The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-25
NO OLD WHEAT
Is Left Now on the Farmers of
Kansas

There is no old wheat on Kansas farms
now. Nearly all of it that was held over
fall shipments was let go last week when
the market tide washed up over the dol
lar line At Lyons and Sterling, in Rice
county, 81. 900 was paid over for wheat in
a single day. The streets of both towns
were lined with teams moving in turn to
the rows of cars standing ready for the
grain Eleven thousand dollars a day.
This in May when the pinch of the year
for farmers is over and another crop is
about TO be harvested. This while it was
the largest day of the month, was only
one. There were other days when thous-
ands of dollars were paid out in Rice
county and other counties. Kingman,
Harper, Barton, Reno ,Sedgwick and
Sumner counties turned in not less than
10000 bushels Of old wheat and very lit
tie of it was sold for less than S1.O0 per
bUshel. And the new crop is on.
J. c. Waite, a travelling man Of Joplin,
Mo. VINO makes all the towns of south
west Kansas and Oklahoma, said yester-
day:
kansas is at her best Just now. She
never looked better, and her future never
promised more. One glance at the Won
derful wheat fields viii Immediately start
admirers into a train of air castle fgur-
ing
kansas wheat! Acres of it everywhere.
Take any road ride on the cars, go in
wagons, or start across the country on
foot or on horseback and it's the same
thing. There never was so much of it in
acreage before, and r. never promised SO
much in yield. All that the farmer ever
dreamed of-more than the wheat pro-
phets ever prophesied. And the best part
of it is that il is beyond all damage, reck-
oning on Kansas having her usual
weather from now to harvest.
"When the Kansas farmer made his
stake on wheat last year he rushed into
1t again. He planted more OF it So did
his nelghbors. And the wheat is doing its
best at this hour to convince the ullers
OF the soil that no mistake was made when
they hitched their faith to it. And now
You may travel across the state, east
or west, north or south, and the farmers
are all singing the same song
g In this wheat by and by
I'm the big wheat belt comprising the |
bAtNtNo "a NtAibASA4 AN~Nt-2eA 4bAit ADA 81 ~
south, even the Oldest inhabitant cannot |
rake up a story to equal tine present con- |
dition-and they can tell some mighty !
good ones. The prospect in counties like |
Sedgwick, Cowley Sumner, Reno. Butler, |
Mcpherson, Rice and Barton /
cannot be told by the bulletins Of the agri- |
cultural department, any more than the |
yield Of Kansas wheat fields can be esti-
mated by the gamblers on the Chicago /
board of trade. Better SILL, You may 80 |
west 70 the short grass region, where |
wise men have promulgated the declara-
ton that nothing can grow but politicians
and prairie dogs. AMI there YOU viii find
The Kansas wheat this year looking as
fat and sassy as q Kansas steer. From
The time it was planted up 10 the present
hour the weather clerk has been sending
exactly the right thing, and Il he keeps
( up about Two weeks more even the few
popuiists left viii be hard 70 locate.
with the crop now promised, the Kan
;as farmer can afford TO sell his wheat for
eighty cents. ana this viii furnish enough
money to pay of all our debts, build new
louses on every farm and iii the banks
rish money 10 check on when We cele-
7rate the downfall of Spain.
IA the present market price, should
anything hail. hot winds, droutn, cyclone
n tornado. army worm. chinch bug OF
.ald bug-prcvent us realizing more than
,ne-h,4lf Of the present promise from the
immense acreage of wheat Kansas would
.iH have money enough coming from ser
wheat 10 make her people the richest per I