Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-03-06

sustain The assertion.
To this NAV be answered that the
most accurate figures 1t has been pos
sible to make show that IN 1851 we
paoduced 48 ,000,0 bushels of wheat
more than twice as much as that
wonderful wheat land, Dakota, and
4 900 600 bushels more than either of
its highest competitors, California and
Ohio, as their figures are given III the
U. 5. Reports.
Do YOU ask If corn grows on those
wind-swept prairies!
Yes, coru grows there; but the Of
fetal report says "the conditions dur
ing the spring (sSD for corn planting
and the cultivation of the ground
were exceedingly uufavora5le, owing
TO continued rains in nearly all por-
lions of the state" and 1.-THE general
average of the state suffered severely
Owing TO the drawbacks the crop av-
eraged but ~ bushels per acre on our
4.545 ,90S acres; hence, the years crop
was but l90.00o,000 buseelS; as much.
however, as the product of all New
England. of New York, Arkansas.
Kentucky and Texas combined.
! Thirty of the counties raised from
| ). 100000 to $500. 900 bushelf each.
With this, even though much of ii
Should be las Kentucky friend says
wasted TO make bread of, we hope To
have reasonable supply for seed the,
ensuing spring. Only three other
states-Iowa, lliinois aud Missouri
have as much.
Our oat crop was only exceeded by
that of seven states, and the last year
harvest Welded 29,000,000 bushels;
four counties raised more than l,OOO,-
900 bushel, each, the yield in some in
stances being 20 TO rs bushels per acre.
and The general average for the state
was 81 IA bushels.
Do you ask if we raise buckwheat
cakes? To that we rise
up and say yea, verify; we
last year produced $4,000 bushels of
the triangular berries from which they
are evolved, and as proper condiments
to 90 with them made Z, 800 900 gallons
of soryham molasses, and 100000
pounds of butter AS ajjuncts TO the
| buckwheat cakes we took pains TO
store away 100000 bushels Of Irish
potatoes. That the good housewives
might be well armed with their favor
! lite weapons, some 80 ,000, 600 pounds OF
| broom corn were grown, and nearly
| 6 .O0O. 900 pounds in the one small coun-
tv of Allen, 2lx23 miles square.
Does fruit grown in that wilderness
of prairie!
Those of us who live there think it
dues, and ITS quality and character re-
ceived endorsement high over all al
the Centennial exposition of 1876. The
state last year had 3 800, 900 bearing
apple trees, and upwards OF 100000
planted that were yet too young 10
year. OF bearing peach trees the
count showed 100000, and three
fourths as many more planted. Cherry
trees numbered 100000 and of pear
trees there were third as many
To serve as protectors OF these
orchards, to relieve the monotony
of the prairie scene, to afford CRATE
full shade and provide timber for fut-
needs, there had been planted 10000
acres of artificial forest.
Have tame grasses been introduced
or their production found practicable
there?
We think so. The cop harvested
last season was approximately 650.OoO
tons of timothy, clover and other
tame grasses, frem an area of 100000
acres. besides 100000 tons of milet
and Hungarian from 100000 acres III
cultivation. TO supplement this there
were put mp more than 100000 tons
of prairie or wild hay.
To consume some of the grain and
grass of which | have told you, we
lake pride in our / ,S50,000 cattle, in
GLIDING many herds of the choicest inn
proved breeds: in our $4,000 horses
aud mules Q may say, parentheticallv.
that it must take lofty patriotism
and the closest Of family ties TO make
man proud of u mule); in our ,250.-
600 sheep, that last year produced
500, 900 pounds of wool: and III our
swine, which number about 2,000,000
head. the peers of any in any land.
FROM these few statements il may
TO some extent be seen what we have
done towards supplying bodily wants,
and you will naturally query If any at
teption has been paid TO other subjects
than the production of wheat and
corn and sorghum and swine!
Yes, we have established schools,
aud in town and country alike the
tasteful temple of learning is the first
and most notable structure that at
tracts the travellers eye. OF these
there are $500 dotting the hillside and
plaip, worth with their surroundings,
Sc 900 900, and endowed by the gov
eminent with The sixteenth and thirty
sixth sections of Land in each cOngre--
sional township, making when fully
available, fund OF $l3,0OO,OOO. In
these schools are enrolled close 10
4OO. 900 children, under the guidance
of 8. 500 teachers, 10 whom in 1888 was
paid upwards of 81 100000.
Nor is The higher professional and
industrial training neglected. The
Agricultural college at Manhattan,
with an endowment of $500, 600 safely |
invested in the best securities with
buildings worth 100000, on n
270-acre farm, herds of thorough
bred stock, II professors, and 400
Young men and women to whom tul- |
ton is absolutely free, staGds the peer |
of any, and a magnificent monument
TO the statesmen and the people who |
have made its kind possible. The
State University in lis nineteenth year
numbers near 600 students aud ~ pro-
fessOrs, and is noted far and wide for |
its efficiency A State Normal school.
with a splendid endowment, is main
tanned for the free preparation of men
and women for the profession OF
teaching in the common schools, and |
lis diploma is a life-certificate for
teaching. Besides these, nearly every |
religious denomination maintains
college or seminary of its own of no /
small magnitude.
Are there churches or missionaries /
in that far country!
State statistics show the existence of
about $500 church organiza-
tions, and church edifices numbering
200. valued at near So 100000, and
from these each Sabbath ascend pray
ers and thanksgiving TO the Giver OF
all Good-Him who doeth all things
we'll
Thus. gentlemen of the association
and visitors, have hastily and
roughly sketched some OF
the more salient features of
a region erstwhile counted desert
plain, but now the chosen home of .
prosperous, hardy, brave and gener-
Gus people. have moi even called al.
tention 20 its almost h-lffen thousand
miles of railroads; It's packing houses,
some of the most extensive ever con-
strlctcd; its second largest stock yards
and stock market in the world; its ex-
haustless beds OF coal, varying from
20 to so inches in thickness; its nus
merous quarries Of superb building
stone: its profitable mines of lead and
zinc: its salt springs; its immense gyp- ,