• SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART I. 77 



enormous corn crops which they could not dispose of, and compared with 

 the price of coal, corn was cheaper as fuel than was coal, and it was 

 being burned all through the western and middle part of the state. It 

 seemed an abnormal condition of things, and Governor Charles Robinson, 

 who was one of the ablest men Kansas ever had, was very much ex- 

 cited, and he went around the country delivering addresses on the ques- 

 tion of what shall we do with our corn. About the same time a very 

 distinguished and brilliant woman was very much distressed, over the 

 condition of the better half of humanity, and the young girls in par- 

 ticular, and she was addressing the people of Kansas on the question of 

 •'What shall we do with our daughters?" Some way finally suggested that 

 both of these great problems might be solved, and gave the answer. "Let 

 us feed our corn to our daughters." That seemed a sure way of solving 

 the problems, but it also had a great deal of the ludicrous about it. 



Now there is a school of economic philosophers in this country who 

 occupy practically the same condition and say that we must so balance 

 manufacturers and agricultural productions, as that the agriculturalist 

 will use up all which the manufacturers produce, and the manufacturer 

 eat all the farmers produce, and so we will get rich trading with each 

 other. But I do not think that can stand the test. We must have an 

 outside market, not only for the agricultural products of this country, but 

 for the great manufacturing interests of this country. I believe that the 

 destiny of this Nation is to take the lead, the fact of the matter is, it has 

 already taken the lead, so far as feeding the rest of the world is con- 

 cerned, and it will soon take the lead in the manufacturing interests ot 

 the world. But we cannot do it by simply swapping jack knives with 

 each other. We have got to go outside. Let us look just for a moment 

 at the comparative conditions of the livestock interests here and abroad. 

 Monday morning I happened to pick up the "Livestock World", one of 

 our reliale Livestock papers for last Saturday. Here was the first 

 heading which struck my eye. 



CATTLE RECEIPTS EXCESSIVE. 



Big Flood of steers caused a de- ceeded 33,000 head, a circumstance 



cline of 25 to 40c in medium cattle, that never occurred before, for dur- 



Close to 93,000 cattle arrived this ing the time when the big weeks 

 week. The record total receipts w^as were recorded in the past, one or the 

 not broken by about 2500 head, but other of these days were comparative- 

 there never was a week in the his- ly light. Local dealers are at a loss 

 tory of the cattle market when the to account for this sudden bulge In 

 supply of native beef steers was so receipts There was no logical rea- 

 liberal. Offerings every day in the son for it except that the cattle were 

 week were exceptionally large, show- in the country and that feeders were 

 ing that the movement to market tired of shoveling into them high 

 was no spasmodic accident. Both on priced corn. 

 Monday and Wednesday receipts ex- 



