The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-03
KANSAS is 0. K.
Crop Failure Scare Is Now En-
tireIy Over
Rains Came in Time to Give
Relief.
is PLENTY OF FEED.
Farmers Will Not Have to Sell
Cattle.
Governor Stanley Says the Con-
ditIOns Are Favorable.
BANKERS JUBILANT.
John r. Mulvane Says Calamity
Times Are Passed.
P. i. Bonebrake Gives Result of
His Observations.
Farmers Will Not Have to Sell
Cattle.
Governor Stanley Says the Con-
ditfons Are Favorable.
BANKERS JUBILANT.
John r. Mulvane Says Calamity
Times Are Passed.
P. /. Bonebrake Gives Result of
His Observations.

Kansas is all right. The little furry
caused by brief period of drouth has
passed. Farmers now realize that crop
conditions are not so bad as they
thought and Kansas corn is showing
its recuperative powers and as a result
there will be corn in Kansas sufficient
to furnish all the feed required People
who rushed their stock to market now
realize that they acted hastily
Following are some opinions about
the situation furnished the State Jour
nal by men who know:
FROM GOVERNOR STANLEY
Governor w. f. Stanley: The rains
were much needed and viii do some
good. They came too late to do much
for the corn although there will be
quite a sprinkling of corn in portions
of the state if the season is favorable
from now on. The greatest benefit Will
come in the help to pastures and forage
plants. Corn win make good fodder all
over the state. A great deal of millet
cane and sorghum win be sown and
with favorable weather through Aug
ust and September. these may make
fair crops. The pastures will be very
much improved.
The real benefit viii be to the stock
interests and not to the corn crop
which was practically past help. The
weather is cooler. people are feeling
much better and are now getting ready
Ell III, n
sowing a large acreage of wheat. If the
rains are continued so that plenty of
forage crops can be raised to carry our
herds through the winter without de-
pletiOn, the recent rains win be Of IL
most incalulable benefit.
FROM JOHN R. MULVANE-
John R. Mulvane. president of the
Bank Of Topeka. The Kansas situation
of the year 1901 shows up very faVOra-
bly, as compared with the bad years of
the era from 80 to 81 In those years
we had several short crops and all the
time low prices. We had the silver
craze" to our sorrow and detriment.
The armies Of the "Coxeyites' and 9TH
er humbugs and hODoes, and ever pres
ent with US was the political shyster
and dema gOgue. who. by their perVer-
sion of facts destroyed our credit. at
tacking our characters with the state
ment that We We're financially and NOR
GA-t AAALE0s DOAA dS lnulNlQQdlS ana
municipalities. AS compared to the
years mentioned, our debts are at the
lowest minimum; the credit of the state
is at the maximum and the nation on q
per cent basis Of interest, being the
best the world has ever seen.
Our farms are better improved: we
have painted our houses and barns:
planted orchards; got our rubber-tired
buggies and paid for them, and still We
nave seventy millions on deposit in our
banks.
Our mining interests and railroa 1 in
terests are better developed than thev
have ever been and on a sOunder basis.
We have the largest and finest crop OF
wheat ever raised in the state win
perhaps thirty million bushels OF ain
corn in the crib. and we hope for a
quarter crop of new corn. We shah
preserve our fodder. sow several nil
slion acres of wheat and rye for .Dasf1,r-
age and six million acres for the on
OF 1902 thus carrying over our sroni-
cattle and hogs and horses and .-e
nope another year viii give us. as on
similar occasions. a good croD ana No
expect before the u months is past to
forget the little shortage of 195 ~ IA
million bushels of corn out of tha croD
year of 1901 We are graduallv ,75,-a,t
slfying our agricultural interests M
depending solely upon one crop on
happy. @''u
FROM Mr.. COBURN
f- - Coburn, secretary of the sto+.
board of agriculture: Being eDS-i,.o,.e 1s., a :
oy Nebraska, Oklahoma and Rrisso,,,.;
where distressing dryness ana beaf =
nave been prevalent for many vraal-s -
IS entirely natural that Kansas ebr,,ts
Pc more or less affected IN tbe ~
nuences which have worked such vs-i,,a
spread disaster to the crops of -
neighbors. Results are thai in -.
parts of the state grass in bofb -
lures ana meadows has been ee,-e,.e1-. 49,
shortened, much of the erov-frsr ;. l.s.l- ~
injured past all hope of recovarS s,l "A 4
the nerves Of the tfnid ana tan5s,.fel-.t slllIl
set jarring. seiieerAo Aoo5 {
People of the latter class have ha..
busy for month shipping trei, 49,, Sssii
ture live stock to glutted markets l.s "a (.
telling newspaper people how Es,.sl... rl.u
mas gone TO the dogs. Another cias--
1Ae stayers-the men who transroyr,a7 y
Kansas from buffalo range into ~
greatest wheat garden the sun .t-as -
Kissed into fruitfulness. and the -
oi a larger percentage Of comfort -
population than is found elsewhere +,,5N
side or paradise-they have baan a-5
are hustilng to conserve as hesf +ba~-
may the. stock they have been for 1,ee, -
grading up, and are working in -
Vulnerable ways to prepare for ffs VI
fering- They are sowing rye T,-baa+
miilet, sorghum, COW peas. tlIrnfr,S S,.i
Whatever promises to make feed. 49,
are studying the values and combina.