The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-10
THE CROP CONDITION.
Never Has the Arkansas Valley Had Such
Actual and Pro speetive Results.


est and most unfortunate citizen in the
land. A good harvest means everything
for humanity for it is a guaranty of bread
and bread is the staff Of life. A poor bar
vest is the opposite. What the harvest
will be in other places does not concern
this local community only TO the extent Of
its effect on local productions. In this
item it is only intended to show what the
harvest will be. Southern Kansas is now
in the midst of the wheat harvest and il
would not be unreasonable to say
that there is no man living who has
seen finer yield in the Arkansas valley.
A trip through the country is nothing
more nor less than vision of beauty to
the patriotic Kansan. Every turn of his
eye causes his heart TO swell with emotion
as he is greeted everywhere with field af.
ter field of golden wheat standing up in
shocks, monuments, il were. to the
bounteous generosity of our Arkansas
Valley soil Nature was, indeed, in a
happy mood when she made all of Kansas,
but she had reached the climax of happi-
ness when she formed that golden vale
which follows the current of the great Ar
kansas. If there is a finer spot, in all re-
spects, under the sun no one can prove it.
The people of Wichita have not the proper
conception of the blessings of their sur
they should 90 out and get
acquainted with them and return homo
stronger than ever in the be.
lief that the Peerless Princess
must inevitably become the grandest city
in the commonwealth. Nature has NOT
only been generous this year in this valley
but she has absolutely been extravagent
in her productions. There is not a farmer
in Sedgwick county but what would be ex-
tremely thankful for from eighteen to
twenty bushels of wheat to the acre: he
has now not only realized his greatest
hopes in that line, but is assured of forty
per cent more. 1t may seem to some who
have not been out into the country that
twenty-five bushels to the acre is a little
steep as an estimate, but they will be con-
WINGED of its accuracy if they will
go and see for themselves. A reporter for
the EAGLE has been interviewing farmers
during the past week Oh this subject and
the results ascertained are SO fattering
that it is really unsafe to offer them To the
of the average citizen who does
not know the virtues of this valley. Now,
for instance, there is one reputable farmer
in this county who claims that he has a
piece of wheat that will thresh out fifty
bushels to the acre. Very few will believe
this, but it is an absolute fact neverthe-
less. OF course his land, from artificial
causes, is much richer than the average
land of the valley, and very few instances
Of this enormous yield can be found.
The EAGLE reporter has met many far
mers who positively stated, and did so in
a manner worthy of credence, that their
wheat will thresh out from thirty five to
forty-two bushels TO the acre, while no
one was found who claimed to
have piece of wheat that has
yielded less than sixteen bushels. Taking
it all in all an average yield of twenty-five
bushels to the acre is an estimate that no
one ascertaining the condition of the crop
could willingly so under. 1t is probable
hat this county alone will produce this
year not less than 100000 bushels of this
cereal alone. The wheat is not only fine
Is to amount, but it is fine as to quality as
we'll. Mr.. Pat Healy, who is probably as
yell posted with reference to the quality
If wheat as any other man in the county,
'ays that he has never seen the time that
he quality of berry was better than this
year. What is true of Sedgwick county is
llso true of the other three of the big four,
SUMNER Cowley and Reno Farmers from
sumner county say that the yield in that
this year will exceed
wen the yield of last year, both
u point of quality and quantity.
last year Sumner county produced about
l. 600, 600 bushels, while the probability is
hat it will not fall very far short OF
Zoo, 900 this year. Gentlemen competent
o speak on the subject intelligently say
hat the four counties named will produce
nearly if not quite 13,000,000 bushels of
wheat this year. And none of these three
is more than twenty miles from
Wichita, which must necessarily feel, to d
marked extent, the effects of their pros
)erity.
The oats crop is also very fine and al
hough the acreage in this county this year
S not as large as it was last, it is expected
hat the yield will be fully as much. A
Gentleman who has farmed for over forty
ears in two or three of the best agrcul-
ural states in the Union told an EAGLE
eporter last Tuesday coming from the fair
rounds that certain piece of oats, down
n the suburbs of the city, at the foot of
Water street, was as fine, if not finer than
lie has ever seen anywhere within or out
ide the borders of Kansas. This gentle
nan has travelled probably over half of
'edgwck county during the past two
weeks and he says that he has never seen "A
ner yield, and probable yield OF grain,
uring his forty years experience, observa-
ion and travels. The corn crop is in
plendid condition Notwithstanding the
spring. It's growth is simply
phenomenal aud is the admiration of ali
Who pass through this section of the
tate. No one can hardly realize the
pendid condition the crop IS in unless he
as recently travelled over other states and
ertain parts Of even this state. The
roudest boast of Illinois is her
blity to raise corn and still n
Wichita man travelling through |
hat state at this time would
onsider her Saraha compared with the
Arkansas valley, judging from the condi-
ion of her corn crop. Speaking OF Hi |
ois, it is a very noticeable fact that there |
re more wealthy and substantial farmers |
oming fIom that state to the Arkansas |
alley now, by great odds, than ever be- |
ore, and during the coming year the i'm /.
Migration will be largely increased Two |
the wealthiest farmers in central Hi
DIS have located in this valley recently, |
nd hundreds will follow them. These |
re Mr.. Burwell of this city. who came |
rom Gibson City, and ex- Seuator Henry |