The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-21

should be cut several times during the
month to keep it short enough so that the
chicks may run in it without getting too
damp. If lawn mower is used the blades
should be set high so that the blades
of green grass viii be an inch high, at
least, after the cutting is done. This
will give the chicks plenty Of green food
and enable them TO get at the insects
better and reduce the danger TO catching
roup, which would be the case If they ran
in the deep grass. This work is not
a great deal of trouble TO take when
one realizes that it may mean the saving
of a number of chicks.
REVIEW OF OKLAHOMA HISTORY
The following editorial appears in the
Farming in the Great Southwest:
There have been exciting scenes called
openings" the fame Of which has gone
abroad all over the world as instances
of what Americans. and Americans only,
are capable of. Men, nearly all poor and
endeavoring 10 use the last opportunity.
rode or walked across the border by
thousands in one day upon the mere hope
BY the latest overhauling Of the rules
governing the award of this emblem ii is
of obtaining a government quarter-sec-
ton, regardless of where or what ii was
and knowing nothing about il. There
have been lotteries, the only ones in
modern times under the patronage and
management of the United States govern
mert. and these have been supplemental
by auction sales OF town lots by the
same authority, the immense sums Of
money so received being held in trust
by the United States treasury, to be
later expended for municipal benefits and
improvements under government dtrec-
ton; an instance of ''paternaI' govern
1nent" that has so far escaped political
criticism.
These scenes have been supplemented
by the taxing 10 their uttermost of all
the powers and facilities of great rail-
way lines, and the wearing out of bril-
gades of trained officials. Thousands Of
men and hundreds of women were carried
to the new country over hundreds Of miles
Of continuous travel, for whom there
were neither seats or standing room, or
water to drink, or food to eat, or shelter
from wind and weather. Upon at least
two occasions those episodes in the his
tory of Oklahoma have been also, IN
reality. episodes in the history Of Ameri-
can civilization.
But there are still other things about
a remarkable country that are not so
well known. They followed the dramatic
scenes of the beginning as series Of
consequences. The rewards of the horde
of adventures have been great There have
now been seven years of big wheat and
other crops. and there is every prospect
that the eighth, 1903, will be the greatest
of all This is a remarkable thing for
even the most favored farming regions
east of the Mississippi.
To the traveller across Oklahoma by
lines. 'old'' Oklahoma, which is the part
that was Opened thirteen years ago, is
one of the most beautiful of American
pastoral scenes. It is all fields and farms
and tree-fringes to the far horizon on
every hand, and the general scene extends
for hundreds of miles without break.
It seems an old country. but one that is
old without decay. The situation seems
to the eye the same as that in central
Kansas. now forty-five years old.
There are the first of May, huge squares
of soil, red or chocolate or brown, ~
ing in the midst of fields of emerald
green. Dimly across these squares may
be traced the thin, pale green lines Of
the new corn. The wheat, just tall enough
to be rippled by the passing wind, stands
rank and thick over the large areas
Teams are everywhere afield. Small, trim
farm houses stand amid young trees and
slumps of orchard The tall windmills,
with their whirling white wheels. stand
in outline against blue and sunlit sky.
The towns are three or four times as
big as they ought to be by any ancient
standard of growth. The courthouse, the