The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-10-01
KANSAS.
Its Farm PrOdacts-Fruits and Flowers
The Opinion Of an Illinois Observer.

KANSAS,
Its Farm PrOducts-Fruits and Flowers
The Opinion of an Illinois Observer.
Mr.. Emery, the proprietor OF the
Prairie Farmer, of Chicago, the lead
ing agricultural paper of the North
west, was present at our State Fair, ana
in the last number of his paper pub
fishes very full and valuable letter de-
scribing.what he saw there. His report
is of special importance, since it is the !.
view of disinterested outsider, and
practical and scientific agriculturist.
We publish below number of extracts
from his letter. The remainder of it is
taken up with report of the display of
horses, cattle. sheep, farm implements,
textile fabrics, etc, and is quite as COM
pIimentary in its terms as is the portion
we publish. Mr.. Emery says:
FARM PRODUCTS AND VEGETABLES.
The display in this department was
| to us unexpectedly large, being very
much greater than is usually seen at the
Illinois State fairs, and of quality very
superior, and embracing samples from
quite distant portions of the State, as
| IdF Oh Us IAiISWOtlu.
| carried off six first premiums on vege-
tables. This is quite out on the ''Great
/ American Desert" as the exhibitors IA
cetiOusly termed it. The samples of
corn were, many of them, quite ripe
ears, large and solid; the corn crop of
the State generally being represented
as excellent. We saw many fields i'll
the Kansas Valley quite ripe and some
already cut up, on which the yield would
| hn Tho SomnlnS nf wheat
were excellent, some white May, equal
| to any we ever saw in older States oats
of the various new kinds as well as old
ones, were shown by several, as were
buckwheat, rye, sc. The display of po-
| tatOes was large, nearly hundred lots
being shown, embracing all the new and
popular varieties. Onions, beets, toma-
toes, squashes, melons, cabbages, &c,
made up a grand display and one that
| spoke well for Kansas.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
| Cheese from four different establish
ments, and butter from many more,
made a good impression, which was
strengthened by tasting the samples.
| DOMESTIC.
Bread, crackers, preserved and canned
| fruit were out in force, and great inter-
est shown by the competitors in the
awards. The Kansas ladies have not
been idle while the men have titled the
! fields, but show by this exhibition that
they know how to provide for the inner
man.
| FRUITS AND FLOWERS.
It was in the fruit department the
Fair really excelled, and surpassed the
| expectations of those at distance, who
had been led to believe that Kansas was
a very uncertain and poor fruit State,
that the "Great American Desert" could
not either raise fruit or. vegetables to
advantage. But this exhibition must
forever put stop to all croakers in that
respect. The display demonstrated va
rieties which neither prove hardy nor
prolific in Northern Illinois, find in
Kansas congenial soil and climate, and
bear perfect fruit, both fair and large.
And if the collection that has been sent
to the American Pathological Society,
at Philadelphia is not a surprise, we
shall be mistaken. We were sorry not
to meet all the leading horticulturists of
the State; but some had gone to Phila-
delphia with the fruit, and some others.
who might have made fine display,
were not represented at all. We should
be glad to particularly mention each
exhibitor with his collection, but must
be content with the mention of n few
of the most prominent.
The peach crop of the State has been
, small, and but few samples were shown,
and those mostly of the Seeding varie-
ties. The past hard winter is thought
to have killed the buds.
Mr.. E. Barnes, of Vineland, exhibited
, forty varieties of apples, all choice spe-
. cimens among them the Missouri Pip
, pin, which he thinks the most profitable
apple in the State, Lowell, Porter, Ora
. venstein. Fall Wine, Mother, Maiden's
Blush, Rambo, II. /. Greening, Penn.
4 N Trrvsz
, Domino, Yellow Bellfiower, LOuan Ort-
ley, &c. We also noticed in his collec-
. tlon five varieties of pears, viz: The
Seckel, Bartlett, Duchesse D. Angou-
leme, Flemish Beauty and Bell Lucera-
tive also, splendid Concord and Dracut
Amber grapes. Mr.. b. has thirty acres
of grapes in full bearing, producing eS-
cellent fruit, mostly Concords.
Mrs. Lucinda Loar, from Leaven-
worth, had forty-twO varieties of APP
pies, showing in their size and quality,
the adaptability of her locality to apple
culture. Mrs. Loar is one of the live
women of Kansas, and understands her
business of fruit growing. She also
showed four varieties of pears. Mr.. ID.
Kinnear, also of Leaveworth, exhibited
sixty-one varieties of apples, nine of
pears, twelve of peaches, and one of
plums. c. b. Lines, of Wabaunsee,
Judge Hendry, of Lawrence, and AL
bert Gray, of Wyandotte, made fine
displays of pears. Rev. G. III. Lovejoy,
i, of Douglas county, has an orchard on a
|, north slope, protected by timber, and
showed some sixteen specimens of seed
, ling peaches, and forty three varieties
! of choice apples. He gives the Missou-
ri Pippin the preference over all, for
winter. AS specimen of bearing, he
!, showed the limb of a tree three feet
|. long, with two branches containing los
, well developed apples. Nearly one side
! of the hall was lined with branches,
: brought by different persons, showing
, the wonderful production of apples.
The display of grapes was large, and
made up by many exhibitors. Those
, grown and shown by Mr.. Walling, of
Lawrence, were especially fine and well
ripened.
The list of exhibitors could be large
ly extended, but enough has been said
! to give some idea of the fruit show.
AS a whole it would compare with that
of any of the older States.
The floral display was small-mostly
T flowers in pots, from few of the enter
prising people of Lawrence. The flow
ers were very tastefully and well ar
, ranged.
One morning we visited the orchard
of Messrs. Bracket Il Taylor, near
Lawrence. Their apple orchard, plant
, ed out in 1861 and 1862, presents one of
the finest sights we ever saw, many of
the trees being loaded to the ground
with their golden and ruby fruit. Pears
, were also doing well. Their large stock