B JURYING IN K-^MSAS. 



COW-CULTURE Ji HIGHLY PROFITABLE 

 VOCJiTION. 



Enriches Man and Soil — Butter and Cheese 



Factories Produce Commodities of 



Superior Quality. 



Kansas farmers are learning year by year that 

 their business, if profitable, must be so conducted 

 that it is not the mere playing of a game of 

 chance with the weather or a single crop. Those 

 who most fully recognize these conditions and 

 most intelligently respond to their inexorable 

 requirements are realizing a fair or large pros- 

 perity. More attention, therefore, is being given 

 to a diversity along agricultural lines and quite 

 naturally many have taken to cow culture. Kan- 

 sas is admirably suited to the profitable pursuit 

 of dairying. On her productive soils can be 

 raised unlimited supplies of the best flesh and 

 milk-producing foods at incomparably low cost; 

 her meadows and pastures furnish nutritious 

 and succulent grasses in abundance and wide 

 variety, and the winters are short and mild, 

 thereby making long-time sheltering and expen- 

 sive indoor feeding and care less a necessity. 

 The corn, Kaffir corn and other sorghums, alfalfa, 

 clover and grasses produced here in great pro- 

 fusion, and, with the brans from our wheat, are 

 in large measure the ideal cheap raw material 

 for manufacturing on the farm, by means of the 

 cow, commodities that afford a ready money 

 income every month. 



Years 



Comparative Values. 



1897 



1898 



1899 



1900 



1901 



This diagram shows the vahies of Kansas dairy pro- 

 ducts annually and their increase for each of five years, 

 ending in 1901. 



