Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-01-02
KANSAS CORN.

From Dunton s Spirit of the Turf
There are but few of all the American
people who have the least conception of the
resources of Kansas. Take the single pro-
duct of corn, for example. Who can tell us
how much of train OF cars it would take
to carry the corn crop Of 1884 to New York
city! have not computed it, but one who
has, informs me that if all the corn was
loaded and put upon a railway train and
transported across the country, when the
engine reached New York the caboose
would be the other side of the Rocky Noun
tains, beyond Denver. Kansas corn crops
are simply enormous; and this is one grand
reason why Kansas is such a pros
porous state. Kansas has undoubtedly
won the first place among the corn
growing states of America. 1t is an
undoubted fact that Kansas has this year
raised 100000 bushels more merchan:a-
BILE corn than any other state. And, as corn
is king, Kansas is the king of the corn-
growing states. If, then, corn
Is king, wheat may be said to
be queen, and Kansas is moving her king
and queen upon the great chess-board Of
the Union, and is rapidly check-mating all
that moves against her. If Jacob were
alive to-day, he would undoubtedly send his
children to Kansas to buy corn. Therefore,
there is no doubt about the advantages of
Kansas as stock-growing state. Moreover
the grasses of Kansas are not surpassed by
any of the western states, so it is no: sur
prising that she raises more horses than
Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois or Wisconsin.
Kansas has always been stock
country. Even before civilization
drove the Indian and buffalo from its vast
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these great prairies in countless herds and
bands, since which the cattle interest has be-
come phenomenal. But, better than all, the
New Englander and European have settled
upon these fertile acres aud cut much of
this country into small farms of few hun
dred acres, and industry, intelligence and
wealth grow apace. No longer state with
merely possible greatness, it has already
distinction and an enviable posi-
ton among the foremost farming and graz
ing states of the great west. And vet, in
view Of the great harvest Of 1884, and the
crops of the past few years,
men can be found who emgrate to the lands
Of starvation, having never heard an in
telligent and truthful report of Kansas.
When the first governor WAS inaugurated
here, it was not known that apples could
grow in Kansas. Fifteen years later Kansas
fruit won the first place at the centennial
Orchards and vineyards flourish here. Kan
;as lies between the 37th and the 10th
parallels Of latitude, district that is said to
control the destinies of the globe the world
parallel that has been the thread
upon which jewels Of wealth, plenty, luxury
md refinement have been hung from time
mmemorial. The 37th parallel is the girdle |
which the genii of civilization have spun
lround the sphere. Along it lie great cities.
Kansas is right in the very path of this pros
,erity. With as fertile soil as lies out of |
loors, and with a salubrious climate, it is
therefore, fit abode for successful men.
This wandering representative of Dunton's
spirit of the Turf cannot find words to fitly |
portray one-half of the advantages of this
delightful belt of Gods universe, and must
therefore, surrender the task to some unborn |
ype of humanity.