The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-07-14
KANSAS CROP san,ples.

Kansas Crop Samples. (
i About the % of June Mr.. (ieo. A.
Bowlus began gathering samples OF
the growing crops of this county, for
the purpose of sending a few of them
to personal friend Hon. franklin
DundOre. of Philadelphia. The box
was necessarily small one but still
contained sample Of nearly every
thing at that time in condition to
ship. Mr.. D., who is a member of
the stock exchange, upon the arrival
of the consignment had the products
display ed in his Office, and upon the
adjournment of the board, invited
the members to visit his office
and see the wonderful display.
Here we let the reporter of the Phi'a-
delphia EUening Star tell the story,
which he heads 'An Agricultu raj
Fair in Brokers Office" THE
wonderful display of fruits and cereals
made by Kansas at the Centennial ex-
hibition will be long remember by
those who saw it. That the things
exhibited were not grown especially
for an International exhibition has
been proved repeatedly, by the exhi-
billions given since then of the wonder
| full fertility of the soil of that State.
One of the finest exhibitions of what
| the state can do, if not the finest. was
given at the office of f. Dundore &
CO., brokers, 80 South Third street.
The Stock Board closed, and there
fore the brokers had plenty of spare
time on hand to view the exhibition
in Mr.. Dundore's Office. They awaited
themselves of the opportunity SO unan-
imously that when the reporter enter
ed the place he thought he was attend
ing an agricultural fair. Mr.. Geo. A.
Bowius, of lola, Allen county, (Neosho
Valley Kansas, a personal friend of
Mr.. DundJre, sent him by express a
box containing specimens of the cereals
fruits and vegetables that are raised in
that vicinity, and that could be seen
on the farms at the time the box was
expressed, June 90. There were i'm the
box large apples, almost ready for eat
ing, more than ordinary sized crab
apples, onions, some of which would
weigh pound, Lima beans, the pods
of which were fully three inches
long, new potatoes averaging two to a
pound, large luscious black berries,
peaches almost ready for picking,
specimens of fax "a inches i'm height,
oats that had grown 81 inches and
were remarkably heavy, clover as full
of the flower as an egg is of meat, three
feet high: timothy thirty-eight inches
high, wheat as thick, heavy and white |
as seen anywhere and corn seven feet |
high full of ears. Mr.. Bowlus, i'm a |
letter accompanying the box, said that
corn was growing in his section at the |
weather was as good as it had been |
there would be the largest crop ever
gathered in the State. The wheat, |
fax and oats had all been cut, and !
yielded more than the most enthusi-
astic farmer anticipated. The eXhib-
its are certainly very remarkable, and
go to show what the great West can
do.n
The Philadelphia daily Press finan-
cial editor, in the market department
of the paper gives the display the fol-
lowing handsome notice: Franklin
Dundore received sample of the ag-
ricultural products of Kansas on Mon
day, which was calculated to make a
Pennsylvia farmer emigrate to the
prohibition State. 1t comprised corn
stalks yet without sign OF silk or tas-
sci, but still over seven feet in height,
flax about five and oatsrully up to a
mans statue, together with ripe
peaches, big potatoes and apples APP
parently full grown. The cOnsign-
ment came from George A. BOwlus,
general manager of the Neosho Valley
Land Agency, and agents of the Kan.
sas City, Leavenworth and South
western and the Missouri Kansas
and Texas Roads, at lola, Allen
county, who writes: Corn is growing
about four inches day. Wheat pretty
much all cut, and never had a better
, ield; oats and flax likewise. a few
good rains at the right time between
now and the middle of August and we
will show the biggest corn crop ever
raised i'm the State, and we shall have
fruit to give away"
As the Press well says these sam
Piles are well calculated to make a
Pennsylvania farmer emigrate to the
prohibition state Of Kansas, and it
should be the pleasant duty of every
citizen to aid in keeping this boom
Kansas this year will pro-
duce crop that no State in the Union
will equal considering the acreage and
taking everything into consideration.
Some general plan should be lopted
to advertise our county, ana in
no way can il be so thoroughly and
done as to send all over
the eastern states samples of what we
are actually raising.
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