The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-29
KANSAS IS FIRST.
CobuHn Tells Land show Visitors Of
States Resources.

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 29.-Wednes-
day was Kansas Day at the Kansas
City Land Show and the afternoon vas
devoted to addresses by Kansans. ms
visitors were welcomed in an address
by Mayor D. A. Brown
F. D. Coburn. secretary of the state
board of agriculture of Kansas, dls-
cussed the question Agricultural Re
sources of his state He was followed
by J. H Miller, of Kansas Agricultural
| college, at Manhattan
Charles I. Zirlle. president OF the
Kansas Association of Real Estate
dealers. gave an illustrated lecture dur
ing the afternoon.
Mr. Coburn said in part:
Beware of the Jayhawker who asks
YOU simple questions. In your large
egoti; you may deliberately discuss
some proposition on which he is much
better posted than you, since upon the
wall of many Kansas farm house
hangs a college diploma Also do not
talk in condescending manner of the
"toiling masses to the man in the
oyeralls. It might interest you to later
ascertain that he has a thousand acres
of fat land and enough good hard coin
in the First National to buy you and
sell you and forget to tell his wife
about it, Walk softly in Kansas, for
there the law of appearances has gone
glimmering.
Kansas stands first over all as the
producer of winter wheat. and bread
an pastry made from its f1ours are de-
manded and Toasted upon by the cpl
cures of two continents Her pre-
eminence in this is so conspicuous as to
leave with the superficial an impress
sion that wheat must be her chief
source of wealth, yet in the last two
decades the corn crops have out-valued
the wheat by more than 100000, 900, or
% per cent.
In the 10 years, ending with 1910,
Kansas raised more wheat. hard, soft
winter and spring, than any other
state, or an aggregate of $50, 100000
bushels This far exceeded the yield Of
her nearest competitor and was worth
at home 1854. 55s, 900. In the past twelve
years, as shown by the government re-
ports Kansas has raised more wheat
than any other state by $1,000, 900
bushels.
IN corn Kansas is a Millionaire. In
the last twenty years the state has
raised g. O09. 646. 905 bushels, worth on the
farms where grown over 81 ,041 084, 985.
Corn is our monarch cereal and The
barometer of our prosperity Besides
the foregoing. we raised in the twenty
years $107, DOC, 900 worth of Kaffir-corn
a health-gi giving delicacy for man and
beast, of which the farmers of most
other states are pitifully ignorant
After all. the pleasant scene to con-
template is the situation Of the future
Born WITHIN those parallels
where Natures prodigality in gifts of
earth and air and sky, of seed time and
harvest, of energizing days and repose-
full nights has largest manifestation; in
an atmosphere electric with wholesome
ness for physical, moral and mental
well-being; with a parentage in which
has blended the best of the robust, the
venturesome, the coolly masterful and
the uplifting blood of all the worthier
transmitted by the alchemy
of the centuries; of a statute proven by
all tests most enviable for achievement
in peace or in war
Beneficiary of a past richer than fell
to Gar or Caesar, and looking out with
enlightened vision upon a future pre-
senting promise and possibility In which
are coined a contamination and cls3fni-
nation of all the best for which man
kind has wrought since time began, this
kansan will typify the fruition of the
ages Surely the product of such an
environment and such an age, so rich
in opportunities. should be counted the
most enViabIe of Gods creations