The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
THE SUCCESS OF SOUTHERN KAN
SAS AS A STOCK BREED
ING CENTER.

To the Editor Of the Eagle
That Southern Kansas. with Sedgwicl
county a center, is destined to become a
famous locality for breeding fine horses,
is apparent to every one who is familiar
with the soil and climate, ard with the
horse breeding interests in this region.
Its reputation is already rapidly extend
ing over the entire country. In the is
sue of Wallace's Monthly for April, 1898,
Il correspondent under the heading
"Tales of the Turf makes the follow
ing statement in regard to the value Of
that region for horse breeding purposes:
''If you want to be an agriculturist,
go west. If you want to raise cattle. 60
west. If you want to breed trotting
horses, 60 west. 1t is the shiftless peo-
pie who find fault with the Billiards
beyond the Mississippi. 1t is
lack of ambition which keeps many a
man from cutting the weeds by the road
side and selling his place alta good profit.
The man who pushes has no time to
tarry with a neighbor who came into
this world with tired feeling, and dies
cussng his fate-drinking skim milk al
his life with expectations of butter be-
yond the clouds. An Eastern man can
not afford TO breed trotterS with the
Westerner. He can't compete with him,
no matter how extravagantly he may
spent his money for their comfort, be-
cause the climate is against him. Nou
might with equal consistency endeavor
to supplant the central states of South
America in raising bananas in New
York. In Southern Kansas, where
Henry c.. Jewetts 5000 acre ranch is
located, the horses are turned out TO
grass nearly every day in the year, the
past cold winter having been no excep-
ton. In early portions of the
year the mares and wee small
colts Craze upon green wheat fields, in
spring time upon rich pastures of alfalfa
grass, and late in the fall upon wheat
again. 1t was my good fortune to be at
the farm on Washington's birthday of
the present year. The gang plows were
at work, and, excepting seventeen days,
according to the daily record, had been
all winter. The horses We're feasting
upon newly sprouted wheat, and bask
ing IN the warm sun rays OF February
natures medicine. Over 200 acres of
land were ready Tor the oat drill, and
right here stop a moment. The rich
loan crumbled up like powder when
plowed, so that narrowing is unneces-
sary. 1t is simply pillow and drill in the
seed, and your work is over until harry
est time. There is no stampede during
the month of April to get your blowing
done, you can work twelve months in
year, instead of five.
The Jewett farm is Il miles IN circum.
ferance, forming a peninsula, around
which the crystalline waters of the Mn
nescah flow in its downward course
from the mountains of Colorado to the
Arkansas, thence 10 the mother of
waters, the Mississippi. Il is pictur-
esque spot. From the main office in the
center Of the farm, YOU can see the
sprightly village of Cheney, five miles
away, but which looks TO be only short
walk, because the air is So pure that dis
lance is deceiving. The climate Is about
the same as at Richmond. Va. Il is the
garden spot of Kansas, and once away
the visistor yearns to go back again.
Hay can be cut and stacked for 81 per
ION. oats for . cents per buShel, and
the regular price for keeping brood
mares is only $40 per year, to say moth
ing Of the natural advantages gained.
1t Ia money in mans pocket to breed
colts even if you hare 10 ship them and
RETURN III Kansas in preference
to our cold climate. This is
Mr.. Jeweti's present custom with
all of his horses for breeding purposes.
And put pin in here: Nobody will dis
pute the fact that the farm near Buffalo
Is one of the best equipped establish
rents on the face of tie globe l. is
simply wonderful place, and no per
son can appreciate is magnitude with
out a personal visit. Yet every genuine
cainpaigner that Mr.. Jewett has raised
without 4 single exception. and the roll
of honor now stands fifty -eight-has first
seen the light of day IN southern Kansas.
You can speculate and ;heorize Is much
as you like, but one sentence tells the
the story-man cannot compete with
nature. The farm AT Jewettvilia. with
its great covered track, Is known as the
training department, aud The Kansas
ranch as the breeding farm. At the
latter place are tile premier horses.
Patchen Wilkes, Bonnie Boy, Jerome
Eddy, Sherman, Erie Wilkes. with dams
and speed-producing brood mares by the
score. At Jewettville their sons and
daughters are being prepared for battles
down the honeshetch OF 1898, which
viii add new Iuster 10 the fame OF one