultivated land in these counties for 1 877. The 

 total acreage of the ten counties given in this 

 table is 10*39 per cent, of the total acreage of 

 the seventy organized counties of the State, and 

 the cultivated acreage of the same counties is 

 16-52 per cent, of the cultivated acreage of the 

 seventy organized counties. 



But nine counties in the State show a de- 

 crease in the number of horses, while the in- 

 crease of the State as a whole is something 

 over 33,000, or nearly 13 per cent. In 1873 

 the increase was 11 per cent. ; in 1874, 13 per 

 cent. ; in 1875, 2 per cent. ; in 1876, 3 per 

 cent.; in 1877, 11 per cent.; an aggregate in- 

 crease in the seven years of 75 per cent. There 

 is a decrease of mules and asses in but a single 

 county, while the increase in the State as a 



* Actual increase in acreage during the year, 948,422-86; 

 percentage of increase, 16-86. 



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whole is nearly 8,000, or 19 per cent. The 

 increase of mules and asses has been steady 

 and strong, no year since 1872 showing a de- 

 crease. In 1.873 it was 11 per cent.; in 1874, 

 19 per cent. ; in 1875, llf per cent. ; in 1876, 

 13 per cent. ; and in 1877, 18 per cent. ; an ag- 

 gregate increase in seven years of 61 per cent. 

 Eleven counties show a decrease of milch cows, 

 but the increase in the other counties aggregates 

 upward of 27,000, leaving a net increase of 24,- 

 599, or 8 per cent. The number in the State 

 has fluctuated somewhat since 1872. It in- 



