The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1906-02-23
sHoRTGRAss COUNTRY PASSING

Modern Farming Methods are MAX
ing Northwestern Kansas.
That northwestern Kansas is in the
eve of daily newspapers and multi
tude Of people looking for homes and
investment, is evidenced by the great
amount of favorable publicity it en-
lows one item in the great mass OF
literature about northwestern Kansas
being dated at Lincoln, Neb., Febru-
ary II, and printed in the Kansas City
Journal, as follows:
The short grass country IS rapidly
diminishing in area Within three
years the redemption to agriculture Of
the vast plains OF northwestern Kan
sas will be practically complete
Then years ago there were many
houses in this region Most Of them
were OF sod. Few Of them were &C.
cupied. A short time before, when
the eastern money lOaner was easier
than he is now, men borrowed to the
limit and then abandoned the farms
they had hastily measured out upon
the prairie.
The new breed Of settlers IS differ
ent- They come here from other
parts of the west They know the
climates vagaries, and they know
what the soil viii bring forth That
this is true they have proved by their
Earnering Of wheat crops upon land
that cost them but a third Of the val
ne OF what il raises. There are sod
houses left, but they are mostly va
cant. They mark the going settler
not the man who has arrived. In their
stead are frame structures
The experiment station agricultur-
lists and the farmers OF northwestern
Kansas have combined in the work
Of redemption The former discover
ed what could be best raised In this
section, and the latter has followed
his directions. Wheat, corn, barley,
oats. alfalfa and kafhr corn, are the
principal products nowadays When
a man can raise twenty-five to thirty
bushels OF 65-cent wheat on SO land
he IS doing real well. There IS so
much profit in raising wheat at the
current prices on the cheap land OF
that section that the farmers look up
on the building OF granaries as an IN
necessary expense and jeer at the man
who suggests holding for better
prices.
The farmer Of northwestern Kansas
Is not inclined to be satisfied with the
modest acres Of his eastern colleagues
The thing that impresses visitors mos
is the great number Of acres that one
man tends. or rather attempts &c
manage. The cheapness Of the land
tempted the cupidity Of the FRS
corners and the prOductiveness OF the
soil melted them to take in as much
land as they could see Not an IN
common sight in this section is to
see a man and a boy or two mer
farming a half section OF $40 acres
The man who doesn't tend at leas'
q half section is rather looked doTT
mon as q one horse farmer. The
real farmer cares not so much for the
Weld per acre as for the yield pei
farm The size Of the implements II
use are proportional TO the area o.
the farms, and nothing that does no
require four horses TO operate it L
considered worth buying
Corn IS somewhat OF a stranger Z
this section. but the persevering far
rners have discovered the secret o
profitable productivity. The groun'
Is easily kept clean and often but on
blowing IS all that Il gets. The stall
does not grow as tail as in the east
en- part OF the state, but 1t contain
IS many ears and as many bushei
to the acre. Barley and oats are a
easy to raise As corn and wheat an
command profitable prices right q
ste ts1reshfnE machine
me Creamery has even INVADED tn
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