The increase in the value of farms, of farm implements, and of farm
products, (including farm crops, products of live stock, and market
garden, apiarian and horticultural products,) is shown in the following
table. It will be seen that these values have generally doubled every
five years:
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│ _Value of │ _Value of │ _Value of
_Year._ │ farms._ │ farm │ farm
│ │implements._│products._
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1860 │$12,258,239│ $727,694│ $4,878,350
1865 │ 24,796,535│ 1,200,720│ 10,653,235
1870 │ 90,327,040│ 4,053,312│ 27,630,651
1875 │123,852,466│ 7,935,645│ 43,970,414
1880 │235,178,936│ 15,652,848│ 84,521,486
1885 │408,073,454│ 9,604,117│143,577,018
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The value of the farm products of Kansas, from 1876 to 1880, inclusive,
aggregated $356,557,802, while their value from 1881 to 1885, inclusive,
aggregated the enormous sum of $738,676,912.