The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17
Why KANSAS Is GREAT.

The August number of the Kansas
Commercial News just out contains the
following pithy paragraphs from the
pen Of Tom A. NcNea1, to prove that
Kansas is Great:
This is the toughest season that Kan
sas has experienced for nearly a quar-
ter of a century.
At has been season of burning, bis
tering, diabolical heat, accompanied by
a spell Of drouth the most extended
and exasperating that the state has ex-
perienced for nearly forty years.
Still the season has really done more
to demonstrate the greatness of kan
sas than any we have experienced since
We became Kansans.
For instance, the state has raised the
greatest wheat crop Of all her history
When the harvest is gathered in it will
be found to amount to nearly 10000
600 bushels of wheat that is of better
qualify than ever went into the markets
before
When you stop to figure it up you
viii find that Kansas viii produce this
season nearly one-seventh of the entire
wheat crop of the United States.
If all the wheat in this years crop in
Kansas We're put into bushel measures
and the measures set one on top of the
other the stack would reach more than
nineteen thousand feet high. or nearly
one-twentieth OF the distance from the
earth to the moon.
Loaded on freight cars the crop
would fill two hundred thousand cars.
allowing five hundred bushels to the
car.
If the cars could all be gathered into
one train and put on a straight track
and started east the engine would be
whistling for New York before the ca
boose had crossed the Missouri river at
Kansas City
Ground into flour and made up into
Hakey biscuits and piled up together
the heap would be broader at the base
than Pixies Peak and still tower above
its bald summit by over two miles,
Tt is impossible to tell at this time
what the corn crop of Kansas viii
amount to- It is generally conceded
that as compared with the average
crop of Kansas it viii be a failure
but is illustrative Of the marvellous pro-
ductive powers of the soil even under
the most unfavorable circumstances.
Corn standing nine feet high and we'll
cared can be found growing in the bot
toms Of eastern Kansas at this writing
Kansas has two million head of cat
tie, and in spite Of the dry weather
viii be able to feed them through the
coming winter without serious diff
Guilty
Kansas has two million hogs. mil
lion horses and a hundred thousand
mules.
Kansas butter has taken the prize in
a competitive examination in England
although the dairy business in this
state may be said to be only in its in
fancy.
If all the cows of Kansas could be
compressed into one COW the combined
animal would drink from the muddy
waters Of the Missouri and at the same
time brush with her ample tail the
snow from the crests of the Rocky
mountains.
It has been discovered that Kansas
is as well calculated for the raising of
horses as any locality in the known
world
The Kansas atmosphere and the Kan
sas grasses are especially calculated to
develop endurance and speed. Several
marvellous trotters were reared in Kan
sas and the swiftest PAGERS of all the
centuries had here their birthplace.
The Kansas hen has a wider fame
than the egg-layer of any other cline
and her product is acknowledged by ex-
perts to grade higher than the eggs
laid in any other state or territory.
Kansas has over seven million of
bearing fruit trees and five million
more coming into bearing.
Kansas has never been counted as a
mineral state and yet there are sixteen
counties in which coal is being mined.
The amount Of coal mined during the
past year was nearly four and a half
million tons valued at the mines at
over five and half million dollars.
What Kansas needs is the ability to
work up her own products at home
With two million OF cattle, Kansas
buys leather tanned in Massachusetts
and wears shoes manufactured in New
England.
W ME CapaDle OF IdAS4HS tue HueSl
vegetables and fruits million bushels
of tin cans can be gathered up in the
state of Kansas bearing the brands of
California, Baltimore and other outside
places.
The greatest wheat producing state
in the union, Kansas is supplied with
crackers. biscuit. shredded wheat, etc.
all made outside of the state.
Kansas ships her products two thou
sand miles away to have them manu-
featured; then ships them back again
and pays the freight both ways
This system is WastefuL 1t isn't bus
mess. The object of Kansas CONNER
cial clubs is to change the system, to
induce manufacturing enterprises to
Kansas that viii work up the raw ma
terial into the finished product here at
home