The Globe-republican., 1894-01-26

human family eat beef and pork there
never viii be.
"Who are the most prosperous farm
es In Kansas or In the Union to-day!
Our Southern brother, who cultivatea
the sugar and cotton plantations? Do
you find them among the worn out stone
bedecked fields of New England? Do
you find them in the great wheat and
corn belt of the West and North: No;
but you do find them away out over the
plains of Western Kansas, along the
fertile valley of the Arkansas and other
valleys of creeks and rivers, and out up
on the irrigated high land. There you
will find, this year of hard times and
s:ringency and financial disaster, this
year of unusual drouth through the
West, the most successful and indepen-
dent farmers, the cultivator of alfalfa
and raiser of cattle and hogs. The future
of these combined is certainly flattering
and alluring, and will give Western Kan
sas financial standing she deserves.
Farmers of our section outside of
what may properly be called Alfalfa
land have no reason to be discouraged.
This season has proved what l
claimed in my paper last year, that
the year you cannot cut two crops on the
highlands your other crops will be fail
ure. Such was the case. Your other crops
were in part failure, but the Alfalfa on
fields that am acquainted with was cut
once on some, others twice where it was
not pastured off, and through the fall
there was fine grazing. The result was so
satisfactory that there is not a farmer
who can raise the money in our county
who is not going to try few acres
again. l say be not discouraged, for
there is yet another field of profit open
to you that the farmers along the valley
do not possess. You have the summer
and winter grazing lands at your doors,
that stretch far away on either side; it
is for you to raise the steers to sell to
your brothers in the valley who have the
alfalfa to feed in place of corn, for it is a
settled fact that an alfalfa fed bunch of
steers brings very near the same price of
corn fed cattle ut half the cost. So my
advice to you gentlemen upon the high
land, fence your feed and grain crops,
devote more of your attention to stock
raising, and raise good stock, hold on to
your increase as long as possible, do not
sch your steer calves in the fall, they all
most double in value every year up to
three-year old. Nowhere in this country
can you raise good steer SO cheaply
and safely as upon the buffalo grass, and
when you are ready to sell, you will find
the alfalfa men ready to pay good prices
for your stock. Ihave but little more to
say, as do not want to weary you with
too much wisdom. My convictions are
that the new and added prosperity that
is coming to us is coming to stay upon
the high as we'll as low lands. On the
former will be seen heards of grazing
cattle, homes of prosperous farmers and
stock men; on the lower lands, few
years from now, along the Arkansas val
ley as far East and West as the eye can
reach, will be a continuation of bright
green and blooming fields of alfalfa.
A delight to all who behold, profit and
independence to whom they belong.
'These beautiful fields of sweet purple
blooming alfalfa; they are still becken-
ing to you and to me; they are full of
hope, of promise and of success, and are
the great light that is shedding its halo
of assured aud continued prosperity
over that part of the state you have
viewed with mistrust and suspicion.
s'The tide has ebbed very low, but it
is now flooding, and is coming in to
those who have staid by it through good
and evil report, with glorious fruitiOn.
The tide is rising higher, overlapping
the sandbars and rocks of suspicion, for
the truth is mighty and shall prevail.
And now the tide is at its full and the
waters are spreading out away from the
banks over the meadows, and so this |
alfalfa tide of success that has been
coming to us has been rising and spread
ing out of its banks and surroundings. |
The truth is going out to the people,
that way out on the sun kissed prairie of
the west, among the true pioneers of the
plains, are to be found the autocrats of
this grand agricultural empire of the
West-tbe masters of the situation"
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