Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1912-03-07


com mnnIties. but thplr fnhabitants
can remove and never desire 70 re-
turn. Thsy hunger for the horizon.
Tha1 make new homes and endure
no homesickness. But no genuine
Kansan can smisrate. He may wan
der. He may roam. He may travel.
He may 90 elsewhere. but no other
state can claim him as citizen.
Once naturalized. the allegiance can
never be foresworn.'
As Captain Joe Waters has said.
i"Prlvatl0n and vicissitude in Kansas
have lowered into blooms that smell
Of prosperity and happiness. No
millionaire, mendicant, Mormon or
mugwump in all our borders; all Is
now buckwheat cakes and maple
syrup. There Is nothing in the heart
OF Kansan to vinegar Ihis lips.
He is the best man In the solar sys-
tenn, but the women folks are still
better than he is; he has the great
est civilization of the world. the
greatest prosperity. and the utmost
attainable human happiness; he has
the most equitable laws OF any state
or nation. The mud on his boots
that stuck to them when he first
looked in hope at the stars is there
now, and the scars of past conflict
with nature and the MIssourian show
freshly-healed cicatrices on his per-
SON."
Beware OF the Jayhawker who
asks you simple questions. In your
large egotism you may deliberately
discuss some proposition on which
he is much better posted than you.
since upon the wall of many a Kan
sas farm house hangs college d.
pIoma. Also do not talk in conde-
scending manner Of the "toiling
masses" to the man in Overalls. IL
might interest you to later ascertain
that he has 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 1t. 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 and pastry made from its
flours are demanded and Toasted
upon by the epicures of two conttn-
ents. Her pre-eminence in this is
SO conspicuous as to leave with the
superficial an impression 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 $2OO,OOO,OOO or 26 per
cent.
other states grow winter wheats
but the unapproachable speciality OF
Kansas is her hard winter wheat, and
its annual production the state has
led for years, to such extent in fact,
as to be well-nigh monopolistic, and
the flours from this are superior to
Others, wheresoever made in Ameri-
ca. and conceded equal to those Of
Hungary. In 1900 the yield was
sixty per cent greater than that Of
any other state, and but little less
than one-sixth of the total wheat
of the United States.
In 1901 Sumner county was credV|
tied with yield of 6,S12,1O2 BUSH
els of wheat, or more than was pro-
duced the same year in the whole
state OF Texas, or in North Carolina,
'or In any one Of twenty-five other
states and territories, and exceeding
by over 100000 bushels the ag-
gregated wheat of New England,
Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey,
Nevada New Mexico and Wyoming.
The acreage of wheat in Kansas in
1907 was more than the entire land
areas of Rhode Island, Delaware,
Connecticut and Porto Rico combined.
The yield was more than the wheat
grown that year in all New England,
Illinois, Iowa and eleven additional
states and territories. The records
show that in the five years ending
with 1910, Kansans put in their bins
something more than 3s5,OOO,0OO
bushels of wheat, worth on the farms |
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