The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-11
CORN STORIES.
Items That Prove the Prosper
ity of Kansas.
Evidence That Farming Pays In
SunfiOWer State.
EVERYTHING is BIG.
Potatoes, Corn and Pumpkins
Tell Own Story.
Cattle and Hogs Bring Money
to People.

Kansas has just passed through a
crop season which has been neither a
bumper" nor a failure" 1t has been
an average season, the kind the farm
ers want and the kind that brings the
right share of prosperity to all.
The papers of the state are printing
parag graphs which explain the prosperity
The notices of large pumpkins fat hogs
big potatoes, tall cOrnstalks, apple
yields, alfalfa cuttings. chickens and
melons have been picked up when pros
porous farmers have dropped into the
Offices TO pay their subscriptions or nave
taken large vegeta bles TO the editor Tor
exhibition. Had a little effort been
made to secure statistics about pros
perity the stories would have Deen
bigger and too numerous to print in TINS
space. A few prosperity items from
here and there are as follows:
lola Record: 1t would be hard to con-
vince Josh Butler that farming in Kan
sas doesn't pay. If the three or four
store buildings, the half a dozen resi-
dences, which he rents at good price
and which were built with money MADE
in farming. should suddenly become
nonproductive Mr.. Butler declares that
he would not starve for a few weeks. al
least. With e big wheat acreage thai
averaged 30 bushels to the acre, with
immense corn fields that will average ~
bushels to the acre, and with about 400
bushels of potatoes on the farm and an
abundance Of smaller crops he thinks
that he would be able by strict economy
to get through the winter. he has IL
head of two and three-year- steers
that he will put on full feed and next
summer ne will about break up the
packing trust. Farming may not pay
in Kansas" he said to a Record man. /
but 1 think that a man with such crops
would be able to keep the wolf from
gnaWing the screens down until the
flies come next year. Even cur dog
could fight back the long eared gnawer
with such crops as these.
Sedan Times-Star: Mr.. Phillips has
returned from visit to Ohio. Andy |
did not know whether he was satisfied
for awhile. Now he says he can say
of the old "sunflower patch" that "ab
sence makes the heart grow fonder."
Kensington Miner: Albert Brunow
tells US he win have about 1000 bushels
of corn this year, and he bad 60 acres
OF wheat that averaged "a bushels to the
acre.
Cherokee County Republican: An
eastern paper states that Kansas farm
ers are getting ready to burn corn again
this winter Those who wish may pay
their subscriptions to this paper in
that kind Of material at fuel prices.
Eastern fellows need not think that be-
cause there is a coal strike on in Penn
sylvania that we are likely to go cold
here. Corn stalks make better fire than
corn does, and the stalks this year are
as big as the ordinary stove wood in
thickness. No, the corn will be needed
to send to the hungry people of the east,
we cannot afford to burn it.
Newton Kansan: Fred Rowland of
Harvey county is a firm believer in
alfalfa. This summer he had a 50-acre
field sown to this kind of feed He has
already made two cuttings, each yield
ing about two tons and will have a
third cutting, which will give at least
so tons. unless there should be frosts.
The $50 tons of alfalfa obtained in this
way have sold for about SC a ton on
an average, making total of 5000 from
the years crop. In addition to this 12f
bushels of seed were obtained from the
second growth and found a ready mar
ket at Sc a bushel. The STA received
from this source added to the 5000
makes a total of 81, 164 as the proceeds
of the so acres for one season.
Oberlin Eye: On the first day of Jan
uary 1902, W. L. Acton bought 100 acres
of land on the Sappa, southwest of
Oberlin, paying $3.50 per acre therefor
In the spring he sowed 40 acres to bar
ley, planted 40 acres to sugar cane and
put in so a cres of alfalfa The barley
yielded 40 bushels to the acre and he
sold it for 40 cents a bushel or a total
of SIG per acre The cane will do fully
as well as the barley, and the alfalfa
has made a good stand and growth so
that 140 of the quarter paid for itself
the first year and left a nice margin
towards paying for the remainder of
the quarter. What is the matter with
Decatur county?
Kansas Commoner: Seventeen head
of native steers. averaging / PCS pounds
sold at Kansas City at 1915. which is
the highest price for beef ever received
on that market. The cattle were sent
by c. c. Slaughter of Dallas, Tex. They
were fed at Council Grove Kas.. and ia
20 months gained 942 pounds.
A store window in Ottawa is deco
rated with corn and among the cas- is
a small one, bearing this explanation:
This curiosity is called a 'nubbin' 1t is