The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-23
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER COTTON
Keats Wheat, and Kansas Can Grow II,
Saws the Sage OF Okla oma City.

Oklahoma Cit, o. T., Sept. 22.-(Spe-
cial.)-The staple is coming in freely,
and picking by boys and girls Of school
age, and by the octagenarian of African
descent, and Of Caucasian lineage is the
order If the day, many rising at
| o'clock in the morning and hurry
scurrying in the cotton field, and pick
ing the fluffy stuff till too dark to see
the white bunch under the green leaves.
| The price paid therefor is cents per
| pound, but il will be ID cents If not
| higher. The late dry spell had cut ii
| short TO an extent.
There are some fields which will make
| a bale per acre, $50 10 AS pounds 10 the
| bale, but such fields are the exception.
The writer saw such a field. The cotton
| Vas three and a half feet TO four feet
| high. on fine rich land. planted early.
! The drouth of the latter part OF July and
! August had no effect on it. Then, j;
I had been carefully cultivated. not a
! weed in it. making picking easy. Why
50 many cotton raisers plant late and
! only half cultivate is one Of the pro-
| found problems.
This is September %, and the bolls are
! open on the plant, ready for picking,
about half way up the stalk, and on
early planted still higher up the stalk.
| Now, il the strip counties can success
| fully grow the staple. why not the south
ern counties OF Kansas? The Eagle is
| correct. Cotton can be raised in south
ern Kansas, and it will pay. Ten acres
say. average 800 pounds per acre, total
! 5000 pounds. at cents. $l20 Ten acres
| OF wheat, 200 bushels. SO cents pei
bushel, $3.50; but how much less expense
| on wheat, and risk. and how much less
expense and risk on cotton One sample
case will Illustrate this cotton question
| A fact Is worth a ten-acrs field OF
| theories Some miles cas-: or our city ar
| old ex-slave secured a black jack claim
! II WAS somewhat rough and hence nc
opposition. II. has jim Crow team OF
| mules. and rhe family number seven
! husband. wife and FIVE children. He
will have twenty bales OF cotton, and
I besides corn. hogs, melon patch. swee
, potatoes. chickens. garden stuff, etc
/ Here We have twenty bales u 45f
pounds Zach. 1900 pounds. total. at
cents Der pound. $3.50. veri.able fort
une ana ali the work done by me fam
ily. This man could no. handle vines;
he could no; AFFORD 70 buy seed and ge
the amount y acreage prepared by hit
sim team. but in cotton he found th'
means OF realizing in seasons croi
ssso. Verify cotton IS the poor man!
friend.
For seven hundred dollars .ais ma
can buy the claim st1iDing ais. Is there
! a land. a COUNTY. where poor mar
has an equal chance Ike above? i
some o.. our scaronie croAsers. by son'
Aocus-pocus c5a!i see TIE most fsvo-et
portions of England. Scotland Itelan-
and continental Europe, and then re-
urn = ne United States. Presto. VIA
a chsrgs / do believe me crcas. 80
fsul;-fndIng. re eternal jans.e q send
inx everything % me "isnnetio1 bow
vows" would cease and tae tune NS1-t
charge . Han America, happy ana,
etc
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ms supreme question
WILLIAM ?. WOLFE