The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-04-03


their subscription to the local paper,
and are contin ually talking about the
hard times. This is no fancy picture,
but the actual fact of the experience
of hundreds in this county.
Mr.. r. l.. Manley has expressed a
doubt that could show up any such
thing, but he will bear me out that
what he reads in this REGISTER that
he will borrow from his neighbOr,
was an actual fact that came under
his own observation and was the case
of near neighbor. feel as though
cannot fully express myself on this
point. 1t represents so many thous-
ands of dollars to the REGISTER read
ers that beg of them to not pass
over it lightly. Chas. +. Scott fully
understands all this and it is these
valuable facts that causes him to go
to the trouble and expense to secure
the weather report for his readers.
Not single paper in Allen county
except the REGISTER, has thought it
worth while to make this report al
though / have offered it to them.
They either do not care straw for
the farmer that they profess to love 80
we'll, or are stupidity, ignorant of the
benefits to be derived.
For the first time in Allen county
history, apple buyers made a BUSH
ness of buying up the surplus crop
last fall and as result about g train
loads of choice fruit was shipped out
and the ready cash shipped in. Why
was this? 1 visited the buyers and
asked them why they came here and
they all told me that they saw in the
state report that Allen county had
large surplus of choice fruit and
they came here to buy.
Now it would be interesting to
know how many of the REGISTER
readers handled some ready cash
from this same apple crop? I also
asked these men where they sold the
crop and they replied that they al
ways sold where the report showed q
shortage of crop. They regarded the
crop report of the weather bureau as
absolutely correct. Many will re-
member the erroneous reports of our
last corn crop and how these reports
Ant do in ri ht1f xxyhn ho
official report came out L had the
pleasure of reporting Allen county at
80 bushels per acre the great yield
fell to what it really was.
1t matters not what crop we have a
surplus of, if it is made public through
the weather bureau it will be consid-
cred correct and buyers will flock in.
Those who have fruit, vegetables and
broom corn in abundance, and often
wonder why foreign buyers come in
here can now see why.
Why, l would never buy farm in
any community without first finding
out the climatalOgy, then have an an
nalysis of the soil made and by this
L would know whether to buy or not.
Now, we should file away for future
use these papers that contain the
weather report. Last weeks REGIS
TER shows a weekly mean tempera-
ture of about 40 degrees. This weeks
will probably show nearer A degrees.
All wise people know that it is not
profitable to plant in the ground until
this latter is reached and here is the
secret of why some seem to always
have better luck than his neigh Dor.
Pay up you subscription out of that
apple money and watch the July re-
port for the success of the corn crop.
We can get along with a small
amount of rainfall, until July when
we must have over 4 inches to insure
reasonable fair crop. Now with all
these facts before you, that you must
know are really true, can you possib-
ly successfully farm without this
same REGISTER and its weather re-
port.
These Is letters that the REGISTER
has put before its readers at quite an
expense, would make 3 book that
would cost more than the REGISTER
for year. When you meet the edi-
tor tell him truly whether they have
been of any benefit to you or not.
What L have written should be
read many times, in order to fully
comprehend it all, and had we all
understood it as well 20 years ago, as
these papers have described it, it
would have put many dollars in our
pockets.