The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-06-20

| Ssdue 10 our people WQetner t0ey are,
or are not is the question which Congress
has determined To solve. II canal or river
navigation can he opened land that it can
be have no doubt to US by the Arkansas,
the Usage, the Kansas or the Missouri, the
interest involved will justify the expendi-
ture Of the money required to receive it,
and there is,little room to doubt that Con-
gress will foster the enterprise, II found Ia
be practicable
IL these schemes are practicable, and
aye prosecuted to q successful issue, Kun
sas must inevitably become one OF the fore
most manufacturing States, as well rs the
greatest Of the agricultural States. The
banks OF these streams will be dotted with
manufactures Of almost every variety and
degree OF magnitude. Pouring mills, with
capacity to manufacture daily nom twenty
barrels to one thousand barrels Of -four.
will spring up. Immense distilleries will
be operated, with equal, II not greater
profit than anywhere else; and extensive
starch factories will be built for the manu-
facture ~ our corn product. It Is not i'm
probable that We shall produce, this year,
n hundred and fifty million bushels VI com,
and within the next five years we are not
unlikely tn reach production u three
hundred millions tn four hundred millions
Of bushels. The consumption II this at
home, by manufactures, stock feeding,
etc. will not only be found very profitable
but almost necessity.
The millions Of hides shipped annually
through and from the State will be manu-
featured into leather, in mammoth estab-
fishmentS. The extensive manufacture Of
boots and shoes will follow. Wooden mills
will bein operation. with capacity to manu-
facture the immense wool product Il our
own State, and 81 that vast wool produc-
ing section west and southwest II US. We
are already, AS you are aware, operating
prOfltably some small wooden MILLS. but
with the facilities have mentioned know
Of no better field In this country for the
profitable prosecution Of this enterprise on
the most extensive scale. We shall then
manufacture our own wagons, carriages
and furniture, not only, but also to supply
| the heavy trade west and southwest Of US
because the material requisite will be &C.
cessible to US ut rates that will enable US
to compete with the manufactures East II
the Mississippi.
For the same reason We shall he able u
manufacture our own barrels for our mills,
| distilleries. packing houses. vinegar factO-
| ries, butter, etc, etc. But / will not en-
large upon the subject. The man who
| lives In Kansas five years hence, will enjoy
the transportation facilities have referred
to and witness an activity Of manufacture
! ing enterprise which II would be difficult
to make him believe probable.
There are no better water powers needed
| than are now Ia be found i'm Kansas, al
ready referred To In some localities by
Col. Phillips and Mr.. Haskell. In their arti-
cles hereinbefore mentioned, and 10 which
l will add very many Of the counties In
Southwestern Kansas, notably, Reno.
Sedgwick, Cowley,-in fact nearly the
whole Southwest Is very well supplied
with water power. and afford facilities for
profitably operating Touring mills, wooden
mills, starch factories, distilleries, and very
many other manufactures.
l wish to call especial attention to the
disposition Of our immense corn crop.
The fact Is We consume very little Of II
ourselves. We do not distil ii. nor manu.
facture it Into starch, nor feed II to stock
to any great extent. 1t has always SEEM
ed tO me most improvident 10 dispose Of
our corn ut from fifteen to twenty-five
cents a bushel to be shipped abroad, when
from fifty cents 10 one dollar a bushel
could be realized by feeding 1t, during the
fall and winter months. to hogs and cattle.
II has always seemed tO me that II our
small farmers would buy uf cattle enough
in the fall Ia consume their surplus com
product, and turn them OF fat in the
spring for good prices, always commanded
by fat stock ut that season Of year. they
would realize such profits as must inevita-
bly, soon enrich them. In this connection
/ quote from a letter which l have Just
received from Hon. Victor Z. PiOlette. one
of the most intelligent. accomplished and
extensive farmers in the State 81 Pennsyl-
ha., Of
the Pennsylvania State Grange. Patrons
Of Husbandry. and whose abilities have
often brought him prominently before the
public for high honOrs. Icing only few
DAYS since among the most prominent
before the Democratic State Convention
for the nomination for Governor. Speak
ing II our products, he says:
The wheat crop will bear transportation
Ia our export markets, and Eastern States
that do not produce this cereal In quantity
To supply their population. The rapid de-
cline in the average yield II wheat In all
the States should admonish farmers In
possession Of a virgin soil, that II h true
economy Ia plant this great staple sparing
ly-never Ia the extent II decreasing the
annual yield. A systematic rotation of
crops is the true mode Of farming. and
should not be departed from.
Corn Is an important grain In wise 10
tation Of crops. The proper disposition u
corn Is its use In rearing and fattening do
mestic animals for market. The farmers
Of Kansas should use all their corn In
rearing and fattening cattle. sheep and
swine. This will market IL n the best
advantage.
Sheep husbandry. It appears IA me.
would lie profitable in Kansas. Wood
would bear transportation to the different
manufacturing cities. and II viii not be
many years before st. Louis and Chicago
will be- manufacturing wooden fairies tO
the ::same extent as Philadelphia and
Boston.
Cattle. horses, hogs and sheep will Con-
sumo Your corn and forage. anil In rearing
and fattening these for markets nj home
and afr,.ad. a true solution 81 yoIr great
industry l. found. The farmers At Kansas
do not consult their true interest In pur-
chasing the enar-. cattle ~ Texas "a fat
ten. They should rear their own. and of
the hest meat producing breeds. which
are the Durham cattle. without doubt.
European countries viii eoatinue custo-
mers for our cattle, swine and finally our
horses. The animals ~ the most profit Ia
farmers ar. those that mature In th. shorf-
est space 30 time. Tn. Durham breed ~
cattle: the Berkshire breed ~ hogs: sheep
that produce the eoms,in9 woods and larry
est weight % meat. are certainly thu AMI
nlals required npon the rich lands Of
Kansas
Tn. P.rcberan tr~~d ~ boFsss make .
cr,ss with our native horss-s. Tar mre val
uaile than any u the trptfing stock that
has engaged the a;t~ntioa u sous- SEC
tons a cur country. to IL manifest
injury
Their. Is not an ors,azixed county In The
Southwest, and doubt II these be oOe In
the whole State. that dos MT odeS -
such a farmer as Victor z. PSolette the