The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
PAYS ALL THE TAXES.
Secretary Coburn's Report for
the Quarter Ending March 81.
Shows That the Egg and POul-
try Product of Kansas
Is Sufficient to Pay All State and City
Taxes and Leave a Balance of
$4,000 in Favor of
the Hen.

March 81, 1897, devotes a chapter to
The Helpful Hen of which he says:
While everything else was going to
rack and ruin. she increased and multi
piled; she supported herself and the
family, too. The very insects which
would have despoiled the farm, she fat
tened upon, laying her daily egg-the
blessed egg that took the place of beef
and milk, mutton and portland in
good time, after all these services, sur
rendered her toothsoIne body to the
cause of humanity
This report also contains the proceed
ings and addresses of the Goth annual
meeting of the state board of agricul-
ture in this city in January. OF the hen,
Mr.. Columns report says:
In the year ending March 1, 1896, the
value of Kansas poultry and eggs sold
was So, COS, S15 or 10 per cent more than
the entire value of the rye, barley, buck
wheat, castor beans, cotton, hemp, to-
baccO, broom corn, milo maize, Jerusa-
lem corn. garden and horticultural pro-
ducts marketed, wine, honey, sheep and
wool of the same year. No field crops,
with the exception of wheat, corn and
hay, equaled in value the surplus sold
from the Kansas hens, ducks, turkeys
and geese in the year named.
1T was a sum sufficient to pay all
the state and city taxes of the proceed
ing year and leave on hand the COM
Portable nest egg of S175000. Its value
was nearly twice Cor IS per cent? great
er than the same years output OF lead
and zinc from our mines, conceded to
be of great richness, and within % per
cent of the value of all the coal mined
during the preceding year 1t was Is
per cent greater that the total paid IN
the state for teachers wages and SchOOl
supervision; more than three times as
much as the total combined amounts
paid for school sites, buildings, furnl-
ture, rent. repairs, district library ana
school apparatus, fuel, IncldentalS ana
other school purposes except salaries.
In fact, the poultry came within about
IA per cent of paying the entire cost OF
the public schools.
.sThe average value of poultry and
eggs sold annually in the state, as re-
turned to assessors, in the five years
ending with 1896, was 1888, 562, or a
value greater by nearly 10 per cent
than that of the potato crops for the
same years; SIS per cent greater than
the sorghum crops; Il per cent greater
than the miIlet and hungarian, and 168
per cent greater that the value of kaf1r
corn.
prices of poultry and eggs in 1896
were not high but the years surplus
sold from Kansas farms amounted
to within . per cent of the total value
of all mich cows owned ana IN the
great cattle raising regions OF Colorado
New Mexico. Arizona and utah; more
than the value of all cattle owned IN
Oklahoma with the swine of COLORADO,
Montana. Nevada and Wyoming ADD
ed or about the same as the value OF
states and those Of New York ana
South Carolina added; nearly as nuch
as all the sheep owned in Texas we're
worth; or as much as the NdLue u a.
the corn of New England, with that Oh
North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming
thrown in for good measure,
"a ccording to the United States CEN
e,,s ~ 1870 Kansas then ranked among
s+a4ee and territories as fourth in num-
her Of chickens. fourth in ducks, sew
enth in turkeys, and nineteenth in
geese ~ - so4o,r-
in a well-Ordered husbandry, as lndlca-
ted by the foregoing, there IS apparent
" a notable lack of practical, popular
Information within ready reach on the
subject of farm fowls. Likewise, much
less Of suitable attention is given them
than their economic importance Jusll-
fes. and the great aggregate OF money,
merchandise and substantial comforts
thew bring into the homes OF farmers
and villagers (mainly through the NlSl-
liant care taking by the Soou 4ou
v-ivesl is but poorly comprehended or
aDnreciated by the menfOIkS VINO are 50
largely the benef1clarIes- IL Is from d
desire to remedy this to some extent
aud to awaken a new interest along
these lines that the data here presented
mostly the experience and counsel or
those long and successfully engaged IN
D01IItIv culture-haVe been cOnplled-
.eTt is r70t offered as by any means an
exhaustive treatise or complete guide as
to breeds or management, not IN adNo-
of any paIIlCQ4dL III CCeAr -
promote or retard the use of artlhclal
inclbator nor of any particular make;
not a manual for fanciers, nor planned
for those who raise poultry uhoer con
ditione of climate and market widely
different from those to Kansas; put as
a helpful compendium OF every DAY IN
Formation for every day fowl ralsefs-
for the many women ana occasional
mon who possess the genius of patient
Industry which modestly accomplshes
with small things more OF good than
those who must do lafgeIy OF not a. 81
# is to encourage lettering our condl-
lions bv taking advantage, now, TINS
wear of the opportunities ana ullllzlhS
tba in0rnnera BILE resources that lie all
abo,,+ ne and are ours for the taking,
rather than relying on some far-aWay
financial god, the next political cam
paign or the subsequent congress to
make US sure of prosperity so Often
elusive. to suggest that, while the i'm
portant'' crops may some times fan snort
in yield or price, no FANNY with heaItn
ana A vveIl-cared-for flock of fowls need
want for the necessaries to sustain life
nor seek a home where nature is sup
Dosed to have been more lavish in her
s.Tf Kansas. with her Kafir corn, sorg-
huns. corn. grasses, range, and location
is not prolific of poultry, eggs, milk and
milk products that in prices and quality
can agressively and successfully COM
pete in all good markets with those
from any quarter of the globe, surely
the fault is with her own people
KNUTE NELSON'S THREAT.
viii Hold the Tariff Bill Till Action
on Bankruptcy.
washington, May Ex-senator Knute
Nelson Of Minnesota threatens to hold
the tariff bill in the senate until Speak
er Reed consents to let the house act
on the Nelson bankruptcy bill, passed
by the senate two weeks ago.
THE country needs bankruptcy Iegis-
lation,'' said Senator Nelson. "as badly
as it does legislation on the tariff" If
Senator Nelson holds out the passage of
the Dingley bill may be delayed for
49, hecause Sneaker Reed is firm in