Evening journal., 1905-06-21
BOUQUETS FOR KANSAS
Australia Pays Marked Tribute
to Her Enterprise.
ExcELLED BY NONE, SAYS A PAPER

hAOhhAAb - NONBi OA y a EhTbh
'clShamDton Newspaper, Comment
ing on work of Secretary Coburn
OF Agricultural Department, Says
e. State Made Greater Progress In
AHst century's Last Quarter Than
Amy other Part of the world.
The greatness Of Kansas Is recogniz-
ed in faron Australia, says a Topeka
dispatch to the Kansas City Times.
According to the Morning Bulletin Of
Rockhampton, Queensland, a copy Of
which was recently received by Secre-
tary Coburn Of the department Of agri-
culture, Kansas made greater progress
In the last quarter Of the last century
than any other part of the civilized
world The paper says:
"Bold as the statement appears, it
may be made with every confidence in
ability to demonstrate the tfuthfulness
of it that in no part OF the civilized
world has human progress been so
marked within the last quarter of the
last century as in the state of Kansas,
one of the United States Of America.
With rejoicing it is TO be noted. more
over, that this development has been
Cue not to vast deposits Of mineral
wealth. but to the climatic conditions,
the cultivable character Of the soil and
the enterprise and determination Of
the people by whom the country has
been occupied.
"The eminence attained by Kansas
may well be the envy of other states
and stimulate the desire ON the part Of
their occupants to use the means and
methods by which it has been attained.
These are freely indicated in the four
teenth biennial report of the Kansas
state board of agriculture for the years
1908 and 1904. copy OF which has
just reached us. II contains infOrma-
ton relative to the farm and farm
home and their betterment, with de-
partments especially devoted TO pota-
toes and their productions: modern
dairying. railroads and their relation
TO agriculture, breeding improvement,
rearing and care OF various live stock;
sugar beets in Kansas, inexpensive
roadmaking, Kansas at the worlds
fair in 1904 and agricultural statistics
for the last twenty years.
1.-The success of Kansas at the
worlds fair was all the more creditable
that II was achieved in the face of
great obstacles. The state, it must be
remembered, suffered two years In sue
cession from disastrous floods. These
affected the yields of cereals, yet that
Of wheat in 1903 was record breaking
and that Of 1904 above the average As
Kansas possesses the largest apple or
chard In the world and stands third in
the list of states IN number Of fruit
trees planted and growing, il is not TO
be wondered at that she received recOg-
milton from the judges even though the
fruit was not as good as usual owing
TO the excessive rainfall. Mr.. COburn is
to be complimented on the admirable
articles which he has combined IN this
biennial report and the precise and vO-
luminous character of the statistics"
Secretary Coburn has received a let
ter also from William McIlwraith, an
editor in Queensland. The letter says
in part:
II am afraid am not always so care
full in quoting my authority as I might
be, but on the whole l do you justice,
In connection with this matter let me
tell you a local writer on agricultural
subjects made free use Of your reports
and posed as an authority. He was an
insurance agent when he began to in
oculate the minds Of agricGlturists with
the bacteria of Kansas ideas and expe-
riences. He made noise. his notions
took hold Of politicians, and the other
day he was appointed director Of agri-
culture for one Of our states nt a salary
of $50 year. I attribute his exalta-
tion very largely to the good use be
made Of information derived from your
reports"