. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . GRAZING LANDS IN CHEROKEE ON HEUPHIS ROUTE. («9). HORTICULTURE IN KANSAS. BY HON. EDWIN TAYLOR. SECRETARY STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Eastern people, when they think of , picture to themselves a great reach of prairie, theportions under cultivation broken only by Walls of Corn, dotted with box-houses and dug-outs, wi
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . GRAZING LANDS IN CHEROKEE ON HEUPHIS ROUTE. («9). HORTICULTURE IN KANSAS. BY HON. EDWIN TAYLOR. SECRETARY STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. Eastern people, when they think of , picture to themselves a great reach of prairie, theportions under cultivation broken only by Walls of Corn, dotted with box-houses and dug-outs, withno shade, no flowers, no fruit. The only true feature in that picture, as applied to the established por-tions of the State, is the prairie. Where trees grow with such luxuriauce as here, It requires but a little time and effort to surroundthe home with groves and orchards — though where timber never grew before. Small-fruit culture in Kansas is favored by both soil and climate. Berries are over 90 per cent,water, and require much moisture to develop them. Where the clouds fail to produce this moisture, webring irrigation into play. In the eastern portions of the State, irrigation is seldom resorted to, the rain-fall there being greater than in many sections east of the Mississippi river. People accustom
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