The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-02-28

Such showing in the year Of widely
her1lded corn failure seems more par
/ >doxical than II is Setting aside the
I financial enfranchisement Of the state
/ waving the wholesome fact that the
+ farms. the stores and the cattle are 10
longer paying t1ibute 70 eastern banks
nificant truth lies IN the statement that
/ kansas IS getting on To ITSELF I hope
that isn't too breezy an expression Just
q minute and 7 VIII give some more sta
tistics- The idea Is that Kansas Is just
delving beneath the upper surface Of her
own posi- ilities. For instance: Last
year her so-caHed corn crop was
short. but in the cattle and Germ region
the yield Of Kaffir corn. Milo maize. Jeru-
salem corn and sorghum for forage was
worth $1,000 co, Know anything about
l[affir corn? r grows ara fourlshes on
soils that have been cliied arid it de-
fies droughts and Is q better feed product
/ than Indian core at its best. NOW. 3ust
add 70 that ten million dollars worth o.
Saffir corn the 1891 WELD Of taFur bay.
90 3s1 ,0oa and ten the Weld II alfalfa
and wild hay. $9.tS1,oo0 and YOU have
nearly $50 100000 worth Of fodder which.
with so. 600 900 worth Of n failed corn
crop. may help YOU 70 understand what a
had year Il is for the Kansas cattlemau
and why he cores 10 town IN a ruhtcr-
tired surrey, smiles with his banker and
refuses 10 sell his farm at any price. ON.
this eastern Kansas farmer is queer
proposition.
lie figures like q bank clerk studies
ike q civil service candidate and works
harder ttau either of them That's the
reason he has found out what his faru
can do. Until six years ago kaffir corn
was practically unknown 20 the Kansas
facmer and stock feeder Now its
stanie commodity So IS alfalfa, sorghum
Milo maize and Jerusalem corn. There
was time when corn failure In Kansas
meant something sad. But that day has
gone. That Kansas drought ~ 1871 was
not more serious than thai Of other corn
producing states Is proven by the fact
that Kansas feeders Of the eastern coun-
ties went into Missouri ana repleaiehed
their herds with cattle which were hcinE
held at a loss IN tie latter state There
fore. the eastern Kansas farmer is Hour
ishlng on a corn failure in Doegias
Shawnee. Osage Jefferson and most Of
the eastern counties few farms are for
sale and those that can De bought are
held at prices which seem nronioiuFe TO
the man who does not know what Kan
sas can do The entrauched Kanean
knows. You can drop into the federal
agricultural experiment station ~ the
state any dag and find "a hsif dozen
farmers. feeders or cartlemeu discussing
with the scientists the nutrtive qualities
of Kahir corn as compared with the In
dian grain. These IiLers o. tie soil
know an about She flesh rodlcire at
tributes Of sorghum plants, the percent
q &c OF moisture required for Milo maize,
the dcpfhs OF which alfalfa roots wii de-
scend. the values ~ wild grasses as COM
pared with tame for FORAGE and 2 dozen
ether scientific phases Ct farming THAI
never enter the heads ~ eastern formers.
Secretary p y. Cohurn. ~ The Stare
Board o. Agriculture. who is faruer
here since tie evil war. 8 scholar ara
scientist. says
I'VE have learned the resources ~ our
soil and have f1u Conscience ln h. $50
state n The union has brighter fetsre
than Kansas. Long since we dlseoFers0
that methods suited to our old homes Ed
the sVabash ana Saugamen valleys ard
other eastern sections would n8f ~ here
We know the value e sorghum. kaalr
corn ANA alfalfa. tTlaitE taat Wil "a tke
Kansas the richest agr.c-lturai couma-
niiv iu the word. Last Tear. ia common
witn other PARIS ~ t1e crra ieit. orr
corn cror u1s s parrish failure ult fha
Isnrrausa crcrs ~ 1ther eeresl- and fr-
1ge st-6s uere chen Offset lae lars aat
the value ~ gu- farm products broke af
records. klsars haze fllit aarl
Themselves ~ f1eir new environments a.s
50 eEr are fheg - inc~esse thelr had-
iuEs faat c1- u1u rfs hg
hers farm. That muci ADVERTISED hreeF
man. tle haus-s MORTGAGE
as the dnie. snl strangers c1rE here
lCoki1E far rarrrs ia Farm r
little oofcrrlnt.s the RESIDENTS ~
snvthing ~ ifs acfa Fae
FORE 8 sfror ger car hear ~ t WHn CIR
farmers rou RE prpbteu H 1w a. d
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