The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-05
EACH ONE $500.
What Pawnee County Wheat
Crop Would Do.
If Proceeds We're Divided Every
One Would Have Money.
YIELD is VERY LARGE.
Judge LobdeIl Says SO Land
Produces % to 30 Bushels.
Passing of the Buffalo Grass
Region.

There are thousands of acres of
three dollar land in Lane and Ness
counties that are turning out twenty
five bushels of sixty pound wheat"
This is the statement made today by
Judge Charles LIobdell of Larned, whose
judicial district takes in Pawnee, Rush,
Ness. Lane, Scott, Wichita and Greeley
counties. Judge Lobden formerly lived
at Dighton in Lane county and knows
all that country like book.
"A great deal of the wheat out in that
country is running from 25 bushels to
the acre up to so or better, and nearly
all of it will do better than 20 bushels.
In Pawnee county the wheat will give
$500 per capita to every man, woman
and child in the county. In the big crop
of two years ago the per capita from
the wheat crop in Pawnse county was
$3.50. This crop this year is the greatest
thing that ever happened to that coun-
try out there"
is there really any good wheat land
to be had out there for three dollars an
acre?' Judge Lobdell was asked
'Oh, yes, thousands of acres of it," he
replied. In some localities 1 expect
good wheat land can be bought for less
than that. A great deal Of good land
out there has not yet been broken up,
and it is fine land out there, too. Around
Ransome in Ness county is as fine
country as you ever saw There is
territory about ten miles in diameter
around Ransome that is as level as
| can be. You can see all over it and
there is just wheat in every direction"
Don't YOU think this big crop will
| tempt the farmers out there to rush
into wheat raising and put out tre-
mendous acreage the coming fall?"
mo, l hardly think So" said Judge
Lobdell. There is a temperate dispo-
sition among the farmers in regard to
wheat raising. 1 imagine the acreage
will be about the same as this year.
The farmers out there are getting in
terested in the dairy business. They
are shifting up their big herds OF cat
tie and are beginning to milk their
cows. They are buying these hand
separators. and find they can make a
good deal of money out of their cows
"If a man would farm out there and
make his living and a little more out OF
a bunch of cows in the dairy business.
and then get a good wheat crop about
one year in three. which he ought to
do on an average, he. could not help
getting rich.
Then the country is getting better
right along as the buffalo grass is
turned under. 1 don't think our rain
fall is increasing so much as we are
changing the quality of the atmos-
phere. When the country was all COW
cred with that yellow buffalo grass the
air was as dry as could be. and no
matter how much moisture we had the
winds would dry the ground right out.
Now the farmers are getting the buf-
! falo grass turned under, and they are
getting out little orchards and groves
. of trees. and it is really making diff
ference in the dryness of the atmos-
phere The air won't dry the ground
out as it did a few years ago
The farmers are already selling their
wheat out in the wheat country. Mr..
Chapman, the Great Bend banker. told
me his bank took in it's first wheat de-
posit week ago Saturday. 1t was a
check for 400.