Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1902-05-31
a Pronhecv of Kansas.


Ks. nsas is the land of sunshine and
golden prospects. Her prairies are
carpeted with 1,50O species of native
plants, any one OF which is worthy to
be part of landscape or flower garden
Her native grasses, trees, sunfioweIs,
goldenrods and aStorS rejoice under
her sunny skies, and borrow their
colors from the flood of light which
old Sol pours forth as a free gift to
nature and to man. Wheat. corn. and
alfalfa fields garner up the sunbeamS
and insure SuStenance to millions of
fattening kline and provide the mater
ial welfare for the most intelligent
rural population on the globe.
Kansas is the center of the cOnti-
nent. She is capable Of affording
comfortable and happy homes TO a
greater population than is now in
habiting France. She has the resour-
ces within herself to produce bread
and meat in sufficient quantity to
feed the whoie1preSent population Of
the United States. Enough fertile
soil might be taken from Kansas prai-
ries, without her farmers missing it,
to cover the state Of New York with
black, rich soil one foot in depth.
She presents greater inducements for
the exercise of intellect and ingenuity
on the part of the agriculturiSt than
any other territory of like dimensions
on the face of the earth.
I have claimed my residence at va
rious times of my life in different
states in periods of time varying from
four months to twenty years.
l have travelled more or less in IA
other states and have also had the
privilege of travelling in SO Kansas
counties. / would rather make my
permanent home in any one of these
SO counties than in any one of the 20
states, outside of Kansas, in which I
| have had my residence or travelled.
Others may sing of the Lone Star
state, Of the Empire state, of Rock
bound New England, or the land Of
oranges and raisinS, but give me Kan
Sas with all her drouth and hot winds.
1 regard the drouth and hot winds as
potentially the greatest blessings
which Kansas has to bestow upon fut-
ure inhabitants. If she had the fogs
and lowering skies that prevail in
New England, she would be almost
uninhabitable. Her rich soil would
be a breeding place Of disease and her
highways and fields would become i'm
paSsable bOgs and moraSSes. Heat is
energy and it is not long stretch of
Imagination to see the farmers OF the
future utilizing the superabundance
of heat carried across the prairieS
during the summer months, as a
source Of power with which to bar
vest their wheat crops and pillow their
fertile fields. Imagine an electric
apparatus, consisting of a network of
wires stretched along the south and
west sides of the farm having the
ability to transform the heat of the
passing breeze, above IS degrees f.,
into electrical energy. Such an ap-
! paratuS would be able to deliver balmy
fresh air of the best possible temper
allure to the growing crops and to fur
nish all the necessary power to drive
the machinery of the farm. The i'm
putation of hot winds and drouth to
Kansas is in no degree a disgrace to
her in my estimation.
Her patriotic sons will one day breed
and introduce varitieS of plants that
will flourish like the green bay tree
with only Is inches of rainfall. For.
ests of conifers will be planted on bel
western sand-hills, and every farm
will have its forest windbreak. Hell
future horticulturlsts will breed va
i; rites of fruits that will steal their
colorS from the sunbeams, and flour
ish on the broad prairies even to the