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Show Is vi mt ot the extraordinary immigration immi-gration to Kansas this spring it is interesting to know that the wheat crop of the Btata last year amounted to 02,315.05s buabels, valued at too (arm at $18,441,067, an increaBe in huuhcU over 1S77 of 17,998,653, and in value of J6, 00, 9oS, and thelareoat crop evrr grown by any American etate. The average yield per acre waa 19.24 bushels, but the Kansas city ' slates that Mr. J. 8 Holicuger, resuii'.g near Abilene, Dickinson county, ICIi miles wrst of Kansas city, hurvettd last year from his farm of 500 acres 17,000 btishela of wheat, or an average of 31 bushels to the nere. If it be truo that the failure ol a win-at crop is unknown in Kansas history it is no wonder that the eastern farmers regard it as a sort of westorn paradise. |