These figures should do much to correct any 

 impressions existing that Kansas is not a premier 

 agricultural domain, as they admirably serve to 

 place the Sunflower State in her true light, 

 showing that she has vanquished all competi- 

 tors, almost unbeknov/n even to herself, and 

 without apparent effort. Although the magni- 

 tude of the State's agricultural importance has 

 long been suspected by the well-informed, the 

 actu-'l revelation of Kansas' real greatness in 

 this respect through official figures has only of 

 late been given conspicuous publicity. 



The statistics quoted proclaim that Kansas is 

 without a peer in her line of undertaking; they 

 inform us, among other things, that of the fifteen 

 states leading in the value of wheat and corn 

 crops in 1900, Kansas, at 40 years of age, pro- 

 duced these staples to the extent of $66.51 worth 

 per capita, exceeding the output of Iowa, age 55, 

 by nearly $24 to each inhabitant; surpassing 

 Minnesota the much touted wheat state, by 

 nearly $43; Missouri, age 80, by over $44; 

 Indiana, age 85, over $45; Illinois, age 83, by 

 over $4650, and so on with corresponding in- 

 creasing differences in favor of Kansas to the 

 end of the list. 



It is also shown that Kansas leads its nearest 

 rival, Illinois, in the value of wheat and corn 

 produced in 1900 by over i^ million dollars, 

 Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri following in the 

 order named. The combined aggregate value of 

 these crops in four of the states of the fifteen but 

 little exceed that of Kansas alone, which amount 

 is greater than the value of the same crops of 

 Indiana and Ohio together, or more than the 

 united values of Texas and Minnesota. 



Kansas, fortunately, is somewhat dissimilar 

 from some of the states with which comparison 

 is made, in that she is not so distinctly a one- 

 crop state, and besides her usually fair rank as a 

 corn-grower, she has been setting a mark as a 

 wheat producer so far beyond that of her most 

 successful emulator as to have created another 

 class, in which she is alone, as well as annually 

 producing all field crops in abundance. 



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