The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-14
AT The CAPITAL.
Gossip About Kansans at the
Capital City.
Secretary Wilson Tells Con-
gresham Curtis That
HE NEVER SAID 1T.
Denying He Classed Kansas as
Sc An Arid State"
Improved Methods Noted in
Peach Culture.

Charles Curtis, of Topeka, is In the city
and was a caller at the White House
to make an appointment to see the
president.
Mr.. Curtis says that the people of the
west are greatly concerned in the pass
age of some law that deals severely
with anarchists. They believe that con-
gress can do som ething and thar 1t VIII
do something, he said. Mr.. Curtis says
that the people of Kansas regret that
the court of inquiry was ever held.
They believe that such a court could
have been avoided, and that it would be
best even now to dismiss the whole at
fair The Kansas congressman called
at the postoffice department in the in
terest of having free rural delivery eS-
tablished in his district.
Lieutenant Jack" Murphy, of Leav-
enworth, recently appointed to the reg
ular army, has been assigned to the
Eighth infantry, which is now quarter
ed in the Philippines. Prior to leaving
for his post he will visit his friends
and relatives in Leavenworth-
Mr.. ]. NJ. Meade, of Topeka. connect
ed with the AtchiSon, Topeka & Santa
Fe railroad, and Mr.. l. Bradley, of EN-
poria, associated with the same system,
are in attendance of the roadmasters'
meeting of the American Railroad as
ISOLATION being held in Washington. Mr..
Meade is president of the convention
Sometime during the session MI Brad
ley will read paper entitled, Are the
Best Results Obtained from the Use of
Broken or Square Joints, on Both Dou-
BILE and Single Track?
Representative Curtis of Kansas,
called on Secretary Wilson at the de-
partment of agriculture in the interest
of some minor matters for his conSt1t-
uents. During the conversation Secre-
tary Wilson took occasion emphatlcaliy
to deny that he had ever stated that
Kansas was IAN arid state" as some of
the western newspapers have quoted
him. Mr.. Curtis visited the interior de-
partment and urged the payment OF 90
per cent of the traders claims for goods
delivered to the Usage Indians on the
grounds that many of the traders would
otherwise be forced into bankruptcy
City wholesale houses were pressing
their bills upon the traders, and that
the payment as proposed would prevent
them going to the wall The interior de-
partment took the suggestion under ad-
visement-
It is estimated that the peach crop Of
the United States will amount this year
to about 75,0000 900 bushels. The gigantic
industry 1t represents has been trans
formed by the introduction of various
new and scientific IDEAS Most import
ant among these is an intensive"
method of culture, by which one acre is
made to yield more than used to be OBJ
tanned, reckoned in bushels, from four
times that area. Kansas could profit by
the idea. To the Old-faShiOned grower
the notion of cutting off three-fourths
of the peaches just when they are be-
ginning to develop seems absurd and
even outrageous vet in this way many
more bushels are actually obtained than
would be produced If there was no such
interference, and the individual peaches
are very much finer, bringing far
higher price in the market. By such
means a maximum of 10 bushels to a
tree, or 500 bushels tc the acre is Sc
cured.
Now, this is business, and of a kind to
astonish the planters of the old school
number of seeds, i. e.: peach stones, pro
duced is only one-fourth of the normal,
greatest of all drains upon the vitality of
the tree 9using up incidentally lt5hd, lar nie
fected. incidentally, regularity Of yield
The greatest enemy of the peach grower
is frost a peach tree is a porn TOOL an ~
warmth it permits it's buds to expand, in
the mistaken notion that gentle spring l
and it is nipped with disastrous financial
results to the planter. Down south this
north, because of the warm spells that
arrive during the winter
cradle extent by spraying the twigs and
buds with a solution of whitewaSh, the
effect being to hold back the buds Being
white the buds and twigs thus coated re-
fleet the suns rays instead OF absorbing
them.
The peach season In the north has been
greatly heightened by the INTRODUCTION or
southern peaches, largely from Georgia,
the shipment of which to northern mar
kets has been rendered practicable and
profitable by the modern refrigerator car.
At the present time immense tracts in
Georgia are occupied by peach orchards,
a single one of which packs and ships
more than 5000 bushels, a day in the busy
season These orchards may be said to
represent the extensive method of
peach culture, as opposed to the .inten-
sive" In July, which is their busy month.
they employ veritable armies of labQrers
and on each plantation is a big acking
house with Sidetracl1S connecting with the
main railway line At important centers
of the growing industry are huge ice stor-
age houses, built by the refrigerator car
conpanies with every convenience for
icing the cars which are to carry the fruit
northward- l. WILLIAM THAVlS-