The growth of our State in population has not, however, equalled the development of its material resources. The United States census of 1880 shows that while Kansas, at that date, ranked as the twentieth State in population, it was the eighth State in the number and value of its live stock, the seventeenth in farm products, the fourteenth in value of farm products per capita, the twentieth in wealth, the thirteenth in education, the seventeenth in the amount of its indebtedness, State and municipal, and the twenty-fourth in manufactures. Only one State, Nebraska, shows a smaller proportion of persons unable to read and write. And in twenty-eight of the forty-seven States and Territories, taxation, per capita, was greater than it is in Kansas. In 1880 Kansas was the sixth corn-producing State of the Union. Only Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio then produced larger crops of this cereal. But the corn product of Kansas, that year, was only 101,421,718 bushels, while for the year 1885 it was 194,130,814 bushels, or nearly double the crop of 1880. AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 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: ═══════╤═══════════╤══════════╤══════════╤══════════╤══════════ _Year._│ _Corn, │ _Wheat, │ _Oats, │_Potatoes,│ _Hay, │ bushels._ │bushels._ │bushels._ │bushels._ │ tons._ ───────┼───────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼────────── 1860 │ 6,130,727│ 194,173│ 88,325│ 296,325│ 56,232 1865 │ 6,729,236│ 191,519│ 155,290│ 276,720│ 118,348 1866 │ 6,527,358│ 260,465│ 200,000│ 243,000│ 123,082 1867 │ 8,459,000│ 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│ 4,116,000│ 530,000 1875 │ 80,798,769│13,209,403│ 9,794,051│ 4,668,939│ 1,156,412 1876 │ 82,308,176│14,629,225│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