The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-12-06
AGRICULTURAL.
Hemp,


We learn from the Leaven worth Bulletin,
that Mr.. Newman, of that city, has opened
the hemp trade, and that he has already
bought about $50 tons, large quantity of
which was raised in Kansas. He purposes,
if the farmers in the vicinity will only en-
courage him BY devoting proper share of
their attention to the cultivation of that sta
pie article of commerce. to erect the neces-
sary buildings for an extensive trade in it.
1t is said, by persons who have had
experience in the Guilty alton of hemp in the
Southern States, that there is no part of the
hemp growing regions there, that is su-
perior, in soil and the other conditions
favorable to the production of that crop, to
the Kansas valley. Why the farmers who
have settled along this river do not try the
crop, is mystery to US. IF they do not
know how to grow it experimentally, they
can very easily supply themselves with the
necessary information on that point by
reading the agricultural papers. Everything
that Is grown In this o. any other country,
gets hearing in our best agricultural Jour
nails. And now, since Missouri has con-
tributed so beautifully of contrabands to the
labor population of this State, skilled labor
ers can be employed at reasonable wages.
who can handle the crop intelligently from
the blowing of the land and the planting of
the seed, to the last touch preparatory to
marketing. There is great profit in the
cultivation of hemp, where it will grow well,
and where it can be SO easily marketed, as
1t may be, grown anywhere along this river.
1t IS very easy crop to raise. The
process is very simple, aud it costs no
more than it does to cultivate field of oats
so say writer's on the subject.
Mr.. Newman gives from $40 to $50 per
ton for it. We suppose that price is given
for it in the rotted state.-Ldwrence Journal.
How to Test the Quality of Wool.
Texas paper says: Take look of wool
from the sleeps back, and place it upon an
inch rule. If you can count from 80 to 80
of the spirals or folds in the space of al
inch, it equals 10 quality the finest Electo-
raj OF Saxony wool grown. Ofcourse, when
the number of spirals to the Inch diminishss,
the quality of the wool becomes relatively in
ferior. Many tests have been tried, but
this is considered the simplest and best.
Cotswold wool and some other inferior
woods do not measure nine spirals to the
inch. With this test, every farmer has in
bis possession knowledge which will en-
able him to form correct judgment of the
quality OF all xmas OF wool. There are
some woods which experienced wool growers
do not rank as wool, but as hair, on &C.
count of the hardness and straghtness of
the fiber.
Coal OIL DESTRUCTIVE TO VERM1N.-It
would seem that coaloil is destructive to all
kinds of vermin, mice as we'll as insects.
Not that it will kill mice, but drive them.
remove them from their haunts. By form
ing circle. of oil around the neck of calf,
says James Elwood, and along the back.
and applying it in few other places, il
will effect cure in few days. He ap-
piled it to two calves with entire success.
Others have had similar success with SINH
lar treatment. OF course, when applied in
the stable, the stable itself should be reno.
vated. And this should always be done
when cattle are turned to grass in the spring.
Try lit is said that sorghum may
be planted in the fall, and that it will grow
the coming spring as we'll as if then planted.
The fall planted Is much earlier, maturing
well in this climate, from three to four
weeks before that planted in the spring.
The ground should be prepared and the
seed planted as in spring, With. few
{ more TO the hill. Will some one try the ex-
. periment7 -
| At Autietam blacksmiths' tools, ham.