Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-04

II. v. dlQcKI0y OI Topeka spoke Oh
''what we didn't know. and what the
government can do for u.s." Some of
his remarks were in a conservative |
strain, and liable to be discOuraging. |
He said the underflow was neither |
mysterious nor inexhaustible, and that |
it depended entirely on the rainfall. |
Some of the speakers that followed him
said that the people that came after us
one or two hundred years could hustle |
for themselveS-that WE would not
exhaHst the underflow- Mr.. HinckIey
said the only way the government can
assist us is, through experiments, TO
give us light on three questions: sub
irrigation, evaporation and the storing
of storm waters. Referring to the
water test he said that 800 gallons per
minute, "a hours in a day for 120 days
would irrigate $50 acres.
j. H. Churchill, one of the alfalfa
kings of Ford county, made an enter
tanning speech. He opened by paying
fine tribute to Judge Emery and E.
r. Moses for their work. He related
his success in alfalfa raising, showing
the crop to be very profitable, and. as
he asserted, drOuth-k killer. He also
advocated fish pond on every farm;
in a happy strain, he showed that this
was the best means on earth Ito drive
dull care away" which was subscribed
to by an old gentleman on the front
| seat.
| Secretary of Agriculture, +. D. CO.
burn made a few lifting remarks, clos
| ing W ith the Injunction tQ''investigate,
cultivate. saturate."
D. M. Frost Of Garden City told of
| his wonderful irrigating plant in Fin
ney county, and of his magnificent
crops this year, and reiterated the plea
for individual irrigation. He said that
! inaSmuch as Uncle Sam had taken
$50, 600, 900 from the people of western
| Kansas for lands which he unWlttingly
represented to be farm lands, he should
return at least part of that amount
for making a geological survey for the
benefit of his coniding customers.
| Ira Hubbell of Kansas City made
| few caustic remarks on the subject,
which were pertinent to the occasion.
| He said that we ought to be ashamed
of ourselves for bringing potatoes from
| Colorado, and hoped that on September
29th, 1895, we could say we had not
done that. but sent those fellows across
the line some good ones.
A. w. Stupbs of Garden City, editor
of the Irrigation Champion, also added
some enthusiastic remarks TO the pro-
gram. He gave an instance of one
alfalfa field that netted $50 per acre.
! He took a decided exception to Mr..
Hinkley's statement that Mr.. Hoislng-
tons scheme wouldn't irrigate 20, 900
acres. He advised the farmers not to
give up the scheme; even if they did ir-'
rigate 10000 acres the result would be
| sim ply marvellous.
State Treasurer Biddle was called for
and dropped few encouraging sug-
gestions.
G. IL. Fairlyer of Manhattan, pro-
fessor of chemistry in the State Agri-
cultural College, also made short
| speech.
After vote of thanks to all who
had contributed to the success of the
day, the meeting adjourned.
Among others present from abroad
were: E. B. Cowgirl of Topeka, Mr..
Lewis, editor of the Kinsley Graphic,
Phil S. Creager, representing the To-
peka Capital, E. II. Frizell of Larn ed,
who exhibited pump of his own in
vention, Mr.. Shaw of Kinsley, who
exhibited the model of an irr1gatlng
pump of his own, Labor Commissioner
Holcomb of Topeka, and Benz. w.
Ladd, representing the Hutchinson
Commercial Club.
An exhibition of beets, onions, pep
pers and apples, raised on irrigated
land in Deception valley, on the desk in
front, talked as convincingly as any of
the speakers.
The band didn't get full represen-
tation out to the test, but those who
did go, livened the occasion as much as
the wind mot that of the boys but the
other one) would permit. A fine con-
cert was given at the close of the after
noon meeting.
The next meeting of the State Irrl-
cation Association will be held at
Hutchinson November 23rd and 9th,
and the next Interstate meeting at
Kansas City November 9th and 10th.
Another test of the water supply was
made Monday. The pump was run Al
hours, and threw into the reservoir
135, 900 gallons of water, without 6im-
inishing the supply in the well.
The irrigation band wagon is filing
up fast; get in as soon as you can-to
stay out means occasional crops and
haphazard living. Lend your individ-
nal aid, Immediately and heartily. The
street corner sage will tell you that this
mouth irrigation won't work" Ger
tainly it won't as long as you leave it
in the mouth stage.
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