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trouble can test the correctness of these views for him- 
self. 
“We expect that the most important and positive re- 
sults will follow a well-devised system of protection. It 
would exert a controlling influence over all farm opera- 
tions. A judicious system of protection would be at- 
tended with the most beneficent results, while under cer- 
tain other conditions it might be attended with disaster. 
“ FAOTS. 
“ All this, some will say, is theory. But Kansas in 1874 
gave us, along the line of the M. K. and T. R. R., and in 
other parts of the state, some important facts in this di- 
rection. There are many parts of the state where corn 
was an entire failure. In a few localities corn matured 
a fair crop, even in exposed conditions. And there were 
other localities where corn yielded a crop only under 
very favorable conditions of culture and protection. It 
is these localities that are most interesting to us now. 
Space will permit at present the presentation of only a 
few of these cases reported to me by Robert Miliken, H. 
E. Van Deman, and others. 
““We have here represented a corn-field, Isaac Smith’s, 
fourteen miles south of Emporia. A B, corn-field, at C 
the road passes through the timber, leaving an opening 
