The Globe-republican., 1889-11-13
FARM AND STOCK ITEMS.


More cattle, some hogs, more hOrees,
mules and sheep is what Western Kansas
farmers want to raise if they desire to
realize the greatest possible profit froni
this industry.
The humane farmer will provide shell
ter for his stock as he would for his fam
lily. To rear stock successfully you must
provide comfortable winter quarters.
While every farmer anxiously supplies
the necessary feed for the wintering OF
his cattle. how many there are who pay
no regard to the sheltering of them
through stormy weather; no one is so
poor but what he can make some suitable
stable wherein to winter his stock in
comfort, and save enough in feed to pay
for such improvement.
With the ground thoroughly saturated
with water at this season of the year, it
ought to encourage our people very much
in their efforts to prepare for the next
harvest. If Western Kansas does not
raise bountiful crop next season, it will
not be because of the lack of fall rain,
which for the month of October was 2.sS
inches. A thorough soaking of the soil
in the fall means a good crop the follow
ing season. This was the case in 1877
when 1892 inches of rain fell in October,
which brought US the bountiful wheat
crop in the western part of the state in
1878. The same in 1888, when October
gave us a rain fall of 1874 inches which
gave us the splendid crop of 1884. Oc-
tober rains is what tells the story.
''This country is just what we will
make it, was the response of a farmer
who was asked what the future outcome
of Western Kansas would be. ssThe soil
is all right as he remarked. '.In fact
there is no other country on earth that
possesses the soil that this country does.
and all that is needed is the thorough
cultivation of the land and the absorp-
ton of the moisture that falls upon it, to
make it one of the most productive re-
gions west of the Mississippi river" The
lack of proper cultivation causes more
failures of crops than any other known
cause. Cultivation means the retention
of the moisture that the good Lord al
lows to decend upon your lands, and
without such cultivation you cannot hope
to retain it. The annual rainfall is an
average of q inches, if this is all absorb
ed into the soil upon which it falls for
period of five or ten years the change in
the productiveness of this section will be
most wonderful. Adding to this the
artificial moisture that will be supplied
by irrigating bitches, by the storage now
for the west, will add much
toward the redemption of a country that
some years ago was represented on our
maps as desert. or barren region,
where it was said nothing could be
raised.
Western Kansas will be a timbered
in twenty-five years from now,
it will possess all the timber that may be
needed for fuel or fencing, just as por-
tons of Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska are
now. which states, when first settled by
the white man had large and extensive
tracts of prairie, upon which not tree
or shrub could be found, which at this
time are covered with. nice groves of
timber and orchards the finest and most
productive known to any western state;
20 it will be in Western Kansas, which
fact can be verified by looking over a
portion of Central Kansas which was no
better timbered when first settled than
this section is now.
Stick to your farm and don't allow
yourself to be euchered out of it at
4 time when it is worth to you more than
it would be to the man that buys up the
mortgage you may have placed upon it,
and when you wanted more money from |
the loan company than you yourself
thought the land was worth, aud perhaps |
had no thought Of ever redeeming it.
The land is worth twice the amount you
ever got from any land company, and
hey know this to be fact, as they have
no fears but that they can get their |
money back: with good interest on the
amount invested, whether you meet your
or not. The average amount
oaned on Western Kansas farms is less |
han 5000 per quarter section of land,
md there is not quarter of land in the
country that will not bring double the
amount, in less than three years, and
whatever you may add to it by cultiva-
ion or improvement, will be just that
much more added to the value of your
and. You cannot afford to fritter it
away or allow it to go into the hands of
and speculator, and 60 elswhere to pur-
chase land, as this is the cheapest and |