The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-08-30
THE CORN CROP OF KANSAS.
Tall Stalks and Big E,ars---A Value of
$1OOyOOO,OOO.
st. Louis GIohe- Democrat.

per0aps tae largest OF any individual
owner in the State.
"We shall grind four times as
much corn meal this year as we did
last, he said. "The consumption
will be increased by this large crop.
Wheat will be higher, in my opinion,
than it has been in several years, ex-
cept for the period when Letters ope-
ratioDs advanced it. The price OF
wheat affects -four. 1 have observed
that whenever -four goes up the use Of
corr meal increases largely"
docs this great crop mean lower
prices for corn?" Mr.. Bowersock was
asked.
"No," he said, II don't think so.
We shall not see ten-cent corn this
year. and don t believe we shall ever
have it again in Kansas. There is a
close relation between prices of wheat
and corn. The former will tend to
hold the latter up. That is always
true. But, more than that, our farm
ers are 40 longer obliged to rush the
corn on the market. They can hold
over large part of the yield, and my
belief is they will"
An Investigation made in one of the
northern central counties Of the State
shows four OUT Of i've farmers abun-
dantly able 60 carry half Of their corn
to another year without borrowing a
dollar.
Mr.. Bowersock and other public
men Of Kansas agree chat the benefits
of the 800, 600, 600 bushels of corn will
be more widely distributed, and that
a greater proportion Of the profits will
remain in first hands then would be
the case with any other source of agri-
cultural wealth. The finest wheat
crops of 1897 and 1898 made the grow
ers in this State independent, but
wheat is raised by only minority of
Kansas farmers. The advance in cat
tie and hogs Of the past three years
has put many millions into the pockets
of the stock men, who constitute an
other minority. Now comes this un-
precedented corn crop, and it seems as
if every farmer in the State has some
of it. Not only that. but commercial
men on the road, lawyers in towns,
the merchants and business men gen.
orally who own ground from an acre
up are telling of the height of stalks
and size Of ears in their particular
patches. B. E. Smith, the pioneer
horticulturist Of Douglas County,
counts this as one Of the most dis
couraging berry seasons he ever knew.
But he put in corn wherever he had
a vacant acre, 'iustto keep the ground
clesn," and says he viii make up as a
farmer some of the profits lost as a
fruit grower,
Not only has every farmer in Kansas
"great corn" this year, but, perhaps,
the proportion which will have to
share profits with landlords is smaller
than in any of the other States. In
quiries made in several counties the
past week showed that less than 5 DER
cent of the cultivated land is owned
by non-residents. This line Of inves.
tigation was pursued in a dozen coun-
ties, with reference especially to the
farms on which the principal crop is
corn. It was demonstrated that most
Of these farms are from eighty to one
hundred and sixty acres, and are
cwned by the men who occupy them.
Here and there is . man who owns
three hundred and twenty or six hun
dred and forty acres and who rents
corn land to the man who prefers to
move often and pay no taxes rather
than become q landholdef, though he
must put two-ffths of the crop he
makes into alandiord's crib.
Eighty acres Of corn to the farmer
seems &c be the rule. One man in the
custom Of che country can and ought
to put in, work and pick that amount
Of corn. Thousands and thousands Of
Kansas farmers have done it this year,
that's, up to the last stage, the pick
ing. With half-grown boys to ride
the cuitivators, some farmers have
more than eighty acres to their credit.
And occasionally farmer with an in
spiration to be the talk of his neigh
borhood has managed singlehanded to
raise moro corn than any other man in
the township. In one locality there
ia q farmer who has made this year
Without help $50 acres Of corn, and it
is mighty knc, too. Tho neighbors
like to tell strangers how he did it,
This man had horses to spare. He
worked them in relays. He rode his
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