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BIENNIAL MESSAGE

OF

G. W. GLICK,

GOVERNOR,

TO THE LEGISLATURE OF KANSAS.

1883.

TOPEKA, KANSAS:

KANSAS PUBLISHING HOUSE,

1883.

MESSAGE.

To the Legislature:

In obedience to a constitutional requirement and a timehonored custom, it is made my duty to address you, and submit such facts, reports and recommendations for your consideration and action as may be important to the State, and furnish you such information as may aid you in the faithful and intelligent discharge of your duties, so that you may perform them with fidelity to your constituents and credit to yourselves.

An abundant harvest has rewarded the husbandman for his labor, the stock interests of the State have been prosperous and remunerative, while labor has been fairly rewarded. All business has been reasonably productive, while the material wealth of the State has steadily and fairly increased, and demonstrates in an eminent and satisfactory manner that our State, while yet in its infancy, is capable of a development that will surprise the thoughtless and create wonder and admiration in the minds of those who can appreciate the grand development of the past and contemplate its capabilities for the future.

The Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shows in his report that our wheat crop was over 35,000,000 bushels, worth over $24,000,000, and over 157,000,000 bushels of corn, worth nearly $53,000,000, with a value of our cereal crops alone of over $83,000,000, and a total value of all farm products of $108,177,520.93, while our live-stock interests

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