The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-05
PLANT TIMBER TREES.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle
Within the past two years strenuous
efforts have been made by numerous
Kansas towns to create an immigration
boom. The splurge OF SO and 81 inflated
the financial bladder of all acute and
chronic spectators to the utmost abnor-
NAL conditions; and the inevitable Sc
quence of so much mushroom growth
could not result otherwise than in a sud-
den collapse; a general blow down
among the cripples. Amid the rubbish
and ruin of that wide spread disaster.
al recent efforts to revive the boom by
encouraging immigration have most sig
nally failed to materialize.
Neither is it right to protrude on the
rights of those who are quietly enjoying
comfortable homes in other localities.
| Proffered advice, unsolicited, smacks
little too much of the guzzling shark.
Booms, when carried out on legitimate
| business lines and integrity. invariably
result in much good to the neighborhood
or community at large. Now, the fact
is patent to al! in town and country that
we are in need. very great need too, o a
1
urated among ourselves and carried on
by ourselves for an indefinite period
Heretofore many Of the early pioneers
have planted ii nbar groves quite liberal
ly, yet it is a glaring fact that nine-tenths
of US have done comparatively nothing
IN planting timber trees; this is the most
important need of southwestern Kansas:
nothing could Conduce more to our
general prosperity. Every farmer should
make it a cardinal rule TO plant groves
of timber on the farm.
We also should give more attention to
better cultivation and in other WAYS i'm
proving our farms, and less to sonorous
mugwumpism. We have been travelling
too fast after Injuries, voting bonds to
help fraudulent corporations and through
cupidity, gullibility and stupidity taken
at a gulp the sophisticated sentiment
that by helping others would rift US into
channels of golden prosperity-vain de-
lusion-The God of the universe helps
those who help themselves.
II would be well TO take backward
glance, review the past fifteen years of
farming. consider the propriety Of
changing 10 better methods in the man
aeement OF Our farms; that more
IudlcsouS system should be adopted can
not be questioned. In the past we have
been growing too many sunfowers,
cuckleburrs and crabgrass, not rotating
crops in proper way to secure the best
results, and grossly neglecting to restore
to the soil some nourishment TO compen-
safe for what had been taken off In order
to secure more uniform results il will /
be absolutely necessary 10 change our
tactics materially by blowing deeper.
sowing and planting earlier and keeping
up the fertility OF the soil 70 the highest
standard; then we shall have inaugu-
rated a boom Of lasting vitality. \ more
Judicious and liberal system OF forestry
pisnting-an advanced step: improved
methods in cultivation. and rotation in
crops; an advanced step. determination !
10 VIII. and never sell on deprecated ,
market. an advanced step; these three |
practically combined and we shall have
q grand and perpetual boom. Then and |
not TIL then will capital and rlanufac- /
tories come 10 us of their own volition. |
d. w. BEoCKwAY.