The Globe-republican., 1906-03-15
WRITER IN i CITY STAR
SAYS III I * Ks FORD
coul
KLs1ON FN IHElAUtl
OF Greatest Wheat Yield 0f
twcUHty y hp,4aryss
Wheat Belt

&YrJ y ~ IVY
Wheat Belt
gspsCSs flasr',sf 4, 49, asp3
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Tridays Stars.
I'm 1905 Barton county Great band y
3 isisopphty seat--xas thsA asner swhesl
sis1slsiug ssauty os4bs statsr wlfbsa sstpp
Of some million bushsls, and In shs bar
s.rsn. tyyslsssf dry couaty e1F@dfes 4 had
fowolit swssty y ars bslSrsy 49, wss
hsfvsstedtn 1895 @osss han \ niliilsh
bushels y whsst To- I'D ounsy
svsan by Ceres that the tsqsop lss apar u
hand When isxill ~ ~ sspnsr skstnow
fies over Barton, and, By tAs same god.
I dsss, sthstwsy. Il sshasssslss
the same are better than Barton's seemed
tc be but 4, few yssrssepc Ipi9ol Sam.
jnes was the banner wheat county Of Ksa-
-, withits crop o. about million bu-
shells. In less than nvsysars she greatest
Wheat production, counties N Eansss has
nm moved wssi nifty miles, far inio he short
sP grass country, has increased ! million
bushela and The, Kassm vhsstarssis nov
limited 70 the west only 81 ~ benpdryI
llps. How much farther lSto Cslonds
thsSwssss atsa nay. exsssd 10 ! ssu9sI
do not cara just newto mlksa
~ "why is It wheat 10 a. easily niss1
otbs now ID such counties q Ford and Il eould
you mot be suchia short time passi Macy VIII
little tel you thai becauss u ipIswlug ,h.l
over ground and 'ree planting thsrs IL . great.
used % rainfall now than then; that torn erly
was NOT sufieisntsud lassssiy sAsrs
.o,s' aas been, hence the former failurs aud
Her later success. This might settle |. N Il
her li.Sere true about the rainfall. rMakaaep,
her athan asupsrheial investigation and the
N. evidence will show you, asitf dos ns,
,uth that theirs has been no insrsasss lin ths
zen rainfall over the short grass coantry sincs
! sihs EgElish sp-skiag white nsans ssps
y into 1t, Old liners viii tell you. 10 gen.
4 ,veral, they cannos say there 10 mers rain
,e W now, but that there seems 70 b. greater
ars. hlimidiIy IN the atmosphere and nors
FRS pampness 10 the ground. The natloual
t.. and stats governmspts Ihaveiksps careful
and accurate record ef. the ossin1ali for
Thu more than thirty years in this section ysar,
lat by year, and thai record shows 10 in-
avol. srsass. vf Nj t:reg
'llQ.."0ns must look to the ground and net
RI ito the air for reasons 81 20 eswhys srcps
eDThsm now 10 laad where there was a.
'riwantafilciens moisture to mature thsm afsssn
70 q Dr. twsats years ago, no1w,ths attending the
w1oAinfall, Is no greater Then the hard
iirfaced land threw of the fallIps .vsteE
-eaeuelo0 ,sais 4bsgfbeutb y the susssssiss
glowing the sans land soaks.qp shs rains
A prsAll aye preserves slh,i znSisIprs ,Rns
ught oIsst feIADes wers ihss 6nkaewIns sans
,ere 5sncalculated preparations OF the lard
3 Sl--<actIy Ia accord with the ptinslpIss q
ppr nat IL now known in the Wsssss tlis
ne lmpbsllsysismo Of csl,ixssisn. TlslAnd
, lel kadushy changed from shedding u me
ater tOpfsssryiag hsasa,s ~ -sasiaos
Is moi-lure, until The happy result waa
stained Of country enabled % pasgsrve
and hold enough Of dsmpnsss iromIlssby
% means abundant rains y inssrs =
reasonable return 10 ths harvest timess
Piowed ground, = eysryoss sknows,
win soak up and hold moIsgprs whsnhard
surfacsti land will not, snd the mvrs its
"a i plovsd and loossned uptb grsat-
NJ its absorbent capacity. There a.
ofhsf incidents folIeWing the coming o.
1.-THE pIowman Into ths sherl sraes eeantsg,
thar add their SHARE to enabling lhs land
70 secure tie bsnefta of rainfall zlMs7s
shHlcIsut for stest ggowlnR n Anasin
pfopef zhAps 70 prFssSvs she moIainras
( rhs blowing Of The ground end TIE ogoad-
Ise out 81 shs short buffalo Gssis. ~ ID
great measure prevented Z recsnshcs
" ths old tims pEsi,is aEss ihsl slasepl
.stsr season swept ths ahoSf Esass ooaa-.
~ and baked The surfaces n ihoaaaadsI
n zs|,k.s |hIl1s llniil = Fssn slsz ~ u
$500 .t...s,.k aa.asi NJ al haNkAln nRtAA|