The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-27

They realize fully that what can be done
al Rocky Ford can be duplicated at
Lakin or Garden City: it means added
business fer the railroad. intense devel-
opment of the valuable territory tribl-
tary. and the. bringing in of a thrifty
population
The Salvation Army colony gathered in
from the slums of the cities east without
any experience along agricultural lines,
going out to a new and untried country,
as far they were concerned. nave In a
few years worked out a wonderful sue
cess for themselves, and demonstrated
the fact that it is not always necessary
to depend on skilled farm labor to carry
out agricultural enterprises successfully.
Surely there are many, many thousands
OF people in the cities of the east when
they become acquainted with the oppor-
tunitieS that are still in the west for
homes, happiness and prosperity, when
their attention is turned to the raising of
beets on the Arkansas valley which pre-
sents such large held for development
and agricultural growth along these lines
described, they will surely come this way.
As / have said before it is understood
that the railroads are working along
these lines of giving information, and
trying all in their power to educate the
people who are working to better their
condition. The western Arkansas valley
while it is now with its valuable acre
age of alfalfa, combined with the feeding
and growing of cattle, one of the very
will yet be in the future with its sum
shine, water and soil the richest agricul-
turaI section of the state. It is my i'm
preston that Great Bend or Hutchinson
is the eastern line Of growing beets sue
cessfuIIy owing to the fact that the an
nuaI rainfall east of that section of the
state is generally too excessive. Beets.
while they grow very prolific in eastern
Kansas arc lacking in the most essential
and important feature-of having q per
cent of sugar to make them profitable,
whereas, the natural rainfall in that sec
ton covering between Hutchinson and
Larned, is just about right for the grow
ing of beets without supplementing it by
irrigation.
I would say to the dairyman and the
farmer who milks cows for the skimmins
station or who works up the product OF
the cows himself, that whether there is
a beet factory in sight or not, plant beets
for your use-if only fourth, or hall
of an acre, you will find It a wonderful
paying investment. It is estimated by
those who feed the beet pulp from the
factory which only contains one per cent
of sugar matter. that 1t increases this
flow of milk one third in the dairy cows
! What then Will the whole beet chopped
/ in proper manner do for your herd II
/ the way of bringing increased supplies OF
/ milk With all the saccharine matter Of
the beet The dairy interests of the STATE
are rapidly increasing, and it seems to ms
/ before tying up too closely, perhaps K
/ the proposition of building a sugar fac
/ tory along the valley, that through ths
4 dairy we can learn. in a manner, thu
value of beets. and if We hear, and
! have good reason to believe of the re
/ Turns the results will be most happy anC
/ gratifying. and when it has proved it:
value along these lines. there is no ques
/ ton but the people here will take kindly
to beet culture will talk and grow beets
and it will go out to the country at larg'
| that We have the soil and climatic con
/ ditions especially adapted to that culture
! then a factory coming in, investing it:
large capital, viii feel more certain IL
their investments when it has been prac
/ tically demonstrated that We can grow
them successfully. and in the meantime
anything that will add to the prosperit.
lsof the dairy interests IN Kansas is wort h.
of a trial irrespective of any probable O
/ possible sugar factory.
]. H. CHURCHILL.
President Dodge City Commercial CIuI
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