2,114,201 hogs on hand March i, 1901, were 

 valued on the farms at $13,742,306. 



The following table shows the aggregate value 

 of the live-stock in Kansas for each of the last 

 five years : 



1897 $ 94,074,885 



1898 113,227,933 



'899 133,057,092 



1900 143,457,753 



1901 153,037,732 



Total ■•$636,855,395 



By nature Kansas is made a superb fattening 

 ground for live-stock of all kinds. With her 

 numerous varieties of grains and grasses, some 

 one or more of them being especially adapted to 

 and prospering in the variant conditions of the 

 different localities, the State is each year prac- 

 tically assured of a well-nigh unlimited supply of 

 the very best meat-producing foods, which are 

 largely and profitably marketed via the live-stock 

 route. Animals slaughtered for meat or sold for 

 that purpose alone represented nearly sixty-one 

 million dollars in the year ending March i, 1901, 

 and annually for the past ten years Kansas has 

 given to the shambles animals having an average 

 home value of more than forty-five million dollars, 

 or an aggregate of considerably over $450,000,000 

 In this connection, it is entirely just and proper to 

 correct an erroneous impression that has some- 

 how become widespread, and that is that the 

 great stock yards and gigantic slaughter and 

 packing-houses of Kansas City, with one excep- 

 tion the most extensive in the world, located in, 

 maintained and made possible by the State of 

 Kansas, are not now and never were in Missouri, 

 as many are led to believe, but in Kansas City, 

 Kansas, the State's metropolis. As a matter of 

 fact, the latest available statistics show that in a 

 chosen year Kansas furnished six times as many 

 as its closest competitor, and often more and very 

 seldom ever less than 50 per cent of the entire 

 number of cattle received at the Kansas City 

 stockyards each year, not to speak of sheep and 



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