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KANSAS' LIVESTOCK- 



CLIMATE JiA[D SOIL FJIVOR THEIR BEST 

 DEVELOPMEMT. 



Improved Sorts Prosper — ^ General and 



Profitable Increase in Quality and 



Values from Year to Year. 



There is probably no other territory of like di- 

 mensions where live-stock of all kinds grow and 

 fatten to greater perfection or where climatic and 

 other conditions are more favorable to their 

 profitable rearing, or where all the natural advan- 

 tages are more conducive to their health than in 

 Kansas. The same wholesome, invigorating air 

 and genial sunshine with which Kansas is 

 blessed, so widely sought by and so beneficial to 

 mankind, are likewise of inestimable value and 

 importance to animal life and growth. Here are 

 the grains and fodders grown in wonderful pro- 

 fusion, and with the luxuriant pastures, pure wa- 

 ter, mild winters and nearness to market are 

 combinations making Kansas pre-eminently a 

 live stock region. Statistics substantiate all this, 

 and according to figures collected and compiled 

 by the State Board of Agriculture, it is shown 

 that there has been from her beginning a most 

 gratifying advance made in the animal population, 

 and owing to the intelligence and enterprise of 

 her farmers and stockmen there has likewise 

 been remarkable improvement, until today, both 

 in numbers and superior breeding of farm ani- 

 mals, the State occupies an exalted and enviable 

 position. 



Among her sister states, Kansas ranks high 

 and favorably in the number of horses, milch 

 cows, other cattle, swine, etc., and while in sheep 

 some may excel in the mere matter of numbers 

 there are none whose flocks of fine-wools are 

 more favorably known among breeders, wool- 

 buyers and wool-manufacturers for large yields 

 and superior quality of product than those reared 

 here, famed far and wide for heavy fleeces of fine 

 texture and innumerable winnings of prizes over 



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