Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-22

was pleading Tor Sneep because they are
neglected and abused of late and that,
too. in the best sheep state in the union,
Texas, better adapted to sheep than any
thing else. A farmer in Texas plants a
hedge to protect his crops from foreign
herds. OF course the rows next TO the
hedge are taxed to support the hedge.
You could not condemn the hedge on
that account, because it protects all the
rest of the field. The hedge is but our
tariff laws. We are not free common
erS.
There is still another advantage to be
gained in sheep culture. There is land
in every state just adapted for sheep
culture. Even the county of Butler ad
joining us on the east was made for a
sheep pasture, and good one, too.
There is enough of similar land In
America to furnish us wool to clothe US
in winter and enough hedges to clothe
us in summer. What is England, France
and Germany, the leading countries of
the old world, doing today? Ransacking
the rest of the old world to grow the
crops we grow. to be independent of u.s.
We are compelled to be independent of
them. Then let us see to our agricul-
ture.
A fiockmaster from Butler told me
yesterday that Kansas had the best eli
mate under the sun to grow healthy
sheep and the best of wool. We have a
grade of sheep here called Kansas Amer
lean Merinos, which are not excelled
anywhere, and on examining one of his
focks today / was convinced of the truth
of the assertion. They Craze on the flint
hills of Butler in summer and clean our
cornfields in winter. When we convert
our corn fields into sorghum they can
eat cane leaves and beet tops in the val
ley of the Walnut at home in Butler
county.
So certain are the prospects for an in
creased duty on wool that the staple has
advanced cents pound on wool and
sheep 90 cents each in the last three
months. This is but the silver lining of
the breaking clouds on the dawn of
glorious day that is coming to bless us
with peace and prosperity. Maiden
Kansas, coming in her gorgeous sun
shine, dressed in golden fleece, and on
her head silk hat decked with ribbons,
red, white and blue, and in her right
hand a cornucopia OVERLOOKING with
sugar, and in the other portmonie full
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American gold, silver and nickeis.
My little boy wants to know where
Kansas got so much money, and l will
have to tell him she is going to grow all
the sheep she can, all the sugar she can,
even if she has to beat the world grow
ing sugar beets, and grow all the silk she
can. Then after feeding and clothing
herself she will have surplus to sell for
and she will not haYe to go out
of America to get it, either, Is not that
plain? Certainly. know how you are
gong to grow SO much silk by taking
your eggs over to the ice factory, and
taking away part at time in the
spring. You will feed them until they
spin, then get some more, and SO on all
summer. But where did you get all the
sugar? What has become of the mo-
lasses? l will try to explain that
There Is the growing cane
a small per cent of new, green, crude
sap which is sour, and if left long
enough there converts all the sugar into
a sour mass and the time and method
spent in extracting the sugar by the
diffusion process converts portion of
the sugar INTO syrup by ascetic fermen-
tation. If you will cut up the cane into
thin slices and subject it Immediately
to dry hot. air by evaporation you re-
move the moisture and destroy the
ascetic fermentation, then barrel or bale
your product to extract out the sugar at
your leisure, which can be done by
steaming and extracting the sugar when
it can be classified. A bill is beforefthe
house now, hope, for the purpose of
trying this experiment.
H. E. .BIDwELL.