This topical issue of Heritage of the Great Plains explores the history of agricultural technology on the plains, Kansas in particular.Each author looks at a particular facet of technology in a particular place on the plains.
Kalir was commonly called "kafir corn" by the farmers of Wabaunsee County, Kansas. Farmers up and down the Mill Creek valley of Wabaunsee County grew kafir in the 1920s and 1930s. Pockets of it, found in most farming ...