. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . alf as much as did the Eastern farmers. While Kansas has these unsurpassed market facilities on her eastern border, 1 noticed the other day that a ship drawing 21 feet of water wentout of Galveston harbor loaded with cars of Kansas corn, which indicates that our products are brought within 600 miles of cheap ocean trans-portation on the s
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . alf as much as did the Eastern farmers. While Kansas has these unsurpassed market facilities on her eastern border, 1 noticed the other day that a ship drawing 21 feet of water wentout of Galveston harbor loaded with cars of Kansas corn, which indicates that our products are brought within 600 miles of cheap ocean trans-portation on the south. The commercial advantages of Kansas are fast becoming such as they would be if we should take the State and place one end on Lake Michi-gan and let the other extend across Indiana into Ohio; and the value of our lands will soon reach the price of land in the above-mentioned average price of land in the United States is 819 per acre. In Indiana, S31 per acre; in Illinois, $ per acre; in Iowa, peracre; in Ohio, $ per acre ; in Missouri, $ per acre — making an average of $29 per acre for the principal corn-producing States, while inKansas it is only 38 per cent, of that amount, or about $11 per acre. (44). WnEAT-FIELD. 640 ACRES. SOUTH OF GARDEN CITY, FINNEY COUNTY. When we compare the average products of these lauds, we find that for a series of years the average product of corn in the United States is?25 bushels per acre, while Kansas is excelled by but few States in the Union in her average of 28 bushels per acre, and other crops in about thesame proportion. Labor is as cheap here as elsewhere, and one man can farm more acres of ground in Kansas than in any country I was ever in. Thus in sunny Kansas, the golden granary of the world, the average cost of land is less, the labor of production less, while the yield is amongthe greatest, and there is no better clime on earth for rearing the kinds of stock at the least expense. I am in lo
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