In the following table the aggregate of the corn, wheat, oats, potato,
and hay products of Kansas, for the years 1860 and 1865, and for each
year thereafter, is given. The figures, prior to 1875, are compiled from
the reports of the United States Department of Agriculture; those
following, from the reports of the Secretary of our own State Board of
Agriculture:
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_Year._ │ _Corn, │ _Wheat, │ _Oats, │_Potatoes, │ _Hay,
│ bushels._ │ bushels._ │ bushels._ │ bushels._ │ tons._
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1860 │ 6,150,727│ 194,173│ 88,325│ 296,325│ 56,232
1865 │ 6,729,236│ 191,519│ 155,290│ 276,720│ 123,082
1867 │ 8,159,000│ 1,250,000│ 236,000│ 314,000│ 162,000
1868 │ 6,487,000│ 1,537,000│ 247,000│ 850,000│ 118,000
1869 │ 16,685,000│ 2,343,000│ 1,500,000│ 1,500,000│ 250,000
1870 │ 17,025,525│ 2,391,197│ 4,097,925│ 2,342,988│ 490,289
1871 │ 24,693,000│ 2,694,000│ 4,056,000│ 3,452,000│ 687,000
1872 │ 46,667,451│ 3,062,941│ 6,084,000│ 3,797,000│ 728,000
1873 │ 29,683,843│ 5,994,044│ 9,360,000│ 3,000,000│ 977,000
1874 │ 15,699,078│ 9,881,383│ 7,847,000│ 1,116,000│ 530,000
1875 │ 80,798,769│ 13,209,403│ 9,794,051│ 4,668,939│ 1,156,412
1876 │ 82,308,176│ 14,620,225│ 12,386,216│ 5,611,895│ 809,149
1877 │103,497,831│ 14,316,705│ 12,768,488│ 3,320,507│ 1,228,020
1878 │ 89,323,971│ 32,315,358│ 17,411,473│ 4,525,419│ 1,507,988
1879 │108,704,927│ 20,550,936│ 13,326,637│ 3,521,526│ 1,551,321
1880 │101,421,718│ 25,279,884│ 11,483,796│ 5,310,423│ 1,534,221
1881 │ 80,760,542│ 20,479,679│ 9,900,768│ 2,055,202│ 2,122,263
1882 │157,005,722│ 35,734,846│ 21,946,284│ 5,081,865│ 2,293,186
1883 │182,084,526│ 30,024,936│ 30,987,864│ 6,812,420│ 6,002,041
1884 │190,870,686│ 48,050,431│ 20,087,294│ 7,861,404│ 7,105,132
1885 │194,130,814│ 10,859,401│ 30,148,060│ 7,398,465│ 7,685,340
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In presenting these figures it is worthy of note that while, as already
stated, the U. S. census reports for 1880 show that Kansas ranked as the
twentieth State in population and the sixth in its corn product, it was
also the eleventh wheat-producing State of the Union, the eleventh in
its oats product, sixteenth in barley, tenth in rye, eighth in hay, and
seventeenth in potatoes. Thus the rank of Kansas, in agricultural
products, was far ahead of her rank in population.