The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-26

their old state stepped in with new
record breaking agricultural exploits
in 1909. 1t will only be what 1--WE
expected" when they are told that
| reached a total of 147,0OO,OOO bushels
and was worth $S3,00O,000. They will
cheer when the Kansas wheat figures
of S1,000,000 bushels, worth $76,OOO-
600, are read, and ask again, whats
the matter with Kansas" when they
learn the total bank deposits in the
state have reached s1S2,OOO,00O, an
increase of $11S,000,000 in the last
| ten years.
''The Where of the Wheat
Perhaps Mr.. Coburn will quote from
his pamphlet, 1.-The Where of the,
| Wheat" in which he tells that the
state is not only the greatest wheat
raising state in the union, but/fhat
one county has grown almost z 200, 900
bushels of the grain in a siHgle sea-
son-"more than was produced in the
same year in the whole state of Texas
or in North Carolina and ex-
ceeding by 100000 bushels the ag-
| gregate wheat of New England. Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Ne
| vada, New Mexico and Wyoming
Mr. COburn also has been asked to
tell something of the corn crops of
Kansas which he has written of in
The Corns That Kansas Farmers
! Have" where he says:
the last twenty years the state has
| raised 3,OS7,239,945 bushels, worth on
the farms where grown over $912,-
969.601
In Kansas corn is the monarch
cereal and prosperity's barometer. and
WhoSoever will NAV come
The Kansas hog will receive his
tribute from Coburn. who already has
eulogized him in these words:
IN Aansas the hog finds the favored
Zene-nis Ell Dorado-and here he al
ways makes both ends meat; for Kan
| sas is corn orchard parked with
| grasses and fragrant with the bloom of
aHalfa- the greatest forage plant
youchsafed by Providence to men grow
| ing here in profusion elsewhere I'M
known. Hence it is that Kansas pos
sesses more of these latest model, self
| lubricating mortgage removers than all
New England and Is other states and
| territories.
What Uncle Sam SAYS.
| Uncle Sam, our foremost connoisseur
OF pork, but with no especial partiality
| for Kansas. recorded in a report for
January, 1907, that the Kansas hogs
were worth per capiter' Is Der cent
more than the Missouri hog, SO per cent
more than the Kentucky hog. Sc per
cent more than his Virginia compatriot.
| 81 per cent more than the Arkansas hog
| and 148 per cent more than FIorfda's
| favorites.
THE Kansas hog in his sphere, typi-
flying the good. the true, and the beau
tiful, is joy even to the Hebrew,
| and. like the state that lends him as
a solace to humanity, is in but the
| morning of his career His one pass
port, everywhere demanded and always
sufficient for entire to presidents. poten-
! tates, or peasants is Kansas on the
rind.'
/ Mr.. Coburn will not be allowed to
| stop without mention of the Kansas al
falfa, which he has described in this
way:
Alfalfa furnishes the protein to con-
! struct and repair the brains of states
men, build up the muscles and bones OF
the warhorse and give his rider sinews
of iron. 1t causes the contented COW
tc yield the creamy milk, the pigs to
grunt with satisfaction, the hen to cac-
kle at her lay. and the turkey to COB
BILE and be gay