The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-13


and Irrigation exposition which opens
in the Coliseum building, Chicago, No
vember 20, and closes December 4, 1909
This exposition has taken on a ma
tional significance and promises to
bring under one roof a really compre-
hensive review of the splendid opportuni-
ties offered the ambitious, in the rapidly
developing south and west. 1t is to
be something more than prize pump
kin show; it is to be demonstration
of the newer agriculture which has dou-
bled the yield, increased the flavor and
multiplied the food value of the prod
ucts of the soil 1t is promised that the
results obtained by the irrigation of
| the arid country and the drainage OF
| the overwet will be set forth in a way
| that will interest and instruct all Who
| attend.
The great Coliseum building is being
decorated in a most lavish manner and
the space so divided and arranged that
the results obtained in the several sec
lions of the west and south may be
seen and understood.
Land Hungers That Are Known.
| The "return'to the. soil'' is on in earn
est, and the demand for farm land is
becoming more insistent every day.
Time was when farm could be had Tor
a song, but that time has passed. To-
day desirable acres command h1gh
prices in all the more thickly settled
sections, and the land, hungry man looks
to the newly developed country for pro
ftable investment. The irrigated val
| leys of the west are particularly at
tractive. Here few acres are sum-
Gent to support a family, and. proper
| w developed, 10 to 20 acres IS better
| than any insurance policy ever written
| The methods of preparing the soil
cultivating and developing fully, the
possibilities of a few acres. Will be
shown at the Chicago show.
| The broad acres of western Kansas
and Oklahoma and Panhandle and
south plains of Texas. the Las Vegas
country in New Mexico. all are attract
| ing attention The products grown
there. with normal ralnfall. pius seen
! tifc soil culture, compare favorably
with the best grown elsewhere.
This modern soil culture. the tools
used by the dry farmer, and the re-
suits obtained. all will be set forth for
l. and Illustrated at the land and irriga-
ton show.
| New Fruits That Have Come In.
The triumph iof the plant breeder,
who, through careful selection, n.y.
| bridization and cross-fertilization, has
produced fruits of delicious Havor,
great nutritive value and enormous
yield, will be shown IN the east Ior
! the first time.
| You will see the results produced by
Spencer, the developer of the seedless
apple; by Burbank, the wizard, who
| has developed a white blackberry, and
| a hundred other marvels, including
| the spineless cactus, whose fruit COM
bines the flavor of a peach, plum,
melon and a pineapple, all in one.
You will see the newly arrived pit
| less plum; the frost resisting citrange,
| which resembles an orange, but far
| surpasses it in beauty, tenderness and
flavor; the pomato, the fragrant, juicy
white tomato, and scores of other
strange new forms that have come
to delight the palate and enrich the
| grower.
New Methods That Are Used.
Among the most interesting and
| important exhibits will be the de-
| monstration of modern methods of
conserving the energy and fertility of
the soil. The newly discovered fer
tilizer that collects nitrogen from the
! atmosphere and stores it in the soil,
where the plants easily may secure it
when needed. The scientific methods
/ of the intensive farmer who forces
| the land to yield the most wonderful
results, also will be demonstrated.
i There will be exhibited the specially
designed machinery used by the irri-
] gationist, and the tools employed by