The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-07-10
THE CROP PROSPECT THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
A YEAR OF PLENTY IN KANSAS.

Of the soil were as good as they are
now. Our farmers are already pretty
nearly through with the harvest of win
ter wheat. From our own observations,
and from the universal testimony of the
State, we judge that the yield per acre
will be large. Some pieces are spoken
of as likely to go as high as thirty-five
and even forty bushels to the acre. These
are very large yields, and will probably
be found to be over-estimated but we
should not be surprised if the average
production of winter wheat to the acre in
our State this year would reach to TWEEN
ty or twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Spring wheat looks finely, and large
breadth of it has been sown. Its Yield,
however, viii be somewhat diminished
by the rust and the chinch bug, which
are doing damage in some localities.
Oats never looked finer anywhere.
The growth of straw is very large and
the heads are heavy and we'll filled. The
crop will be the largest ever raised in
the State.
Corn is the great staple of Kansas, and
corn bids fair this year to be tremend-
Gus crop. More acres have been plant
ed than ever before and the fields never
gave better promise than now. Even
which is usually precarious
crop, bids fair to turn out heavily.
Meanwhile there is yet good deal of
old corn in the country which is being
shipped daily in large quantities. An
of corn means plenty of meat
beef and pork.
Potatoes are getting to be one of our
most important crops. We are already
exporting them in large quantities. They
never looked more promising than they
do now. We shall have large surplus
this year after supplying the one hun
dred thousand new settlers that have
come in.
Grass, Hungarian grass, sweet pota-
toes, hemp, sorghum and the other mi
nor crops all look finely.
The fruit prospect was never before
as good. The peach trees are literally
loaded down with fruit the grape vines
are already green with the clusters OF
young grapes apple trees are thickly
studied with young fruit. The reputa-
ton of Kansas as fruit growing State
will be largely enhanced by the product
this season.
The year is a year of plenty. The
wonderful capacities of our soil are ex-
hibiting themselves in the most crafty
ing manner. The new settlers who have
come among us are delighted, and are
writing back to their friends to come on
also. Next year Will witness a larger
immigration than this. Prosperity at
tends the labors of industry and Kan
sas is on the road to wealth and power.
Republican.
The June report of the Agricultural
Bureau shows that the increase of Win
ter wheat in Missouri is so per cent,
and in Kansas % per cent, and that
there is a general average increase OF
Is to 20 per cent. The crop promises
to be the best ever known.
There was a larger breadth of wheat
than usual sown this spring, and pres
ent prospects indicate an unusually
large aggregate crop. AS for corn, all
unite in saying that they have never
seen so much planted in any previous
year, nor looking so promising as now
Oats look tOlerably we'll, and will be
fully an average crop.
An unusual breadth was planted in
potatoes, and the crop never looked
better.
A large amount of prairie was brok-
Ell last year, and as it is all titled this
year adds much to our area of crops
There is much more being broken tlli:
year than ever before in one year, show
ing the faith our farmers have i'll the
productiveness of the soil. The wealth
er has been favorable for farming, sc
far, and wheat and oats may be consid
cred safe. Corn and potatoes will neeC
an occasional shower for four weeks
to constellation Free Press.
CoRN.-The Medina New Era says
E'The farmers are busily engaged pillow
ing their corn the last time, and cleaner
fields or more even growth of corn We
never have seen before. We heard I
person offering to wager that corr
would not be over ten cents per bushel
after gathering time, and 100 bushels O
the new corn was sold by NJ. Z. Ken
drick, to be delivered when gathered il
the fall, at fifteen cents. If corn is thi
cheap here next fall, immigration viii
roll like living tide in upon US. There
is plenty of ROOM"
We have been shown by the editor o
the Kansas Farmer, a stalk of winte
wheat, cut in field in the valley of TIT
Verdigris, in Southern Kansas, which
measures four feet and six inches il
hight. 1t was cut on the 26th of Ma!
last. The head is over five inches long
A. II. Cook, agent of the Chicago, AL
ton & st. Louis Railroad, brought it up
He saws he saw whole fields fully a
high as this one. He is delighted will
that section, and says he never saw any
thing to compare with it.-COnSeTc
attire.
The Paola Republican says:
Within a circle of three miles of Pa
ola there have been opened up since
| last November, sixty-three new farms
all fenced in and having comfortably
dwellings on them.
A great breadth of prairie land j
being broken up, preparatory to sowin:
| fall wheat. We presume there will no
be less than two hundred thousant
acres of land sown with wheat.
If ANYBODY wants to know what ha
been done with all the breaking pillow
sold by our merchants this season, jus
| let him look at the thousands of acre
of prairie turned upside down in al
parts of the county; and to ascertain
what use has been made of the grea
number of stirring, double and singh
shovel plows, and cultivators they hav
sold, he has only to take view of tn
vast fields of corn spread out like greer
| oceans in every direction, and as higl
as a mans head and last, but not least
if he wonld know what is to be don
with the hundred reaping machine
sold and on hand for sale, let him cas-
his eye over the hmitless fields of gold
en- grain Just ripening for the harvest
and the tale is told.-PottGsoatOnai Ga
zette.
RAINs.-We have had an abundanc
of rains lately, and everything has bee
propitious for our farmers this yea
Wheat and oats are being harvested
Z and corn is looking finely. The farm