Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — KANSAS CROPS. [ARTICLE]

KANSAS CROPS.

The secretary ot the Kansas State? Board o£ Agriculture has Just tabulated ih: comparative form statistics? obtained! from the U. S. Department: off Agriculture year books. The tables are brief and graphic and', calculated to surprise those who > have looked on, Kansas as a semi-arld state. Kansas ranks first in the value 1 of wheat, and corn raised for the ffve years r 896. to 1900, Inclusive, and also for thn year 1900 alone; first in the value-of wheat alone raised in-1800; fiftH'. lh; the value of corn alone for, the same period; second, in the value of wheat and corn raised in 1900 per capita. TTie same authority gives the number of; bushels of corn raised in Kansas In 20. years as 2.995,985.308. and the number. of bushels of wheat raised in: same period as 691,297,613. These are truly wonderful figures. In part they show the solid basis of value on which the securities of the Santa Fe railway rest, for the Santa Fe is to Kansas what the Pennsylvania railroad is to Pennsylvania, the chief transportation agency, with lines covering the state more generally than di® those of any other company. A new booklet on the resources of Kansas Is being prepared by the Santa passenger department and will beready for distribution early In theyear. The booklet will contain statistics for the year 1901.