The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-24

point by j. w. Gleed; "Religiously,"
by Rev. DR.. Hayes; Legally, by
Chief Justice Johnston; From
Prohibition Standpoint" by Rev. DR..
At the close of the dinner DIR. Abbott
said, that the instruction offered him
certainly was from a remarkable
galaxy of law and learning and that
the faculty before him was the largest
of which he knew considering the num-
Der of students, himself alone, for
whom the curriculum was prepared and
carried out.
Secretary Coburn certainly gave DR..
Abbott a concise and valuable state
ment about the marvelS of Kansas as
an agricultural state in these words:
Secretary Coburn on Kansas.
In consideration of her other ex-
tensive and varied resources, such as
her Unreasonable supplies of petrol
cum, natural gas, coal, lead, zinc, salt,
gypsum, building stone, water, sun
shine and timber Kansas is always
modest, even to coyness, in any allu-
sions to her agriculture. AS is well
known this diffidence-not to say
shrinking timidity-this disposition to
elude the spotlight under all circum-
stances has done more than aught
else to prevent her having the atten-
ton, the recognition and the immi-
grafton so unquestionably and SO un-
hesitatingly vouchsafed to sister COM
monwealths. This condition, however,
is but verifieation of the poets aver
ment that
Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the des-
ert air.
I'm spite of her shrinking from
having it advertised, Kansas with her
y 600 0OO of fertile soil and
nearly all arabic, is prominently
adapted to agriculture, and this, in
Guiding live stock husbandry, is the
states premier industry.
AS one item of our agriculture
may be mentioned wheat. Our pro-
duction of this cereal in 1901, accord
ing to the United States department
of agriculture, was nearly 100,000,0O0
bushels, or the largest crop ever re-
ported for any state; and in the past
ten years the state has yielded an ag
gregate of 730, 609,479 bushels, worth
$446. 75S, 791-a record without a par
allel. In this time she has raised
three of the largest wheat crops in
America, and, therefore, in the world,
officially reported as follows: In 1900,
S2.4SS,655 bushels, or sixty per cent
more than any other state; in 1901,
99,079,304 bushels; and in 1908, ST.
249,557 bushels. Kansas has pro-
duced six wheat crops worth fifty mill
lion dollars each, and five of these
were in the past five years. The gov
eminent reports rate Missouri, Cali
fornia and Michigan as among the
crack winter wheat producers of the
world, but in 1907 Kansas raised
more than these three combined. In
1903 Kansas raised but little less than
one-sixth of the wheat crop of the
United States, and the government re-
port said she produced in 1901 more
than one-thirtieth of all the wheat in
the world,
1.-The fact that Kansas produces
more wheat than any other state
would naturally cause those without
knowledge of the facts to suppose
wheat was by far the states main and
foremost crop: yet compared with her
corn, wheat is a side issue, and but
one of various secondary items the
worth Of which must be aggregated
to even approach the value of her
corn. While wheat has made the state
famous it is corn that makes her rich.
In Kansas corn is the monarch cereal
and prosperity's barometer.
"In ten years the value of Kansas
corn crops has been S1O6,OOO,OOO
more than that of the wheat produced
in the same period, which included
three of the states largest wheat
crops and one of the smallest of corn.
In the preceding ten years the corn
crop was worth nearly $500, GOO, 900
more than the wheat.
''In 1902 the Kansas corn crop was
worth over 100000 more than all
her other products of the soil, and it
was also in two preceding seasons.
The value of the corn alone in each of
fifteen years of the past twenty has
been greater than that of all other
field crops together. In 1899, accord
ing to the governments reports, the
Kansas corn yield was greater than
that of all the New England states,
New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
Michigan, Virginia, South Carolina,
Florida, West Virginia, Maryland
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
Montana, wyoming, Colorado, New
California and Oklahoma combined
Five years later, in 1904, in spite OF
her destructive floods Kansas produc-
| ed more corn than all New England
| Pennsylvania, Minnesota and thirteen
additional states and territories. Ir
almost any year three or four of the
| states los counties produce more
corn than the entire Dominion o.
| Canada. The value of her corr
grown in the past twenty years /!
| 500, 100000 more than that of all the
wheat crops grown by Kansas since
her beginning. Kansas in 1896 anG
| 1899 raised more corn by 40 per cen
| than was raised by Missouri.
1.-THE tame grasses occupy large
areas, and hay crops aggregating ir
value more than 100000 annually
represent a large factor in our pros
| perity. Alfalfa, the most wonderful
of all forage plants finds here it.
happy habitat. and from it's three
quarter million acres yields each sea
son from three to five cuttings of tn,
| most valuable hay known. TIL,
grains and grasses grown here in suc1
profusion, with the mild climate, nat
urally make Kansas prominently
live stock region, and some of tn,
most notable domestic animals known
to history have been bred here. Jo
Patchen and John r. Gentry, marvel
of the harness horse world, had to b.
born here, as did Baby Lord the Me
rino sheep that sheared a year
fleece of So pounds, surprising tn
worlds record by tx pounds. TIL
marketing of s72,000,000 worth o
meat animals and dairy products il