The Globe-republican., 1910-06-09
ONE HUNDRED MILES OF WHEAT

siastic reception. Secretary Coburn
was transferred there to the car, ol
Alb Berger, a handsomely decorated
large touring car and with several
additional cars from Ford the com-
pany drove south east to Bucklin,
seeing some Of the finest fields
Of wheat in the county on the way.
At Bncklin dinner was taken. II
was proposed here to give Secretary
Coburn . rest, but il was found that
he was about the only person In the
crowd that did not need rest, 90 every
body moved onward. From Bucklin
to Kingsdown there was upwards Of
II automobiles in the line. all loaded
with pa. sengsrs and the trip was
made through a fine farming commu-
nifty.
Ford was .gain visited on the re
turn trip, and from the drive
went westward. The official photo
grapher. F. M. Steele, took views Of
the crowd in BuckliD, and Ford and
at the R. P. Frazier place west Of
Ford. Mr.. Steele got fne picture Of
Sec. Coburn standing waist deep in
a wheat field. Another picture. Of
Secretary Coburn, Mr.. Moler and
Mr.. Frazier was taken here, also one
Of the entire party. Mr.. Frazier has
I400 acres Of wheat in that vicinity,
which ought TO make somewhere DO
tween a 100000 to 100000 crop.
There was one feature Of the entire
trip, which the writer believes could
happen only in Ford county. While
everybody was enthusiastic and hap
py. and proud at the great showing
the county is making, there was not q
word " Dragging or boasting OF
booming done during the day.
The uniformity Of the fields shows
two things that are very favorable TO,
the continued success Of this county
in agriculture. One is that the soil
is uniformly good, and the other ID
that the men who till the soil are
good farmers. Mr.. Mohler stated on
the trip that he believed there is nc
better agricultural county in Kansas
than Ford county, and looking at the
great fields he continued: eff you
could stop all Of the land seekers that
come west, and show them this coun
ty, not one Of them would want to 60
further"
In speaking Of the trip Saturday
evening Secretary Coburn said:
each trip along this valley sug
gests anew-even to person familiar
with it, suggests not only its progress
but it's unsupported possibilities. To-
days ride through and over Ford
county 10 an example OF all these.
"For instance we saw or could
have seen perhaps $4,000 acres Of
the hard winter wheat for which Kan
sas is SO famous, and nearly every
acre Of it ranking away up towards
the hundred mark in condition. To
a casual observer the fields seem al
most limitless, yet there is unques-
tionably untitled land available for as
much more just as good. This is a
county that only fifteen years ago had
less than $1,000 acres Of both winter
and spring wheat, up to within re-
cent period was supposed to be in a
longitude entirely too far west for
corn, and fifteen years ago the farm
ers planted less than $500 acres, and
now they doubtless have 5O.OOOlacres
or more. better in stand and condi
,! ton than any other I have seen this
year.
"The Arkansas valley, Of course. is
famous for Its alfalfa, and the 10000
acres Of it growing in Ford county is
certainly the peer Of that onIanylsim-
liar area in any county. This, too.
without any forcing by irrigation.
"From glance OF the figures Of
1903 and those Of fifteenyears before,
I see that in the decade and q half
the county's horses and steer cattle
have trsbled in number, it's milch