Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1900-06-30
AS expected, A. B. Mcdonald.

AS expected. A, B. Mcdonald,
the Kansas CITY Star correspon-
dant came here last Saturday to
take look at the gleat wheat fields
of Ellis county and how the Rus
SLAMS raise wheat. Dave Taylor
furnished one of his fine teams and
carriage with rubber tire wheels
and he spent the day driving
North and east to Catharine, see
ing that town and people. then
east and south to Herzog, an ele-
giant dinner at James Behan's, then
to Hays, seeing the Toulon-Mun.
jor wheat sections. In all his
travels thro' OakIahoma and south
and middle Kansas. he never before
saw such fields of wheat, nothing
but wheat.
And in Tuesday evening STAR
he gives a long write-up of this
county. Here it Is:
The Girls Help an Kansas.
Work in the Harvest Field
Buys Frocks in the Autumn.
Hoa0 $3.50 6 SO q dag IS Earned
by Farm Girls a0ath long
hours Of light a0Orh
Colonies Of Russian aoheat groaoers
Papers had alot to say, sneerin'
like of Kansas
Welt it to 'em every day, chuckin'
fun at kansas.
Air just full O. SANDER darts
From the busy eastern marts-
'Nufft to break the peoples hearts,
Out there in kansas.
Now it's come their time to laugh,
them folks out in kansas,
Givin' fasteners the gaff,
about affairs in kansas.
Barns bulgin' out with wheat,
Enough for all the world to eat,
Cattle and hogs that can't be beat,
out there in kansas.
Trains haulin' out the stuff
from the plains of kansas.
Railroads cant get cars enough
for to empty kansas.
'Ort to see the farmers grin,
Stroke the whiskers on their chin,
As the cash comes rollin' in,
out there in kansas.
Women singin' songs of glee,
bout OF fruitful kansas.
Babies CROWN merriIy
everywhere in kansas,
Purity gals a buyin' clothes
Hear that piano, how it goes,
Style! You betyour life she goes,
out there III kansas.
Hays City, Kansas. June %.
1t will take nearly all the men. wO
men, men boys and girls of Ellis
county to harvest the 147, 900 acres
of wheat that Is ripening- In this
county there IS little of anything
except wheat grown. Most Of the
farmers have their entire acreage
IN wheat and TO harvest it the wife
and children of farmers 90 into the
fields and work with the men. Is
eff the young women Of Hays will
90 into the harvest fields. They
Will carr from 81, so to 81 day
and many a young woman viii
appear IN church this fall with 4
new dress that was bought with
money earned driving Il header
box. Most of the wheat here is
harvested with headers, a machine
pushed ahead of 4 holses. that cuts
a 10 foot sWath. chipping the wheat
half way up the stalk and carrying
into a header box, which is a sort
of rick on a wagon that Is driven
so that the wheat carrier dumps
the wheat from the machine into
the box, Several be adler boxes 70
low each machine and, as fast as
one IS filled, it is driven to the
stack and an empty one takes It's
place; women and children drive
the boxes while the harvesters dis
tribute the cut wheat evenly in ii.
This is not hard work but 1t is
warm work and the honrs are long
There are several thousand Rus
sian farmers IN Ellis county; came
here % years ago from Russia &c
escape drafting into the military
service and to have freedom of re
hgious worship: are devout Cath
olIcs; the land they came from was
fine for wheat farming; settled on
the open pararie and went IN tor
wheat growing and have stuck TO II
and own from 100 to 640 acres
each; are ont of debt and are 0uy
ing up all the adjoining land they
can get, paying as much as $50 an
acre tor wild, unbroken prairie
land: have no farmhouses but live
IN communities In tn,rn