San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-06-28
. r.,sas Nine Months DrOuth.

Kansas Nine hohths' Drouth'
@. Aiken thus writes from
s.u.nkln county, Kansas:
l I''a, K,ps.. Farmer
''. awe have had dry time of it
vi. y" from the 1st of last August
paf nth The 10Th of May to soak the
an and. We will have no wheat to
SaL of, most all plowed under.
a RSsr have been injured good deal.
y y''snt where they were cultivated on
n In" ground, they are looking well.
Sa,n Is very uneven. l have corn
SvlI was planted the 5th of April,
' u there is some of it coming up
' 'pI Some are re-planting, but the
!x,s"nd is generally fair. Fine growing
~sather now. Frost on the 23d
INST, doing some damage on low
aound."
Here is an accurate and reliable
,scom Of q nine months drouth in
i 1 much-vaunted and Dragged of
scricultural and stock-raising State
i Kansas, and that, too, at a time
when unusually heavy rains were
hlGng throughout the rest OF the
country, and particularly in Texas.
We had one or two rains every week
last summer in Texas, a great deal
ALI during the winter and an abund-
snce has fallen so far this spring and
summer. And yet, abroad the very
reverse is the reputation of the two
States. Texas is published and be-
Geved abroad to be a drouthy country
naturally. which it's every citizen
Knows is not true, which it's every
farmer will qualify is no more the
case than in any other State Of the
Union.
We deem it but justice to immi-
grants TO know these facts. Long
wears ago there is said to have been
some ground for this opinion of
Texas. But since we have taken
enough iron and steel from under the
earth to build six til ousand five hun
dred miles of railway, and to con-
struct eight thousand miles of tele-
graph; since we have plowed the
earth and built homes, towns and
cities, and inaugurated a thousand
other things to support population
Of two million of people,; since all
these things have come to pass, there
has been no lack of rains, in season
and out. 1t is a well-known fact
iron and steel will attract electricity.
It is well-known fact electricity
and vapor constitute the chief ele-
ments Of our rain clouds. It is a
weI-known fact that any commotion
Of an unusual nature, such as q bat
tie Of a hundred thousand men, will
bring rain in a few hours. If this is
the case, will not two million people,
with their rushing railway trains,
their factories and shops, their anvils
and plows, telegraph and telephone
poles, create, in the aggregate, as
much commotion as a hundred thou
sand while discharging their firearms
a few hours?
Whether you accept this as true or
not is immaterial, so far as we are
concerned. You must admit we
have not failed in years and years to
make as good crops in Texas as have
been made anywhere. Official statis-
tics plainly show this. Last year
the bulletins of the Department of
Agriculture issued from headquarters
IN Washington placed the production
OF grain per acre in Texas at the
head of the list of States. While
entertaining no very friendly feeling
toward us, it was obliged to admit
our corn, oats, potatoes, and so on
were better than those of Indiana
and Illinois.
The truth about Texas, though
long suppressed, will yet be univer-
sally known.-Dallas Planter and
Farmer.