The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1875-06-17
From Ottawa County.

NINNEAPoLIs, KANSAS, June lVth, 1919.
EDIroR JOURNAL: Since our county
uapcr has ceased to be even "a try-week-
~" that isto come out one week ana Try
10 come ont the next, something from
Ottawa county may be OF interest 10 your
numerous readers. 1t may not be gen
orally known, but it is nevertheless
fact that our county paper has gone INTO
law and consequently stopped ITS Issue
For about two weeks &. 3. Rotrock
and III. Ii. Tucker, are the contesting
parties over its ownership.
Our crop prospects never looked bet
ter. Every acre OF plowcd land has been
pnt into cultivation, and better farmed
than ever before. The grasshoppers
have about all disappeared from around
here, without doing any material dam
age.
The indications now are that Ottawa
county will have at least this year, lOV,
900 bushels Of wheat Of Il surplus, be
sides good crops of rye, oats barley ana
corn. Where is Frank Goodnow, Lynde
and the other grain dealers OF Saline,
1t is most time they were around. Our
town is steadily improving and our
merchants have had an excellent Spying
trade. have inst been examining the
Kansas agricultural reporter 1914, ana
while il is n nice gotten up WORK ana
shows well tor Kansas generally, 1t Ger
tainlv from its own statistics does Cen
trail Kansas great injustice. You VIII
see by examining the map OF SAID report
! that il divides the State into three DIS
( ,ricts and attempts 10 show MP the agrI-
cultural worth Of each. All east OF iihe
running north and south from Junction
, Citv oon,prisos tho eastern belt FROM
( that line 10 i line running north ana
south from the west line Of Ellis county
/ is the middle belt. ali west of that hno
/ is the western belt It publishes to the
/ world as an immigration document the
/ following: "Thc eastern belt VIII admit
of most diversified grams and grasses,
and is most admirably adapted to stock
raising. The middle belt is well adapted
to stock raising. Spring wheat VIII
stand about an even chance with It's
winter rival" Now by the statistical
rcports YOU will see that Mr.. Gray l.
either wrong in deductions or has made
a false report Take the Counties OF
Atchison. Doniphan, Leavenworthi
Shawnee, Franklin, Bourbon and Chero
kce. as good counties Is are IN the cas-
tern belt, and they report fail wheat PEI
acre as follows: Atthi>on I02bu per acre
D0niphan IS BIZ; Lcavcnworih -
Shawnee IL; Franklin 10; Bourbon II
and Cherokee Is, making an average N
these counties of about II! bushels Pei
iacre. Take the same crop ~ The coun
ties of Clay, Dickinson, Saline, h''is
Phillips, Marion and Reno, and they re
mort IS follows: Clay IS; Dickinson -
Saline Is; Ellis -; Reno -; Marion -,
, Phillips II; making an average for these
, seven counties of i bushels t
the acre. In the first mentioned coun
ties spring wheat average buSheiS t(
, the acre, and the last mentioned IL
, bushels to the acre. Rye in the frs
seven average Is bushels and the last i
hushels TO the acre. Corn being des
troved last year by the grasshoppcrS IL
The middle belt as have the crops I'M
sprinr in the eastern belt, we make M
comparison of it, OF course IN thos
seven rich eastern counties farming J
done in much better manner than !
is in these rural counties, lately the HON
5 of the Indian, the coyote and the buffalo
: Then it must be that Mr.. Gray lnteren
ces are wrong ard next year VIC hop
he will make them right. Enough 10
once. Yours in haste. SETTLER.