Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-08-25
COMPARISON.
Fifty-Nine Kansas Counties
With Twenty-Seve States.
Kansrs Beats the World on Ten Year
Average of Wheat and Corn-De-
ferred Business Now Waking Up
About Wool, Tin and Silk.
Figures of Great Interest.

TOPEKA, August 2O-J. NJ. Mcfarland,
formerly assistant secretary Kansas state
board of agriculture, and state satistician of
the department at Washington. and now of
the Accounting Trust company, of Topeka,
Kansas, has prepared a pam phlet concern
ing eastern Kansas, its production of Indian
corn for ten years, compared with that
of the twenty-seven states lying east of the
Mississippi river for the same period. This
compilation represents immense amount
of work, that scarcely shows upon the sur
face to the reader that is unfa niliar with
statistical work. and who is unacquainted
with the methods employed in constructing
national and state agricultural reports. The
information contained in the pamphlet is
taken from the annual reports of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington and the
biennial reports of the state board of agri-
culture of Kansas, no other authorities be-
ing used, and the pamphlet is therefore Off
cial in its character. line Is drawn through
the center of the state, commencing at the
northwest corner of Jewell county and strik-
ing the southern boundary at the southwest
corner of Harper county. The section east
of the line is called eastern Kansas, and this
territory, comprising fifty counties,
cotaining Al ,937 square miles and pOpula-
ton on March l, 1893, of 1.149,3l2, IS placed
in com pariSon against the twenty-seven
states comprising that portion of our coun-
try that lies east of the Mississippi river.
The pamphlet contains twenty-five tables
of comparison; ten tables of Indian corn,
ten of wheat and two of recapitulatlons. We
have only space to give the recapitulations.
The average yield of Indian corn for this
period. fer eastern Kansas, was 1921 bush
els per acre, the state ranking as mum ber
twelve among the states under comparison.
The eleven states that precede her make up
together but little more than the acreage of
eastern Kansas, md but few more bushels
of production. Ohio and Indiana, each hav-
ing less area and less production, are the
only states that have higher average for
this ten wear period the other eight states
of higher rank than eastern Kansas having
collectively but little more than half the
acreage or production The state of Illinois
alone precedes eastern Kansas in area and
product, but falls below her in average yield.
For the ten year period the average yield
per acre of wheat, in eastern Kansas. was
1858 bushels. which places her in the front
rank as a wheat producing state. The state
of sachusetts, with an aggregate acreage
in ten years of but 5490 acres, and 88, 700
bushels. alone precedes her in average yield,
while eastern Kansas produced during this
period 222, 800, ,808 bushels from 1897 ,795
acres comparison that cannot be made
and just conception be formed. The pam
phlet closes as follows:
''The comparison extends no farther than
to the two great cereals of corn and wheat,
and therefore, c'oses here. There is enough
contained in the figures presented to cause
reflective mind to pause before condemna-
tion is passed upon the state of Kansas as a
whole.
''We have political and financial woes-as
which of the older safes has not?-but hlth-
erto we have risen superior to them, stronger
and richer than before and we have no
doubt when the present depressing condi-
tions (affiicting not only Kansas. but the
entire nation) have passed away, the proph-
ecy of Charles Sumner in 1856 will come
true, and Kansas be minstering angel to
the republic in the years to come"