Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1903 — KANSAS' GREAT WHEATOUTLOOK [ARTICLE]

KANSAS' GREAT WHEATOUTLOOK

Despite the Flooi a Hundred Million Bushels May Yet Be Kaiaed. .Throughout the realm of newspaperdom great interest was aroused by accounts of the enormous loss of property and the attendant loss of life incident to the recent floods, which swept with ruinous results over a large section of the State. Actuated by one of the purest of motives many people, as by a common impulse, delved deep into the proverbial sock that the suffering of their Kansas brothers might be alleviated. It is needier* to say that the people of the Sunflower State are highly appreciative of the sympathy and assistance showered upon them in their hour of distress. They insist, however, that Kansas is not so badly crippled as might appear at first glance. While the people of the inundated district have suffered great loss, it is charged that the State, as a whole, will not lose more than 5 per cent of the wheat crop; and that kinder conditions at all • favorable during the remainder of the season 100,000,000 bushels of this staple cereal will be raised. Rash as this claim may seem to be, It is well substantiated by the facts regarding the wonderful productiveness of the State during the lart few years. In 1895 Kansas ranked sixth among the States in the production of wheat. In 1896 she was third, and iu ’97-’9B second. A temporary .relapse followed, but for two years she has held first place. According to the United States Department of Agriculture Kansas holds the record among the leading fifteen grain States for the value of wheat and corn raised in the five-year period .beginning with 1896. She was first in the value of her wheat in 1900 and 1901. first in the value of her grain as compared with population.