Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-10-04 | Page 17 | Kansas Waste Lands Produce Excellent Crop

KANSAS ANSAS WASTELANDS WASTE WASTELANDS LANDS PRODUCE lANDS EXCELLENT L CROP DGE DOE CITY Kan Ran Oct 3 AP jL 5 waste of ot sand hills and rain rain- pa hed covered with tumble weeds eds scrub brush and buffalo tr such ss-such such is the picture oft ort drawn cf western Kansas that section of th the Sunflower state that lies west one-hundredth one meridian ut how different is the western T Kansas ansas of ot today True there may be found adobe houses here and andt the t there e e the fast-fading fast tracks made b the ox-drawn ox wagons of ot the pushing westward over the Santa anta Fe trail may ma still sUll be 1 at ot several places the Jack Jack- Jackrabbit i f rabbit rushes 1 ce the wind over j I I h prairie the g f nibbles 1 1 t there are the great 1 op Open en rolling prairies the stark sand taid a d hills hilts and the dr dry sandy I 1 I washes I that overnight may run deep d ep with flood water from a sudden sud sud- d den cloudburst i I I l Over ver ver all this western country countr i however has come a gradual change I es the cold steel of the plowshare rushing gushing ever westward has turned ander the buffalo sod and fitted the loll oll for diversified agriculture Last year r the twenty four counties corn com corn corn- this this' domain the meridian me- me y me-y produced field crops and livestock livestock livestock live live- stock products worth more than or per capita The Theland Theland Theland land yielded bushels of wheat worth nearly a greater yield than toon in any anyone one of thirty eight states tes