On Aug. 26, 1902, the Lawrence Journal editorialized: “‘Kansas will have no peaches this year except those which she borrows from her neighbors,’ declares the Topeka Herald. This remark shows that it is easy for a Kansas man to be mistaken, even about Kansas things. Down in southern Kansas the other day, the writer of this picked form the trees great yellow peaches, with pink cheeks that would make even a Kansas girl powder a little to match, and with fuzz on them that would make the young dude with an incipient mustache envious. And they were good, too; jeminy, but they were good! The luscious promise that they gave when the eye first rested upon them was more than made good when the nectar gushed from their punctured sides, and part of it escaped down the corners of the eager mouth of one who had lost hope of seeing a real peach on a real tree this year. But Kansas has ’em, perhaps not a plenty, but mighty good. Which goes to show that one-half of Kansas doesn’t know what the other half is doing.”