The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-21
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wealth Show Development.
One of Largest Producers of
Zinc and Petroleum.
STATE OFFICIALS GIVE PRAISE
Largest Per Capita Bank Ac-
counts of ANY State.
Leads NATION in Production Of
Wheat, Says j. C. MohIer.
tBr the Associated rress.l

Kansas is steadily forging ahead as
one of the richest states of the nation.
The resources of this midwest COM
monwealth are being developed TO
such an extent that Kansas, once the
widest of wild country. now ranks
as one of the largest producers OF
various crops. cattle, poultry, zinc and
petroleum of the United States and of
the world. Kansas long has been
known as the greatest producer OF
wheat of any political unit in the
world and now she produces more
alfalfa than any other state. The
Sunflower state stands among the
first six states in the Union in cattle
and poultry raising and in zinc and
petroleum production.
These facts are borne out by
series of articles lauding the re-
sources and riches of Kansas prepared
by state officials.
Large Bank Deposits. k.ll
Many indications that this state has
her share of the coin of the realm
are pointed out in a statement of
which State Treasurer e. I. Thomp-
son is author. The people of Kansas.
the treasurer declares. have the larg-
est per capita bank deposits of any
state in the nation, The deposits now
total $439, ,754!29. Kansas per-
manent school fund totals $40, ,062, ,504.
anu y u1lG oUs lIll5 year All dhGiiOA
to the Ischooi fund, there was $S9,-
734374.92 in the state treasury. And
Kansas does not owe a dollar" the
treasurer declares.
Returns made to the office of State
Auditor N. A. Turner show that on
September 80, this year, there were
321.656 automobiles owned in Kansas,
more than one iachine to every five
citizens of the state. This is a rec
ord equalled by less than half a doz-
o. eff - he auditor HIS
ords show that during the three
months of July. August and Septen-
ber.< Kansas people bought 31,2o0
cars, trucks nd, motorcycles. Fig
each. the auditor points out that
Kansas spent $24, ,960.000 for motor
conveyances in a quarter of a year.
Prodigy of Production.
Secretary J. @. MohIer of the state
board of agriculture, has compiled
long list of the agricultural sdvan-
tages and supremacies of this state.
His statement is in booklet form and
he calls it Prodigy of Produc-
ton" In beginning a series of the
many records held by the state in the
agricultural line, Secretary Moh.er
quotes William Allen White, Emporia
author and editor: THE Lord said,
let there be Light and there was
Kansas"
kansas produces more wheat than
any other state in the Union and is
the greatest producer of hard winter
wheat Of any political unit in the
world Mr.. Mohler begins. Count
ing only one bushel to the acre. no
says, the amount of wheat needed to
seed the L nsas acreage in 1922 was
12,290,858 bushels, which is more
than the whole wheat crop in any
one of the twenty-nine of the forty
eight states. fhe total production OF
wheat in Kansas during the five-year
period ending with 1921 was 591.-
O85,000. North Dakota was next
with 364 4,049, 900 bushels. illinois, Ne
braska, Minnesota, Missouri. Okla
homa, South Dakota, Washington and
Indiana ranked in the order named.
The Kansas wheat acreage this year
is double the total crop area OF all
1f the New England states.
Seventh in Corn Acreage.
Corn is the IIainstay of the great
eat-making industry of Kansas, Sec
retary Mohler continues. Kansas
ranks seventh among the states in
corn acreage. "The $4,000 in corn
this year is greater than the total
acreage in all crops in eighteen other
annually of Kansas corn for the last
twenty years has been $567.679,O16-
Corn and wheat give Kansas fourth
place among the states in production
of cereal crt rs.
an the thirty-one years since al
falfa first entered the inventory OF
Kansas agriculture. this state became
the largest grower among all states Of
this important crop," Mr.. Mohler goes
IN. 1.-THE growth Of alfalfa in Kansas
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