Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-14

Massachusetts, and Connecticrt. or
considerably more than the aggre-
gated output OF California. Colorado |
and Florida.
In corn Kansas 10 a billionaire. In
the last twenty years the state has
raised 5000, 646,SO6 bushels. worth
on the farms where grown over ST.
|O41, Os4.9s5. Corn is our monarch
cereal and the barometer Of our
prosperity. Besides the foregoing.
we raised in the twenty years s107,-
600 900 worth of kafir corn, health
giving deiicacy. for man and beast.
of which the farmers Of most other
states are FAITHFULLY ignorant.
Such figures as these all official,
disprove the beliefs entertained by
many OF the gullible to the effect
that Kansas Is much OF the time in
such q condition of aridity that cows
can live there only by sucking them
selves, her hogs must be soaked over
night to make them hold swill, and
that mourners have to be primed be-
fore they can weep at funeral.
Statements Of such a chararter are
as misleading and even more harmful
than those representing that other
extreme. whereby, to draw attention
to the fertility Of Kansas soil and
the bigness of its vegetable growths
IL IL averred that In Wichita three
policemen have been seen sleeping
on a single beet.
In Kansas the hog finds the ia
vored zone--his Eldorado-and it is
here that he always makes both ends
meat; for Kansas is corn orchard
parked with grasses and fragrant
with the bloom of alfalfa, in pro-
fusion elsewhere unknown. Hence
1t is that she possesses more of these
--latest model, self-lubricating mort
gage-removers than all New England
and fifteen other states and terri
tories. There is probably no other
region of the same area as Kansas
where the conditions of climate. soil,
food and care are more congenial
to the hogs health and wholesome
development, and he is nowhere
found so developed except among and
lby high order of people. High-class
swine are unknown and impossible
Iamong a low-class people. Kansas
Swine, coinage of Kansas grass, grain
and brain, in the world-arena ut
Chicago, and then at st. Louis, met
1.-THE world-beaters and beat them. She
has given Poland, China, Chester
County, Berkshire and New Jersey
Ia thousand years the lead and easily
ldistanced the namesakes of all.
The Kansas hog, in his sphere
IMPLYING the good, the true and the
beautiful, is Joy even to the He
brew and like the state that leads
; him as a solace to humanity, is in
but the morning of his career.
v.
Walter Neff, editor of the Drovers'
Telegram, and recognized as one Of
our profoundest students of zoology,
AYERS with truth that 1T IS hard to
understand how any Jew, even the
most orthodox, being acquainted
with the ebeneficence, commercially
and artistically, of the Kansas hog,
Jean fail to appreciate him. 1t Is one
Iof the misfortunes of evolution that
1.-THE Kansas hog should be cIassed
with the animal upon which Moses
laid the embargo. There is, perhaps
q nice question involved, which He
brew theologians doubtless have long
Isince discussed, as to whether the
lalfalfa hog, sweet of nature and of
flesh, cultured through association
with the benign atmosphere of Kan
sas and the cleansing delicacy and
uplifting inauguration of her alfalfa,
lean conscientiously be classed with
the wild hog OF antiquity.
No one who knows horses, no ne
who loves horses--and who does not
love horse?-need be told that
Joe Patchen, John r. Gentry and
Dan Patch, foremost equines of all
the ages and Observation-Disclosures
which have put their rivals in the
tortoise class, came out of Kansas,
and 1t took "the lamb that Kansas
had" to yield by several pound a
heavier years fleece than ever grew
in a like period on the back Of an
other sheep in the history Of the
world. He was the typical tame and
woolly Kansan.
4 Kansas is pre-eminently the home
of the Helpful Hen. 1t is in Kansas
that NV aiYunlv Iaving around ahe