The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-03

pect to raise next year, when they will
be smiling at the ten porary discourage
ments of this.
No state produces good crops of
everything every year, but Kansas
comes as near doing so as any of thems
and is in better condition in her occa-
sional poor years than many others are
when they consider themselves reveling
in an unparalleled prosperity
FROM MR. BONEBRAKE.
P. I. Bonebrake, president of the
your question as to the outlook for
Kansas, allow me to say i have just
returned from a flying visit to Colo
rado, the trans Mississippi convention
It Cripple Creek, and other points. l
met men from almost every part of the
country; from Alaska to Florida, and
from Maine to Mexico, and from every
locality 1 hear that this has been an
xtraordinary season. The trans
Mississippi states have suffered most.
however. In the physical point of view
Kansas has not suffered as they have
in the east. / have a letter this n orn-
ing from very prominent man. now
in New York. and he says that people
were killed by the heat in that city. at
the rate of one thousand per week. and
that the weather was simply horrible
Neither are we alone in a shortage of
crops. Last year Dakota and the upper
country had no crops of consequence.
For three years California had no rain.
These things come to all the states at
knowledge, a party who had tSvo thou
sand acres Of choice land in the Miami
valley. did not raise enough to pay
taxes and insurance, so Kansas need
not be pointed out as an isolated suf-
ferer. The only reason Kansas is men
toned so often in the markets is be-
cause it is the granary and the meat
producer of the country. In the Chi
cago market when rains are reported
abundant in Kansas the price of wheat
and corn goes off a cent or two.
I talked with the mayor from one of
the principal cities of Texas. and he
said their cotton crop would not ex-
ceed a half crop, if it amounted to that
talked with large rice raiser of the
l4afourche country, in Louisiana, and
their crops of sugar and rice will not
exceed a half crop. Kansas has raised
an abundant crop of wheat. which viii
help to bridge over the large loss in the
corn crop.
Now to be specific: I noted the ap-
pearance of crops from Phillipsburg,
Kan, to Kansas City. Until you reach
Clyde, in Cloud county, the corn crop
will be very small. as the rains which
have fallen in the eastern part of the
state have only been showers there, and
as a consequence a very short crop of
corn viii be raised. From Clyde to
Kansas City the value of products will
depend largely upon future rains. The
rains of a week ago have given new
life especially to kaffir corn and Hun
garian- Farmers are ploWing up their
and rye for pasture purposes. If rains
come, live stock will be taken care Of
The southern half OF the state west
of Topeka has been more fortunate
sity will be rough feed-fodder and
hay. 1t is too late to make a hay crop,
even if rains do come, and we must ex-
pect to pay high price for that pro-
duct
Kansas has gone through fire and
flood and war and grasshoppers and
come out all right, and will come out
all right this time The farmers have
more money now than they have had
since we were a state; and as much
money per capita as any state in the
Union, and with their money and their
abundant crop of wheat they will come
out all right in the end
GRIMES TALKS OF WESTERN
KANSAS
State Treasurer Grimes: Some
friends of mine were in frorn nv home
county Wichita Just this morning.
They said the pastures have not been
much of shade better in the past
fourteen years. They stood up under
the drOuth beyond all expectation.
They have been sharing in the recent
good rains and have a most hopeful
outlook In the western part of the
state things are much brighter tt ere
Will be some corn and forage. The out
look is that the farmers can hold their
cattle and weather an ordinary winter.
If they have some more rain, so much
the better There is N money in the
banks to loan the stOckmen to help out
with their feeding, and I think that the
worst of the blow is past now that we
have letup in the weather.
WHAT Mr. GODARD SAYS
Attorney General GODDARD: Western
Kansas has a good grass crop and has
received much benefit from recent rains,
as I am informed. The wheat belt IS
all right Eastern Kansas will be short
on corn. but there viii be a good
amount of forage vet grown or fodder
shipped in SO that the farmers can hold
their cattle. Kansas is so resourcefuI
compared with other agricultural
states, that she will recover from the
effects of the drouth just passed and
come out on top yet.
WILL HOLD CATTLE, SAYS COLE
State Auditor Cole. There will be
any amount of .'roughness" furnished
for the cattle The stockmen are fore
warned. and that means fOrearmed.
Ihey VIII hold on to their cattle There
IS no use of disposing of them at the
enormous sacrifice suggested by the
scare. There is lots of money in the
state Business is good, and 1t will be
good The recuperative power of the
state is at a point such as it has never
known before
NOT WISE TO SHIP FEEDERS.
Representative C.. f. Biddle. of Cold
water: I have been waiting. waiting
and wanting to hear from my county
Comanche. Seems as if we have heard
from everywhere else but there. hope
and trust that we must have got some
Of the rains. They got them all around
us. cannot see that it is wise to ship
large consignments of feeders out TO
that part of the country at present.
however. The buffalo grass was all
dried up before it had got its growth
and nourishment. But with emergency
rates to ship in corn and feed I think
that the rest of the season viii be all
right
FROM Mr.. MACFERRAN.
William Macferran. president state
Savings bank. / have just returned from
a vacation and find the situation much
better thar erracfhd rHhax tell me hay