Show In These United States Kaw River Has Stolen of Acre 17 Ac 5 re Farm ST. ST MARYS KANS When When Ferdinand Wild renewed his hiss subscription s recently to the St. St Marys Star he remarked wistfully wistfully Wistfully fully that he would be a lucky fellow if he could renew his land so A retired farmer now A in his seventies mid-seventies Mr Wild is is certain he stands first in the business busi busi- business business ness of surrendering priced high-priced soil to the Kaw river Back in 1918 when he bought the farm where he lives south of the river Mr Wild held title to acres of fertile bottom land on the i Wabaunsee county side of the riv riv- river river river er south of St. St Marys Since that time however the ins cave-ins and ero ero- erosion erosion ero- ero erosion sion have frisked him of all but 25 acres of the farm Up pd end and down the ungovernable stream he has neighbors who can recall losing 20 acres here and 40 acres over yonder as the swollen Kaw has taken its toll each spring sp ing and fall But Ferdinand believes ves he is in a class class' by himself His finest fittest land has vanished during the thelast thelast thelast last quarter ofa oVa of a century land century land that thai tha observers valued val ed at more m re than Across the river on this side he still has a hundred acres of good goodsoil goodsoil goodsoil soil that has rarely been clipped by cave But the record was al al- almost almost almost most as disastrous in hi 1945 Over Over- Overflows Overflows Overflows flows that came often during the high water last spring played an an- another another another other trick on philosophical Ferdi Ferdi- nand From the hundred good acres on the north side he raised a crop that looked like the fag-end fag of ofa ofa ofa a drouth season in the thirties mid mid thirties bushels of corn com Ferdinand has heard that the war years were great years for the farmer Maybe so maybe so he mut mut- mutters mutters mutters but which year and which farmer |