being worked. It is safe to say that just as good 

 showings may be made in other sections of the 

 State after they shall have had the same intelli- 

 gent attention. 



The world has done honor to Joe Patchen and 

 to John R. Gentry, as well as to many other 

 remarkable specimens of horseflesh It will prob- 

 ably astonish many outside of the race track 

 coterie, and perhaps some of its members, to learn 

 that both John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen are 

 products of Kansas stock farms, and that 

 Cresceus is of Kansas parentage. The heaviest 

 fleece ever produced was clipped from a Kansas 

 sheep. And so it goes. There are many other 

 wonderful things that could be told of the pro- 

 ducts of Kansas, but as Secretary F. D. Coburn, 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, has so well 

 written the story of the State as a whole, it would 

 result only in needless repetition. f 



The railroad that has done most to advance 

 the interests of Kansas, and the one that reaches 

 more points in the State than any other line, is 

 the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, 

 which operates in sixty-four of the one hundred 

 and five counties, and on whose lines are situated 

 about eighty percent, of the principal cities. 



The sections producing Patchen, Gentry and 

 Cresceus, the one with the record for wood clip- 

 ping, as well as the points where exists the 

 greatest activity in live-stock generally, are allj 

 on the Santa Fe. One may reach via this line 

 the scenes of Kansas' greatest agricultural 

 growth as well as points where there are oppor- 

 tunities for a profitable extension of the vast en- 

 terprises in wiiich the farmer, the stockman and 

 the horticulturist are engaged. 



It is also worthy of note that the State's new 

 and promising industry of beet-raising for the 

 manufacture of sugar is first being developed in 

 exclusive Santa Fe territory, and encouraged by 

 lastyeai's successes there probably will be in- 

 creased activity displayed along the same line in 

 the same section in 1902 and following years 

 There is no other railroad in Kansas that can take, 

 you direct to where these beets are grown, or to 

 the manufactory at Rocky Ford, Colorado. 



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