The following table, compiled from the official 

 records of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, gives 

 the annual product and value of corn for the past 

 ten years, together with their totals : 

 Year. Bushels. Value. 



1892 138,658,621 $ 42,889,849 



1893 118,624,369 32,621,762 



1^94 66,952,833 25,354,190 



1895 201,457,396 46,189,772 



1896 221,419,414 35,633,013 



1897 152,140,993 28,555,293 



1898 126,999,132 30,298,098 



1899 225,183,432 53,530,576 



1900 134,523,^ 77 39,581,835 



1901 42,6 05,672 21,731,215 



Total 1,428,565,539 $356,385,603 



For thirty -four years, of which we have record, 

 the average yield for the whole area planted, 

 whether in corn territory proper or where none at 

 all grew, was twenty-seven bushels per acre. 

 The average product per acre on all the plantings 

 for ten of those years ranged from forty to forty- 

 eight bushels. For a period of tv/enty-five years, 

 good and bad, the average farm value of Kansas 

 corn per bushel was 27.2 cents, and per acre $7.31. 

 Information obtained from numerous extensive 

 and long-time corn-growers in all parts of the 

 State by the Board of Agriculture, shows, con- 

 densed, the following average cost of each prin- 

 cipal item entering into the production and har- 

 vesting of an acre of corn in Kansas, reckoning 

 the cost of harvesting as for a yield of forty 

 bushels per acre : 



Seed. $ .077 



Planting (with lister or with check-rower 

 planter including cost of previous plow- 

 ing and harrowing) .780 



Cultivating 1.020 



Husking and putting in crib 1.160 



Wear and tear and interest on cost of 



tools .230 



Rent of land (or interest on its value) 2.470 



Total cost. $ 5.737 



Cost per bushel. .143 



Average value of corn land per acre 29.570 



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