The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-02
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III. M. MURDOCH. Editor.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT KANSAS.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT KANSAS.
The ignorance of some eastern newspapers concerning
material conditions pathetic The ignorance
IS so marked it is in the middle east
In New York for instance the newspapers have general
idea that Notwithstanding the drought in forty
years the what they call middling prosperous
The Ohio Indiana Michigan papers, the contrary,
are aboring under deluson west and
tally Kansas starving condition. They have
heard that the crop of the state comparative
failure and for some they the idea that
corn fails the Sunhower famine threatens.
In Kansas Of course all this is amusing The time
when general corn failure in Kansas depress
ing disaster and it evident that the people Of Indiana
Ohio Michigan have the Kansas of the past instead Of
the Kansas Of present brains. They do not
realize that the evolution of time Kansas has
become wheat state-the greatest wheat state in the
Union both in the quality and quantity Of the yield
The drouth of July is only remembrance in
Kansas and the pity our eastern friends for
joke The value Of the corn in Kansas on the first of Sep
probably greater than would have
the season been most favorable There probably
much old corn the cribs Kansas on that full
average crop either of the sympathetic states mentioned
would amount to and with this doubled there
no real reason why our mddeeastern friends should
so much concerned about our ability the winter
months And it must be remembered that this years crop
was by no means total failure With the possible excep
ton Ohio it is improbable that the limited crop
raised Kansas this year in excess of good average
crop those states With the present price for corn in
Kansas it is not all unlikely that the value in dollars
cents of the hand greater than the value
two prosperous average crops in Indiana three full
crops Michigan truth it the east and not the west
that entitled sympathy of the comparative
failure year It's people have to pay
six cents pound more for its Kansas beef and pork
on the block and from five to eight dollars ton more for
its hay And the extra burden them does not
there only logical assume that had the corn
crop good they would paying from cents
less for their -four for indirectly the shortage
material influence on the tendency Of wheat towards
higher values individual cases the failure of the corn
crop Kansas-where farmers old corn raised
will be felt but taking the state at
large about well off as the corn crop had
been good average all the corn producing regions
The lOoOOOooo bushels of wheat raised by Kansas this
year reinforcing the profits made from the quarter of
billion bushels raised the three or four previous years
enabled Kansas people look at the drouth
past rather philosophical standpoint And
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state argue that what our friends in Indiana and Mich
ean consider disaster is nothing than valuable
suggestion Kansas farmers diversity crops as
have equal results in cash every year. what
Kansas farmer is aiming for and he whether
he gets for pork made out of alfalfa wheat
The raising of for the market his purpose
is the raising of for the hog the steer and
he make just good hog steer out of kar corn
alfalfa his dominant purpose is served just as sasfac
orily is not what he put in the crib that the
is troubled about it is what he put the
bank and the eastern newspaper men will read few
chapters from Mr. Morton Abaughs report the cond
ton of the state banks Of Kansas Mr. Comptroller
Dawes report the national banks Of the state they will
that Kansas has front elevation present to the
wolf Of winter that few states in the Union have
Kansas viii attend divine services on next Christmas
day with better Shoes stockings overshoes underwear
pants vests frocks shirts collars muers hats than
fifteen hundred thousand people under the sun
their tables viii be turkeys and accessories per 1000
population than in any state the Union.