The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-12
Western Kansas Farmers Re-
jOiee Over Crop Prospects.
Stories of Damage by Cold
Weather Are Untrue.
SYRACUSE is THE HUB
German Farmers Have Planted
Thousands of Acres.
Have Used the Purest and Best
Seed Obtainable.

Syracuse, Kan, Jan. 12,-That the
wheat has suffered from the recent
cold wave and has been badly damag-
ed in consequence. is a story which
comes from the east but which is not
generally believed by our farmers so
far as local fields are concerned. The
local conditions have carefully been in
CURED into and from reports received
from the southwest counties the wheat
growers are in the best of spirits. Those
who have watched past seasons the
closest in this locality say that the
prospects for wheat were never better
for southwest Kansas than at the pres
ent moment.
Though the drilling of wheat was
interrupted by the early freeze. the
last week of the old year, was so warm
that 1t opened up the fields and set the
drills to going again. The fall rains
ture into the ground to depth of at
least Is inches in the sod and from
8 to feet in the cultivated ground.
The total acreage of wheat sown in
Hamilton, Stanton and Morton coun-
ties is largely in excess of former years
and the prospects never were better.
German Farmers Head List.
In all probability the German farm
ers of Hamilton county will head the
list for wheat drilled this fall. Mr..
Samuel Yaggy, who Is farming on as
large a scale as anyone In this end
of the state has shown his faith IN
the country and the season by putting
in 1,13S acres in Hamilton, Stanton and
Morton counties.
His largest field in Stanton county
contains 500 acres of growing wheat
Most of the 1,138 acres is planted with
No. hard Turkey Red wheat testing
81 pounds to the busheL One hundred
acres was drilled with pure KnarkoV
wheat, the variety recommended by the
agricultural department at Washing
ton for the plains country.
In testing the different kinds of wheat
best adapted to the uplands, Mr.. Yaggy
purchased the best wheat procurable
paying as high as 81 per busnel Tor
some of it. This year he has planted
only pure high-bred seed and expects
to make a Speciality of high-grade
wheat for the uplands
Samuel Yaggy Farms $500 Acres.
Mr.. Yaggy is improving some $500
acres out here in these three western
counties which together with his land
in Finney and Edwards county or this
state made him a total of $500 acres
to farm and look after the past year.
Having lived on a farm the business is
not new to him. While he has one
of the best law offices in the west and
is a busy al1-round man he has not
forgotten the duty of a land holder to
located. His farms are all comfort
ably improved and run on system
that insures success.
1t would be a good thing for this
country if more people who have large
tracts of land would follow Mr.. Yag-
gys example in having their places
improved. The large tracts of uncut
tivated land held by non-residents
make it harder for the development
of the country which is left to the
homesteaders dotted here and there.
If the people who own this vacant
land expect to benefit by the settle
ment of the country they ought to be
willing to help by improving little
on their own places.
Hamilton County Farmers Happy.
Every acre of ground in cultivation,
every fence, well, and every building
out on these prairies adds to the
progress and development of the
country. A railroad is going TO help
it nightly, but there are improves
ments which somebody must make
before people can live on the land,
and every improvement encourages
another.
The present season is full of en-
couragement to those who want to
put their lands under cultivation.
Competent workmen can be found
anywhere all of the time all over this
country, who will attend to putting in
crops and will be glad for the work.
The coming year will be one of the
greatest crop years in the history of
in the wheat belt by next fall. Our
broom-corn market has already made
US famous. Our people are prosper
Gus and happy. We expect to double
our population in 1910. Watch US
grow"