The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-03-20
BARErAoED FALsEuooDs

citation to the crops, and among the a
est we find the following from Hum. 9
'oidt Kansas, which contains such 8
hameful and bare-faced misrepresenta-l {
ions that we are surprised to find it int Il
he columns of the Democrat: 3
HUMBOLDT, Allen Co. Kansas.
February 10Th, 1868 II
EDITORS Missouri DEMOCRAT: Hay-
ng been informed that it is your desire Il
10 know the amount of small grain sown
in the different parts OF the State, and
also having noticed a report in your pa
Ter purporting to be from one j. S.
Shaubell, of COffcy county, Kansas,
Southern Kansas at thirty bushels to the
acre, will just say that it was gross
misrepresentation of the average yield
of wheat. / have been close observer
of wheat raising i'll Southern Kansas
since 1861, and summing mp the several
crops raised, / find that about four
bushels per acre will be fair estimate,
and l further say that this is not farm
ing country, and never will be, as the
soil of Southern Kansas is not adapted |
to raising small grains. 1t lacks consid-
cradle OF being a good corn growing |
country. Take the stock raising away |
from Kansas and it is fit for nothing but
Indians to roam over. There has been
column after column filed with glow
| ing reports of the productive soil OF
| Southern Kansas, and those hOwery re-
ports have induced thousands of men
| to sell out and emigrate to this country.
The result has been that ls1fie-tenths of
these men have become disheartened.
don't say this because have any par
ticular hatred toward Kansas, but be-
cause it is n true statement, in my judg-
ment, of things in Southern Kansas.
There were thousands of acres of wheat
and rye sown in this country last fall,
and at least onc-half is already winter
killed; so the prospect for wheat in
Southern Kansas is small.
A FARMER.
That everybody should not like Kan
sas, or that many, even, should give the
world the benefit of their opinion that it
is not a good farming country, is natur-
al, and on the whole, well enough. 1t
would not do for everybody to think
Kansas the best country i'll the west; be-
cause if they did, other States open for
settlement would suffer. But that Il
man could be found to write such ma
licious lies about the country is surpris-
ing, and we'll venture that the author is
either bloviating fool or the Oldest
, son ofthe gentleman who has the repu-
tation of being the 1'ater .funailtds OF
all liars.
The evidence of the falsity of the
statements in the above letter exists on
every farm in Southern Kansas. 1t is
also found in the fact that there are hun
dreds and thousands of farmers who
have been following the occupation Of
tilling the soil every year for the past
!, eight or ten years, and all have made 6
i living, while many-a larger proportion
t than in any country we know of-havG
@ accumulated money and property
c These are facts which the observing
: gentleman who wrote the above batcl
c oflies can sec on all hands.
' We do not maint IL that Kansas il
4 the best farming country in the world
| Taking the past ten years together VIZ
o do not assert that We have raised thir
I tv bushels of wheat to the acre. But we
!. do assert that, in nearly half of the sea
!. sons of the last ten years, we have rails
5 ed thirty bushels Of wheat to the acre
1 and that in that time, we have raised al
n average of as much wheat to the acre a
e any State i'll the Union, with the excep
). ton of Minnesota and California. Th'
It average yield of other small grains ha
# been fully as good as that of wheat. Gu
C climate is subject to dry spells which of
i, ten injurc the crops. Were it not TO
:. these Kansas would be the best farming
If country east OF the Rocky Mountains
J. AS the country grows older-as the an
e nual prairie fires arc decreased in OK
II tent, and as the prairics are broken up
+. the seasons become more regular. Tn
,e planting of groves of trees and hedge
~ will still further remedy this evil.
If The principal cause of partial crol
N failures, is the loose and careless man
J. ncr in which farming is done. Thi
o matter is being remedied year by year
( Men are getting to understand the sol
and climate better every season. The!
il are also getting to understand that
II takes arorE to raise crops,-that they
% win not grow spontaneously, and henc'
they are making better eXertions yea
by year and are rcaping corresponding
benefits.
2 We make the assertion boldly tina
= there is not country in the west wher'
- farmers have received a larger return
;! for the amount of labor performed ant
= capital invested, in the past ten years
- than they have in Kansas.
- We should pay no attention to thu
= above falsehoods, were it not that Their,
; are persons in the east who are not &C
4 quainted with the country, and who de
: not see through the motives of sucl
gentlemen as this correspondent of thu
Democrat, who believe such stories as
:. he writes. A few days ago we receiv
ed a letter from a gentleman in Penn
tsylvania who stated that several faIni
n lies of immigrants had been prevented
from coming to Kansas because som,
!, fellow of the stripe of the Democrat
correspondent had told them that sub
. stance resembling dough had fallen OF
the grass in this country and killed thu
cattle off by thousands. Thousands
of the people east seem ready to believe
u amy story i'll regard to this country, and
: therefore, we make a practice OF deny
e ing all such yarns, which are the sheer
I est nonsense Of a nonsensical brain, and
l are only laughed at here In Kansas
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