The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-11
HOW TO GET RICH
COLONEL BOB PAINTER ELLIS SOME
THIKG ABOUT FARMING.

Out In Meade County They Don't Eother
Their Heads About Grain but Go KjShf
Along Raising Something that the Bulls
and Bears Cannot JuggIe with-Aifalfa.
Cane and Mil0-Maize is the stuff that
They .Iatsc the Soil Yield in abundance
lie Thinks All Western Kansas Farm
ers Must Come TO Meade County Scheme
Colonel Bob Painter of Meade county
was in the city yesterday and is still
here attending the United States court.
Mr.. Painter is the representative OF
his county in the legislature and is a
man os more than ordinary practical
knowledge about the affairs of his
state. He was at the Carey hotel re-
clining in a big arm chair digesting
mighty good supper and hence in splen-
did hunor when reporter for the
Eagle met him.
mo / am not here on legal business"
he said. - am here simply as a wit
ness"
DO you think there will be an extra
session of the legislature?"
Il do not. My opinion is that there
will be no extra session and l am glad
Of it,
why"
"Why. Simply because 1 believe that
if there is a re-apportionment of the
state Will be made and Us out west
coyotes Will get the worst of it. The
fellows in the eastern part of the state
are hoggish and would make an ap-
portionnent in their own interest and
10 our injury. In this matter we can
afford 10 wait"
.'Ho are times in western Kansas?
"All 0. K. You can tell the good peo-
pie on my authority that since pre-hls-
toric days Meade county has never had
such abundant crops. We are pros
porous and happy and we don't care
VINO knows it,
What is your best crop, corn"
mo. In Meade county we don't both
err very much with corn, wheat or oats.
We raise other crops"
what kind Of crops?"
"Oh, cane, milo maize. alfalfa and
kindred crops. We do not propose to
indulge in the pastiine Of raising crops
that we are not absolutely certain
about. When We put in crop we are
sure Of yield
You will do well If prices are good,
won't your
we don't care about what the prices
of our crops are. We don't raise them
for market. You won't catch the good
people of Meade county monkeying
with crcos that the boards OF trade
can manipulate When we raise crops
we know where TO put them in ad-
vance"
How is that?"
1--WE feed our crops into our cattle on
our farms. Cattle feeding, our people
have long since learned, is their saliva
ton. If anybody makes anything it
will be our own people. Eevery farm
er in our county has a bunch of stock
and If they have surplus OF feed they
can sell il to the ranchmen or feed it 10
their cattle on contract. Where is the
use in selling products to outside spec
uiators when you can utilize 1t at home.
We don't propose to do it. / tell you
right now that the salvation of west
ern Kansas farmers is 10 raise feed and
put il into stock"
Can YOU raise the crops YOU men,
ton with less moisture than is required
for grain?''
That is the point exactly OF course
we canno. raise them under continual
torrid heat, but with a little moisture
we can raise Good yield. We have
always enough rain in western Kansas
to produce abundant yields of the
crops mentioned. Our crop of alfalfa
this year is the finest ] have ever seen
in Kansas or anywhere else. / should
have said crops, for we can raise three
crops on the same ground. If | told
you wha. we could do in the produce
ton Of alfalfa you would not believe
me. Then, again, our vegetables are
very fine. I guess you are aware that
we have fine artisan water in our coun-
ty sufficient for irrigation. We have
great many irrigated patches ana we
raise the finest vegetables your eyes
ever rested upon. And as fer fruits.
there is no end to them. We have
great many fine orchards and are put
ting in more every year. We have
peaches in our county that you could
hardly believe could be raised in Kan
sas''
with the conditions that you name
immigration ought II be good
We'll. as to that, l VIII say that
while we are always glad to see good
people moving into our county there is
no effort being made. or inclined to be
made. to get boom 10. We have
good thing and we know ii. We have
caught on To the right system and so
far IS know We have enough people.
It is better to have small number of
people, al prosperous, than TO have
large number or people in Indifferent
circumstances II IS not a question of
how large cur population is but how
y.aarn