Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS

| iic WHEAT dCIedSe Oh Kansas InlS IAN,
said State Senator Charles H. Lamkin of
| Wichita, that state. at the Arlington last
week, will be 10 per cent greater than
last year. During the past few months 1
| have Travelled extensively over the large
wheat-growing counties, and know of what
I speak. The reason for this is that the
summer just past has been an ideal one for
fall sowing. There have been plenty of
rains, which have suitably prepared the
grounds for fall seeding. The acreage of
wheat sown this fall is much greater than
ever before, for the reason that farmers be-
lieve, in spite of prevailing prices it paws
to raise wheat. The last four wheat crops
have paid off many mortgages and have
encouraged farmers to increase their acre
ages. 1t is estimated that not less than
100000 acres have been sown to wheat
in Kansas this fall. This is the high-water
| mark in wheat sowing in Kansas.
THE greatest wheat acreages in the past
We're In the early sos. The average jumped
to 511O,0O0 acres, adding over. a million of
acres in a single year. The crop of 1902 will
| not be far from 40 600 GOO bushels The corn
crop promises TO be record breaker this year,
In spite of the lack of early rains in some
sections. Contracts have already been
made with spectators in some parts of
Kansas at 40 cents per bushel. Contra cts
also have been made for large shipments of
crib lumber with railroad agents, and mil
lions of dollars will be invested in corn
Prices for the article will probably start at
- cents, and the price may possibly rise to
30 cents on the ground
I'VE are knee deep in good times in west
ern New York. said Mr.. Darius L. Covili
or Geneseo, a recent guest at the New Will
, lard My section of the state is the rich
est, agriculturally speaking, in the great
commonwealth of New York. 1t Is also the
great fruit-growing region of the state
since 1897 the farmers of New York have
been making money faster than at any
other period since the close of the late
civil war. For ten years previous to 1897
agriculture in New York suffered a decline,
and farm lands were greatly depressed in
price. Now they quoted at top figures
and in the farfamed Genessee valley none
that l know of are for sale. Generally
speaking, the lands in western New York
are principally devoted to fruit raising and
the growing of potatoes. We furnish the
world with both of these products. some
apple orchards that / could name produce
in single good season $4,000 worth of
ffult rms sounds big, but can produce
the facts to back the statement. What do
you think of a pear orchard of $50 acres9
Burt Van Horn of Niagara county owns an
orchard of the dimensions named When
be gets full crop he makes a barrel of
money.
The great potato-growing region is in
the western portion of Ontario county. This
county also produces some of the finest ap-
pies and grapes. The latter are grown on
the shores of Canandaigua lake Yates,
an adjoining county, also produces fine
grapes and apples In large quantities Mon
roe, Orleans and Niagara counties are
great peach, pear and apple-producing re-
gions. The Genessee valley produces every-
thing that the preceding sections named
grow, and leads them in wheat, not only in
the amount grown per acre, but in the mat
Time ybov, a.
from Genessee valley wheat was a STAPLE
product all over the bread-eating world.
The wheat lands of the valley are not as
productive as they were half century ago
By constant cropage the peculiar qualities
which produced the valley wheat became
in the course OF time exhausted In other
words. Mother Nature became vexed at the
drafts made upon her and refused to cash
Il presume every one, almost in the
United States has heard of the Wads-
worths. They are the lords of the Genes
see valley. Their land holdings comprise
thousands Of acres of some of the richest
lands warmed by the suns rays They
comes nearest to being representatives of a
landed arissocracy of any family in the
travel for thirty miles In a straight line
and still be on their own land. Notwith-
standing their great wealth in lands.
stock. stocks and bonds, they put on on Of
fensive adrs. Their lands are cut up into
small holdings, furnished with all the nee
essary buildings and fences and are farned
by tenants, much on the order Of the Eng
lish system. For upward Of three-auarters
of a century the Wadsworths have been
breeders Of the finest beef cattle, mutton
sheep and hogs in the state. Indeed, the
elder Wadsworth was the pioneer breeder
OF good stock of all kinds in New York It
was the uncle of Representative Wads-
worth who purchased and brought to west
ern New York the celebrated stallion Henry
Clay, the founder OF the weli-known family
pf Clays which has done SO much to i'm
prove the breed Of light harness horses in
the United States. and which has added
many millions to the wealth of the coun-
try"
speaking OF pensions" said Mr. Leonard
Denison OF st. Joseph. Mo-, at the Cochran
Hotel, "you would be surprised to learn
that Missouri almost rivals Kansas in the
number OF pensioners of the civil war. /
am pension attorney, and will take as
a sample the List of nensions tssx,ed Sem