The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-26
IT'S GRAND STATE
GIOries of Kansas Told in Re-
vised Santa Fe Booklet.
ssBy the Way" Has Been Issued
in Newly Edited Form.

The passenger department OF the
Santa Fe railway has issued revised
edition of it's booklet, by the way
The introduction to the chapter on
Kansas. written by j. c. Mohler, secre-
tary of the state board of agriculture,
Is as follows:
with no mountains or lakes to in
terfere, few stumps to pull and no sur
face rocks to remove, the rich prairies
of Kansas stretch their gently rolling
surface four hundred miles westward
from the Missouri river toward the
foothills Of the Rockies in one vast
area of plowland.
'rIn the short span of six decades
this expanse of fertile soil has been
transformed from the emptiness of the
plains into a garden spot, habited by
an energetic people and productive be-
yond the dreams of optimism.
Annual Crop Yield OF 500, 900 900.
with more acres under the plow
than any other state save Texas. which
is three times as large, and with an
annual yield of $700,00o,000 in farm
crops, Kansas takes front rank among
the states of the Union in agricultural
production.
I'm 1921 Kansas produced one
seventh OF all the wheat in the United
States, and had no close competitors
among the states. This state is now
the largest producer Of hard winter
wheat of any political unit in the
world, and this wheat has an inter-
national reputation for its unrivaled
bread-nnaking qualities.
THE United States department of
agriculture ranks Kansas as sixth
among the states in acreage OF corn,
and third in the grain sorghunls, which
are practically equal to- corn in feed
ing value, both as grain and in the silo-
Leads in Alfalfa Production.
"For many years Kansas has been
the leading state in the production of
alfalfa, having had an average area of
f,14s,000 acres during the last three
years and exceeding all other states
The farm value of the Kansas alfalfa
crops in 1918 was $2s,433ssSo. while
in 1920, but 5 years later, the farm
value was S4s,000,930, on . signify
smaller acreage
''Standing fourth Among the states
in number of beef cattle, this state
has the second largest meat packing
industry in the world with an annual
output of more than $165, coo. 900.
Kansas ranks t.ird in flour milling
with a yearly product of S68,476,410.
Last year the Kansas dairy COW
produced the value of 500 acres OF
land, worth 5000 per acre, for every
and holidays. Kansas dairy products
have increased 400 per cent in annual
value in the last ten years.
by Just laying around the Kansas
hen last year produced $4,000. 900
more than the whole cost of the Lou
isiana Purchase to this government,
or enough to buy FL 900 automobiles
at II 900 each.
with q production of more than
s120,o00, 600 in netroleum and natural
gas, last year Kansas more than dou-
bled the product of all TIE gold mines
in the United States, including Alaska.
with Short and Ms winters an
of the be@ Oesh and milk
producing feeds at low cost. and easy
access to large s1arkets. Kansas is ad-
suited to the production of
profitable livestock ana farm crops.
And Kansas has separate school for
every sixty-fiye of her school popula-
ton"