Bulletins and Reports of the State Board of Agriculture. Bulletins and Reports of the Agricultural College. Andreas, History of Kansas, pp. 252-265. Blackmar, Kansas, Selected Topics. Old Newspaper Files. Historical Collections, vol. IX, pp. 33, 94, 480; vol. XI, pp. 81-211; vol. XII, p. 60. Walters, History of the Agricultural College. Tuttle, History of Kansas. Prentis, History of Kansas, pp. 232-234, 292-295. Publications of the University Geological Survey of Kansas. QUESTIONS 1. What is the leading industry of Kansas? 2. Discuss the Indians as farmers. 3. What agricultural progress was made during the Territorial period? During the Civil War? 4. When and why was the Agricultural Society formed? What has taken its place? Tell something of the work of the new organization. 5. Describe the early farm implements and methods of farming. What have you learned of these things from old settlers? 6. What were the agricultural conditions in Kansas in 1880? Between 1880 and 1887? 7. What connection does the date 1887 have with the agricultural history of the State? What conditions followed this date? 8. What are the soil and climate conditions of western Kansas? Give an account of irrigation in that section. 9. Name new crops that came into prominence about 1890, and tell something of each. 10. What conditions prevailed in Kansas in the early ’90’s? During the period that followed? 11. Discuss Kansas wheat; Kansas corn. 12. Discuss the live-stock industry in Kansas. 13. Give an account of the cattle trade of earlier days. 14. What progress has horticulture made in Kansas? 15. What farmers’ organizations have been formed? For what purpose? 16. Discuss the relation of the Agricultural College to the farmers. 17. Discuss the milling industry of our State. The meat-packing industry. 18. Name the mineral resources of Kansas. Discuss each. 19. What manufacturing industries have grown from the mineral resources? 20. What industries are carried on in your community? Are any others being considered? CHAPTER XVI TRANSPORTATION IN KANSAS =The Beginning of Railroads in the United States.= About the time Kansas was becoming the highway for the Santa Fe trade, experiments were being made in England with a new invention, the steam locomotive. By 1825 a fair degree of success had been attained. During the next half dozen years experiments were carried on in the United States, and by 1831 several short railroad lines were in use. By 1850 one could travel by rail between the chief cities of the East and as far west as St. Louis, but a decade more passed before any railroads were built in Kansas.