Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . is tabulated statement will be not only interesting,but valuable, it is printed in full, together with the Secretarys state-ment of the dairying business during the same period. There are several significant figures in this report, indicating thewonderful wealth-producing capacities of this favored State, and amongthem we call attention to the fact that the high values in 1897 werenot at all due to extraordinary crops, but to good prices; and further
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . is tabulated statement will be not only interesting,but valuable, it is printed in full, together with the Secretarys state-ment of the dairying business during the same period. There are several significant figures in this report, indicating thewonderful wealth-producing capacities of this favored State, and amongthem we call attention to the fact that the high values in 1897 werenot at all due to extraordinary crops, but to good prices; and further-more, that the prices were not extraordinary, excepting as comparedwith the previous three or four years. 53 KANSAS. Without going into detailed comparisons to emphasize this point, itis enough to note what will surprise many of the eastern friends of theState, that while the value of the wheat crop in 1897 was nearly 50 percent above the average of the previous ten years, it was 25 per centless than that of the 91 crop, and 12>^ per cent less than the 92 crop;and that while the year, as a whole, justifies all the favorable things r^ 1. HAULING GRAIN TO MARKET. being said about Kansas in the newspapers of the country, yet, as amatter of fact, it was only an average year, after all. Taking all the agricultural crops of the State, and the live-stock during 1897, the total value is reported at 136^ million the entire ten years, the aggregate values were 1,363 millions, or136K millions a year—in other words, 1897 was exactly an averagecrop for the entire period since 1887. The phenomenal event of the year was the payment of mortgage debt;and it was assumed that this was due to the fact that Kansas had at lastharvested a good yield of crops. But the truth is that it is due to theharvesting of a big wheat crop in the section of the State west of thecenter, that has been most heavily mortgaged and has been least able, 54 KANSAS. up to this time, to make any
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