THE EDITOR'S DRAWER. 



KANSAS proposes to increase her population by 

 a million, and there can be no doubt that she will 

 be successful. Press and people are all working 

 enthusiastically in the common cause, the clergy 

 included. Various plans are being vigorously 

 pushed to induce immigration to the State, and if 

 the advantages to settlers there are not generally 

 known throughout this country and Europe, it 

 cannot be said to be the fault of the newspapers, 

 the various committees, the State officers and con- 

 gressmen, and the railroads. A most enterprising 

 feature of the whole movement is the Million 

 Club's exhibition train, which is a traveling ad- 

 vertisement all over the United States. It con- 

 sists of six cars, bearing the choicest fruits, veg- 

 etables, and products of the State, every county 

 being represented in the exhibits. Mayor Hook 

 of Leavenworth was in charge, and Governor Mor- 

 rill and many leading citizens of the common- 

 wealth accompanied the train as far as Kansas 

 City. One of the cars is fitted up as a handsome 

 reception room, and levees are given at every im- 

 portant town and city stopped at, no opportunity 

 being lost to talk up the merits of Kansas while 

 displaying her almost unlimited resources. 



YAKIMA is well written up in a handsome 

 pamphlet entitled " Irrigation, With an Example 

 of Its Application in the Arid Regions of Western 

 America," issued as a reprint from the Journal of 

 the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. A. B. Wyck- 

 off is the author. 



AT the annual meeting of the Texas State Wool 

 Growers' Association at San Angelo, resolutions 

 were adopted, unanimously, declaring for a pro- 

 tective tariff on wool. The president's address was 

 devoted almost wholly to a plea for a protective 

 tariff. 



TIME was, and not so long ago, either, when life 

 and property were nowhere safe in Texas, but that 

 time has gone by. Texas is emancipated, no bet- 

 ter proof of which can be offered than the manner 

 in which she squelched the prize fighters. No 

 wonder that settlers are flocking into the new 

 Texas to develop her rich resources. 



THE Nebraska State Irrigation Association meets 

 at Sidney on the 17th for a three-days session. 

 The recent decision of the State Supreme Court 

 in regard to mill dam rights will be considered in 

 all its bearings. Full delegations are expected. 



As TO the future of the hog crop, Western Swine- 

 herd says: "It would seem that prices in the pork 

 market are at the bottom. The cholera is deci- 

 mating herds over a great extent of territory, and 

 from the infected regions (mostly Illinois and 

 Iowa) everything marketable is being sent out and 

 no attempt made to build up reduced herds. This 

 cannot but be followed by a shortage of hogs six 

 and twelve months hence." 



IT is suggested that hogs do not have cholera 

 when pastured on clover. Another correspondent 



says: "Hogs that are fed raw onions will not have 

 the cholera, and children that eat raw onions 

 will not have the diphtheria. 



A SUMMARY of Department of Agriculture esti- 

 mates gives the acreage and production in the 

 United States for 1895 as of wheat 33,944,850 acres 

 and 424,231,000 bushels, and of corn 81,990,800 

 acres and 2,161,357,000 bushels. In 1894 there were 

 1,212,770,052 bushels of corn. 



FOR the first nine months of 1895 the imports of 

 the United States exceeded those of the same 

 months in 1894 by $97,480,000. The imports this 

 year exceeded the exports by $43,000,000. We 

 have thus far exported less gold than last year, 

 but we have exported $100,000,000 in bonds. 



CORN, and its future, is discussed in an exhaust 

 ive paper by C. Wood Davis, of Peotone, Kan. 

 In his opinion prices are not likely to advance 

 either very rapidly or to a higher level. Only a 

 few years ago cottonseed was a waste product of 

 the Southern plantation, but it is even now an 

 important factor in the industrial problem. Mr. 

 Davis shows that it is supplanting the product of 

 some 4,000,000 acres of corn. 



BREADSTUFFS, according to R. G. Dun & Co., 

 declined over 20 per cent, from the end of May 

 to the end of August, and are still down ; prices 

 of meat, 10 per cent ; dairy products, iruits and 

 vegetables, 23 percent, and other food, including 

 sugar, tea and coffee, liquors, spices and fish, only 

 2 per cent. All clothing rose over 10 per cent, 

 including boots and shoes, while iron and steel 

 products rose about 32 per cent. 



MONTANA people do not look with favor on the 

 sale of the great Anaconda mining and smelting 

 properties there to the Rothschilds. The latter 

 seem desirous of controlling the copper market of 

 the world, and if they saw fit to shut down the 

 Anaconda mines, 10,000 men would be thrown out 

 of employment in Butte and Anaconda. 



THE Northwestern immigration convention, just 

 held at St. Paul, has proven suggestive, and a like 

 gathering for the far Western States is urged as 

 preliminary to an active immigration campaign. 



GOVERNOR HUGHES, of Arizona, is urging upon 

 Congress an amendment of the Carey Arid 

 Land bill so that the Territories shall be included 

 in its provisions. 



THE Texas State Irrigation Convention was 

 largely attended and the proceedings and utter- 

 ances indicate a pushing and progressive people, 

 who are determined to develop every resource of 

 their lands. 



THE folly of urging the sudden extensive culti- 

 vation of any one crop by a considerable number 

 of people, is shown by the surplus of potatoes this 

 season. This was done last spring by certain 

 farmers' organizations. These farmers will doubt- 

 less diversify their crops next season. 



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