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 ───────┴───────────┴──────────┴──────────┴──────────┴────────── 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. THE AREA OF KANSAS. The total area of Kansas is 52,288,000 acres. In 1865 only 243,712 acres of this vast territory were under cultivation; in 1870 the area aggregated 1,360,000 acres; in 1875, 4,749,900 acres; in 1880, 8,868,884 acres; and in 1885, 14,252,815 acres. In the following table I have compiled figures showing the area under cultivation, and the value of the crops produced in Kansas each year, from 1865 to 1885, inclusive: ═══════╤═══════════╤═══════════ _Year._│ _Acres in │ _Value of │ crops._ │ crops._ ───────┼───────────┼─────────── 1865 │ 243,712│ $5,347,875 1866 │ 273,903│ 6,023,849 1867 │ 397,622│ 8,129,590 1868 │ 562,120│ 10,467,163 1869 │ 855,801│ 15,807,550 1870 │ 1,360,000│ 18,870,260 1871 │ 1,322,734│ 17,335,120 1872 │ 1,735,595│ 15,498,770 1873 │ 2,530,769│ 28,311,200 1874 │ 3,179,616│ 30,842,630 1875 │ 4,749,900│ 43,970,494 1876 │ 5,035,697│ 45,581,926 1877 │ 5,595,304│ 45,597,051 1878 │ 6,538,727│ 49,914,434 1879 │ 7,769,926│ 60,129,780 1880 │ 8,868,884│ 63,111,634 1881 │ 9,802,719│ 91,910,439 1882 │ 11,043,379│108,177,520 1883 │ 11,364,040│106,707,529 1884 │ 13,011,333│104,297,010 1885 │ 14,252,815│ 92,392,818 ───────┴───────────┴─────────── VALUE OF FARM CROPS.