The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-09

agricultural report for 1SS9,-the last
upon issue, Kansas produced:
Grain. Bushels.
Wheat. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .oO,9I@'VOU.
Oats. ,529, 600
Corn. .240, sos, 600
1Oldl. .cOOs I"i,NSN
These three leading grain products,
their magnitude and import nee, will be
better unders God by instituting some
comparisons. Kansas raised more wheat
than New England, New York, Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and Delaware,
all combined. Kansas raised more
wheat than Montana, Idaho, Washing
ton and Oregon combined; and, more
wheat than Iowa, Texas and Arkansas
combined; and, more wheat than Mis-
souri, and Kentucky, and more than
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Texas all COM
bined.
Kansas raised, according to the same
authentic and reliable report, more oats
than the state of New York, more than
Pennsylvania, more than Texas and Ar
kansas put together, and more oats than
Dakota, Montana, Oregon, California
and Washington combined.
Kansas raised, as shown by the table
which we give above, more corn than
Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Cali
fornia and Oregon combined. More corn
than Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Dakota and Nebraska combined.
1t will be seen at once, with a return
of good prices for grain, that Kansas
will be richer from her products, will
have more money from her fields, than
many of the other states
combined. With such facts can
there be any question of the future
of the great central state. And this
wonderful showing is really only the
product of one-half of the state, the
eastern half which is only in a general
wav under cultivation. Take the section
of the state lying within one hundred
miles of the city of Wichita and accord
ing to the report of 1889 we have a still
grander showing of these leading cereals.
| Grain. Bushels
! Corn ............,....'...-. lll,'OO'Vot
! Wheat ............-.......... %l,2o5 4So
! Oats.......... .................. 2OHl,O4l
| Total. .........-..... lob, %
There was therefore more corn raised
within 100 miles of Wichita than in the
whole states of New Mexico, Texas and
Colorado combined, more than in the
state of Ohio or Indiana, more than was
raised by Wisconsion, Minnesota, Mchi-
gan, Dakota, California and Organ COM
bined and more than New York Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey,
and all the New England states COM
bined.
But there is a section of this realm OF
sunflowers which makes a much more
astonishing showing, a showing un
equaled by any like circumscribed agri
cultural area in the world of which any
statistical knowledge can be gained. Il
is the charmed circle, the central spot Of
the last named area, of but one hundred
miles in diameter, of which Wichita is
the center and the market. 1t consist
of practically eleven Kansas counties
= watered by the Great and Little Arkansa-
rivers, and by their tributaries. 1t Is on,
, of the wonderful spots of earth, rivalin!
the delta Of the Nile. if indeed it doe
not surpass any district of like area eve
occupied by man. These eleven coun
| ties produced seventy-tive million, fou
I hundred and eighty-two thousand, sil
: hundred and eighty bushels of wheat
i oats and corn last year, as follcwa: