The Topeka state journal., 1899-01-17
BEEF, PORK AND POULTRY.
Biennial Report of Agricultural Board
Just From the Press.

The eleventh biennial report of the state
Of the state printer yesterday afternoon
and is now ready for distribution. 1t is
ing that has ever been published in the
west, containing, as it does. large
production, pork production and farm
nearly 500 of S4s pages of the volume. In
addition there is a chapter devoted to the
mineral products of Kansas, and the sta
tistics gathered by the assessors during the
past two years are also given:
AS yet no postage fund has been provid-
fary yo Co6urn states R That it Win % be neces
sary for those who desire it now to send
The Volume is Illustrated with 800 en-
cravings. mostly of cattle. hogs and poul-
In his Introductory Secretary Coburn
says of the report:
in their commonplace affairs to the. tillers
and toilers of Kansas-those who raise the
grains and grasses, and out OF them pro-
duce the milk and meat and wool, the re-
turns from which build better homes and
furnish them with added comforts 1t at
the same time carries forward, as a some
what secondary yet greatly important
hensive forms which have made these re-
ports world-famous from their beginning;
statistics showing in detail the states soil
and live stock productions, together with
period. for the Information of ali Who
would study Kansas from the standpoint
of the actual practical rather than of sur
mise or theory.
The practical subjects mainly dealt with
are 1he prOnIdDiS prOQQcIlOn OF peer, cal
tie, swine and poultry, for each of which
the state is notably adapted These are
all discussed in their various aspects and
phases by the most thoroughly successful
breeders, the profoundeSt students and the
most patient and painStaking experiment.
erS of the time. Their observations and
conclusions are here brought together, sup
plemented with with appropriate illustra-
tionS, for the purpose of affording answers
to the innumera BILE questions likely to con-
front at any time even the most expert
enced no less than the novice, and pre-
sent fund of information found nowhere
else in a single volume. In addition is
presented instructive article, specially
prepared by Prof. G. p. Grimsley. setting
forth the states mineral resources and
their rapid development; also an inciSive
analysis of Kansas agricultural showing
for the twenty year period just closed, by
that careful student and observer, Mr.. H.
r. Hilton
''The carefully collated and very con-
servative statistics show home value for
farm products, in the two years covered
by the report, of $2SS. .259, ,096, which was
gain of $43. .465, ,3O1, or but slightly less than,
IS per cent, over the biennial period i'm
ton owing to the Inflated prices then pre-
Vailing, was exceeded to the extent of
about l per cent in 1SS3-S4
1.-The value of live stock on hand in
March in each of the two years aggre-
gated $207, 800, ,S1S being an increase of SEQ
797, $50, or A. .49 per cent. There was a no.
ticeable Improvement in the prices of
various farm crops within two years, and
yet none maintained an especially high
average in either year Notwithstanding
the latter fact, the total worth of the 1897
9S soil products and live stock was greater
by S104, ,262. 961 than for the years 1856