THE RJULKOJiB'S STORY. 



Of the many thousands of persons who have 

 heard about Kansas, only a comparatively small 

 , number possess any correct notion of the State 

 'i and her resources. Some appear to believe it is a 

 [<3— State whose visible assets are drouths, cyclones, 

 blizzards, crop failures and cranks. It is hoped 

 . a perusal of the following pages will help correct 

 f^ such erroneous impressions. An attempt has 

 [^_p been made to describe matters as they are and by 

 candid statem.ents of fact to demonstrate to the 

 agriculturist (using the term in its more compre- 

 hensive sense) that he can do better in Kansas 

 than in most of the States of the Union. 



The year 1899 '^'^'^^s a very prosperous one and 

 few localities can justly complain of the manner 

 in which bountiful nature fulfilled her obliga- 

 tions, o Kansas in 1899 raised almost eleven per 

 cent, of the country's total corn supply and nearly 

 eight per cent, of the wheat; in 1900, eight per 

 cent, of the corn, and sixteen per cent, of the 

 wheat, while 1901, a year lean for many, proved 

 the most profitably productive in agricultural 

 values that has ever been recorded in the State's 

 history, the wheat crop alone being worth on the 

 farms where grown over 506 million dollars, 

 and its yield aggregating considerably over 

 90,000,000 bushels, of highest quality, the largest 

 output of this life-giving cereal ever garnered by 

 any State in any year. 



In the pages that follow, actual conditions are 

 concisely set forth, and it is believed the tabu- 

 lated statements of quantities and values will 

 prove serviceable to earnest and interested in- 

 quirers. 



When it is considered that Kansas still has 

 rnany thousands of acres unsubdued and uncul- 

 tivated, and that the recorded quantities and 

 values of products represent only the output of 

 a partially developed State, it speaks volumes 

 tor the fertility and richnet>s of the portions now 



