K-^MSAS SURVEYED. 



LOCJiTION, SOIL, CLIMJITE, PRODUC- 

 TIOMS JIMD PEOPLE. 



Agricultural Empire: Land of Moral Citizen* 



ship. Sobriety, Churches and Kindly 



Climate. 



This will doubtless come to the attention of 

 thousands who know little or perhaps nothing 

 of, or have at best but the vaguest ideas of 

 Kansas or what the word signifies — whether the 

 name of a country, district, colony or province; 

 whether morass or mountain; whether forest or 

 prairie ; a land of productivity or of barren 

 waste. 



To those who would, but do not know, it 

 may be said that the name implies a section of 

 country 210 miles wide and 400 miles long, of 

 52,000,000 acres, the core of a continent — mid- 

 way between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, 

 and also equidistant from the northern and 

 southern boundaries of the United States of 

 America, between the thirty-seventh and fortieth 

 parallels. 



By some, her area may be better understood 

 from the statement that Kansas, practically all 

 arable, fertile land, is some 4 percent, wider in 

 extent than England, 80 per cent, larger than 

 Scotland, 70 per cent, larger than Ireland, and 

 seven times greater than Wales. Others may 

 grasp more readily the thought that either Den- 

 mark or Switzerland is little more than a fourth 

 as large, and the Netherlands are not one-fourth; 

 that Belgium has not one-fourth her area, and 

 Cuba but four-fifths, while the states of New 

 York and Indiana, or Maine and Ohio, united, 

 or all New England, with Delaware and Mary- 

 land for company, could find resting room on 

 her ample bosom. 



The surface of the State is that of a gently 

 undulating plain, having a gradually increasing 



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