The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-20
STANDS UP FOR, KANSAS.

The Secretary of the State Board OF Agri-
culture Strikes Back at the Traducers OF
the Sunfiower State-Wasted Eastern
Sympathy.
patch from Topeka headed: "Hoof
Disease in Kansas" and ask me what
| there is in it,
THE state veterinary surgeon has
been called to Burlingame. in Usage
county, to investigate a strange disease
which has broken out amoag the cat
tie of that section. The disease starts
in the hoof of the animal creating irri-
tation. The entire leg soon becomes
affected. The animal goes frantic,
gnawing at the parts continually, and
death results in few days"
l have referred this dispatch to the
state veterinarian, DR. Pritchard,
whose statement to me in writing is as
follows:
81 visited the above mentioned out
break and found the disease originated
in corral, consisting of five acres, in
which were confined 100 head of native
cattle that had been on half feed DUR
ing the winter and but recently placed
On lutl lOuuu thOy iioN@
not had sufficient roughness to counter
balance the baneful influence of an
over-nutritious diet, and this had pro-
duced morbid and depraved appetite,
causing them to eat the refuse of an
old. deca ed straw stack in which hogs
had been allowed to harDor all winter.
The great irritation as noticed in the
skin was a sympathetic affection, pro-
duced by the deranged digestive func-
tions, and there was nothing mysteri-
Gus. contagious or infectious las err
roneously reported) about the disease.
The trouble appeared nowhere except
in this one corral or herd"
This dispatch is simply on par with
innumerabl others of which Kansas
has been the victim, sent out by ire
sponsible correspondents, the demand
and pay for whose productions are
largely gagged in proportion as they
are made startling and sensational.
For some reason unknown to anybody
but themselves this state has from its
settlement been especially the prey of
this class of fakirs-dealers in hyper
! bole, the chief share of whose stock in
trade has been imaginary billiards.,
restitution. reputation, and foot-and-
/ mouth disease in winter, and cyclones,
drought, hot Winds chinch bugs, and
grasshoppers in summer. Political
compilations change, crops are de-
stroyed by drought, towns are blown
away by wind, and live stock perishes
by thousands from cold storms and dis
ease in other states and no special COM
ment is excited and the states do not
suffer in public esteem; but let it fail
/ for a week to rain in Kansas, or let
there be good lively atmospheric dis
/ turbance in summer stiff, driving
snow from the north in winter, or
some man who through mismanage-
ment loses few cattle or horses and
the eastern newspapers scarcely have
enough coarse type to set the scare
heads under which they print the won
derful tales of woe said to describe our
alleged forlorn, God-forgotten condi-
| ton. which cause their readers, not I'M
reasonably, to regard Kansas as chiefly
desert inhabited by cranks-
Now as matter of fact Kansas is
not the sporting ground of either biz
yards or cyclones (the United States
weather observer for Kansas who has
been in the state twenty-seven years.
saws that in that time he has known of
I but one storm that could be called a
| blizzard, and the few ''cylones" W.
have had were only such Tomatoes as
frequently occur in a more destructive
degree in many other states): while the
grasshopper, like the Indian and the
open saloon, is but "reminiscences.
Like every other state in the union
we sometimes have dry seasons, and at
such times the chinch bugs make them
selves the same mo worse) aggressive,
bad-smelling busy bodies here that they
do elsewhere under like circumstances;
as to the states healthfulness the sun
shines upon no region where mankind
or brutekind enjoy greater immunity
from disease or breathe a more whole
some, invigorating atmosphere than
that waited across the 50, 900, 900 fertile
acres known as Kansas
Permit me to say incidentally to your
eaders that they need not waste time
| feeling sorry for Kansas. We are hav.
ing the hard times, as all the world is,
but the condition of our people is one
of opulence and comfort compared with
| that of those in some other states east
| of us where such ills as Kansas is cred
| tied with are supposed to never come.
Last year, disastrous everywhere, was
one of our poorest and we only raised
| and marketed s12o. 900, 900 worth of
L.
| of substantial prosperity ahead. Re-
ports are coming from dozens of coun-
| ties that the millions of acres of winter
wheat never looked better at this time
of the year; that a greater acreage Of
corn than ever before will be planted
and large areas of the ground are al
ready plowed, while live stock is in
| good condition and feed abundant and
the faith of our people are unbounded.
| Further, there has never been a more
1 favorable opportunity to become iden-
| titled with the garden spot of the GEN.
| trail west than is afforded in Kansas
now.
Again, state that in the past five
years has produced 222, 900, 600 bushels
of wheat, 721, O0O, 900 bushels of corn.
ISIS, 000 900 bushels of oats, slaughtered
or sold for slaughter animals worth
SlS9, 000 00O and sold poultry and eggs
worth sl3, 26O. 600, paid off in two years
s25. 600, 900 of mortgage Indebtedness,
and the meanwhile gone on building
schoolhouses. churches and better
homes does not need to be commiser-
ated-she is to be envied.-F. ID. Co.
burn. Secretary State Board of Agri-
culture, in Breeders Gazette.
A Shower of Feathers.
The eminent surgeon Sir Ashley
Cooper was fond of a practical joke.
On one occasion he assembled the church
tower of a village in Norfolk, taking