The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-13
RAILROAD NEWS
Kansas Number of 'sEarth" Is
Distributed in State.
Santa Fe Publication Tells of
Agriculture.
SPICY ARTICLE BY F. D. COBURN
Many Other Kansas Men Write
for Rail Magazine.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

The current issue of Earth" the in
teresting magazine of the southwest.
published by the Santa Fe and EDITED
by F. L. Vandegrift, is called the Kan
sas number. Photographs of scenes IN
Kansas cities, in Kansas fertile valleys
and on Kansas fruitful prairies are re-
produced together with many articles
by prominent Kansans including r u.
Coburn. secretary of the state board of
agriculture
The leading editorial explains:
Kansas and Her Famous Crops
Kansas has the call in this number OF
The Earth, especially Kansas where
runs the Santa Fe in the Southwest.
and the leading article is contributed
by Foster Dwight Coburn, secretary of
the state board of agriculture His
contribution, as everything else he
writes. be it a book, brochure, or post
card is brimful of crop statistics. writ
ten in a style Enthusiastically his
own Wasting no space, he puts INTO
200 words. more information of kan
sas agriculture than the ordinary
writer could say in 5000. For when Co
burn writes of Kansas. it is out of the
fuIIness of the heart, entering his sub
ject sure of his ground, and with a
knowledge which may not be Salnsald
In this article, he tells where the
foremost crops of wheat have been
grown in the state. and of the march
of this cereal westward, even to the
counties of the upper Arkansas valley
For example, in single season, one
county grew more wheat than all OF
Texas produced in the same year, or of
anv one of twenty-three other states.
Two counties in five seasons grew 3d.
500. 900 bushels.
He tells of the great indian-corn
counties, one in a single year growing
5000 600 bushels. He tells of Butler
county, where the greatest area of
kaffir-corn in the world is planted; of
Seward and Stevens. where the railway
has not come yet. beating the rest of
the state in milo-maize; of Stevens,
growing the most broomcorn; of Butler,
again. leading in beef cattle, and Reno.
Sumner, and Butler great rivals in the
production of mules; of F'inney. Ford,
Meade. Barber, and Comanche leading
in alfalfa, and so on through the whole
catalogue of agriculture.
He closes with water, and writes of
the pump, which has come to spread
artificial irrigation over valley and up
land: not emitting the part the Santa
Fc railway has had in encouraging de-
Velopment.
il one by Ralph H. FaXon, editor of
the Garden City Telegram. who writes
of the pump and the abundant water
for irrigation it lifts cheaply. The
pump has come, not especially to save
the upper valley, for canals from rivers
are performing their part; but to lift
and make use oe water lost in the
depths of the sands, the underf1ow. and
spread it far and away, to nourish soil
which. without it, does not produce its
maximum of abundance.
Other articles by Kansas men in this
edition are by c. NJ. NiqUette and I. L.
Diesem, pioneers of irrigation by the
pump in Finney county and E. H.
Elliott of Haskell county.
However, the edition is not devoted
m VIII nv7Jxr
turn to lead. One article is by z. E.
Black, secretary of the Plainview
CTexas) Chamber of Commerce. It is
a story of the P~nhandle and South
Plains country, especially of Hale
county, where, as in southwestern Kan
sas, the pump has come to irrigate the
soil
New Mexico Arizona. and the Gulf
Coast country of Texas, also, are repre-
scented in this number.