WHEAT. 



/C^-VJ^J" ^ FOREMOST BREADSTUFF 

 PRODUCER. 



Facts and Figures as to Yields, Quality, and 



General Standing of Her Famous 



Wheats and Flours. 



To lead in any worthy enterprise or under- 

 taking is certainly a distinction of wiiich it is 

 pardonable to be proud; to so far excel as to 

 early and easily surpass all competitors, old and 

 young alike, is an honor vouchsafed to few, 

 although persistently sought by many. This, in 

 truth, however, aptly describes the status of 

 Kansas as a wheat state, having successfully 

 distanced all others, and now, almost without a 

 close competitor, she is forced to be content with 

 exceeding only her own previous feats. 



In her brief career Kansas has made a record 

 in some directions unparalleled by any other 

 state of agricultural environment and ambition. 

 Not alone in wheat production has she achieved 

 pre-eminence, but as a commonwealth where a 

 diversified agriculture flourishes she is premier, 

 annually producing all field crops in generous 

 profusion, and rearing and marketing animals of 

 well-nigh incalculable value, in which lies the 

 state's greatest wealth. 



One of her most conspicuous, although not 

 foremost, items is the wheat produced. Without 

 doubt the greatest crop of winter wheat, of high- 

 est quality, often testing far above the standard 

 requirements, ever grown to maturity in any 

 state in the world was harvested within the 

 borders of Kansas in 1901, amounting to 90,046, 

 000 bushels and duplicating with increased yield 

 her record for 1900, when she raised more wheat 

 by about 2V^ million bushels than the combined 

 output of the two ranking next highest, that year, 

 in the United States, viz. : Minnesota and Cali- 

 fornia. After the prairies were broken, and since 

 once fairly started, the state has ranked among 

 the very foremost, so early as 1892 leading all 



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