The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-23
WILL GOD SEND 1T
THAT Is THE PRAYER OF THE KAN
SAS FARNER TODAY.
What will be the Result of Plenty OF Rain
and Hot Weather for the Next Three
Weeks--The Biggest Corn Crop Ever
known--Does Nature Limit the Supply
of Grain--The Farmer has Done His
Part and Watches the Clouds and the
Wind--Be Patriotic and Endure the
Heat-Crops i'm Fine Condition.

Heat-Crops in Fine Condition.
The next twenty days from today will
decide the fate of the corn crop in
southern Kansas and Oklahoma.
Whether it will be the greatest crop
ever raised in the state as conditions
now seem to indicate, or half crop, or
a nearly total failure will be decided in
the next hree weeks.
When a sportsman fires at the game
he drops his gun from his shoulder and
looks for results. When the fisherman
draws his net to the shore he looks
with interest to see whether his net is
filled with the finest fish or whether he
has caught a batch of snappers or other
worthless inhabitants of the fresh wa
ter stream.
Ihese are interesting times for the
sportmen and the fisherman but not
more so than the present time TO the
southern Kansas and Oklahoma farmer
They have plowed and planted and cul-
tiVated and waged a successful war
fare against the noxious weeds which
seem TO grow and thrive for no earthly
purpose but to make sure the edict that
man shall earn his bread in the meat of
his face
All over southern Kansas and Okla
homa today are vast sections of waving
corn 1t is sea Of dark green which so
abundantly indicates that the rich
stalks are filed TO bursting with the
sap that will make the rich yellow and
white corn.
VIII these conditions which now
seem so favorable give to the Kansas
and Oklahoma farmer an abundant
corn crop. That is the question the
nc Ia s.aH, l.
sections named are now waiting in
breathless anxiety to hear answered
For the next three weeks the farmers
Will watch the clouds and the course of
the winds. When the wind switches
TO the northeast and he sees the mack
erei scales and the mares tail his spirits
viii rise and in his dreams at night he
will Sc visions of bursting corn cribs
and thick back hogs and round fat
cattle
Then on the other hand when the
wind comes from the far southwest
and blows hot upon his face; when he
locks over his fields of corn and sees
the blades that but yesterday were
spread TO catch the sunshine like great
dark green ribbons now beginning to
roll up like cigars his hopes sink but
he does not despair because that pecu-
liar brassyness in the sky that indl-
Gates drouth is absent and he remem-
bers that warm winds that seem TO
suck up every particle Of moisture fire.
quently proceeds a downpour of rain
What then does the farmer want?
He wants q see the corn tassels that
is now beginning to show up in the
green fields like white birds floating
on the surface of a lake maintainits
silky glOSsiness The tassel seems TO .
be mere ornament but the farmer /
knows that the tassel is the corn bloom !
md Iii,
there VIII he no grains of corn on the |
rob. Hence for the next three weeks /
the farmer viii watch the tassel on his |
CORN.
The in a few days the shoot which |
Is the miniature ear of corn that is just |
beginning to peep out between the blade
and the stalk viii push out and begin to
make an ear of corn Then the farmer
wants more rain because the sap in the I
stalk will flow into the maturing ear |
and the flow of sap must be kept up.
The ear Of corn viii form and grow |
but if for want of sufficient moisture |
the flow Of sap in the stalk is cut short |
the grains of corn will be short and |
when he huSkS his corn the farmer will |
take hold of either end of the ear of |
corn and twist IL back with faith. 1t !
twists easily and the cob seems too |
big for the number Of grains on it. Then |
the farmer says his corn is chaffy. 1t !
is not good but that is the kind of corn
he will have if he does not get more
rain. If he gets more rain that ear of |
corn VIII feel like a stick of wood when
the farmer tries to twist the cob. The
grains of corn on the cob Will be wedg-
ed tightly and that will be perfect corn.
There are plenty of people who be-
lieve that nature limits the supply Of
food and that the time will never come
when golden wheat and corn Will rot
and stink in the earth unless people
starve that ii may rot. If that theory
Is correct something viii happen in the
next three weeks to prevent the over
production of corn in southern Kansas
and Oklahoma that now seems almost
certainty.
The hotter the wea Their the sooner
the corn natures and the more rain
in the next three weeks the better the
corn VIII be. That IS provided there is
not a deluge. If Kansas and Oklahoma
for the next twenty-one days has abun-
dant rains and the weather so hot
that people viii hunt for shade in the
day time and roll and kick at night /
because of the smelling heat We viii
have the biggest corn crop ever seen |
in any country. Then hunt a shady
place in the day time and fan yourself |
at night and endure il for the good of
the country if we have heat and rain
for the next hree weeks.
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