The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-26

cents 4 bushel. We believe there are
as many acres of prairie in the town
ship that will turn of ton and n hall
of hay each year as there are of land
that win produce fifty bushels of eorIl
per acre on an average. Fifty bushels
of corn at twenty-five cents amounts
to $3.50 One ton and half of hay at
So amounts to $50. Hay can be cut
and put in stack for $l.5O per ton.
Corn cannot be raised and harves ted
for less sum than twenty cents. a
writer in the Prairie Farmer thinks it
can be done for 1885 cents, which
would give profit of $3.50 per acre.
If our calculation is \ fair one, the
profit ON an acre of hay would be
1888.
In addition to the increasing home
consumption of hay in Kansas, there
is beginning to be a good deal of it
shipped out of the State, and of course
that amount viii rapidly multiply now
that attention has been turned TO i6
There is greater profit to-day in
shipping prairie hay to St. Louis,
where it can be obtained on the line of
the railroad, than can be realized from
shipping oats or corn.
1t has been but few years since
the division of country called the
"East" produced its own supply of
beet. When "western' cattle men
first ventured into the eastern market
with their beeves they met with a good
deal of ridicule. Now the east is not
only too glad TO receive such beef as
they then spurned, but she gets away
with half million head annually OF
''long horns" in the bargain. Who
shall say that the hay commerce will
not follow in the cattle trail?
William A. Green, prominent citi-
zen of Coles county, Illinois, visited
this place recently, and in conversa-
ton with us he stated that hay was
now being shipped from his county to |
Boston. He also agreed with us that |
the time was at hand in which it would |
pay to buy the prairie lands IN this |
vicinity at the prices asked for them,
for the purpose of fencing them to be |
kept for the grass they would produce. |
OF course tame grasses would pay bet
ter, but they will come in their time.
With these facts before them it be-
hOoves the people to give the grass |
question more attention in the future
lin other words, to snake hay while |
the sun Shines"
PREMIUM CHEEsE.-The Americas |
cheese company has another feather |
for its cap. 1t sent the A., T. & $. F.
r. r. Company one of its cheese for |
exhibition at Kansas City, and that |
cheese took the blue ribbon. Consid- |
ering the fact that the Kansas City ex-
hibtion was the biggest thing of the
kind west of st. Louis, and that two |
States competed for the supremacy,
this is high compliment for the |
Americas cheese. This factory also |
took the blue ribbon at tho Lyon |
County Fair, and this week it COM
petes for the premium at the State
Fair. The truth is, S. c. james is as
good il not the best cheese maker in |
the State.
PREMIUMS AID LIBITUM.- Americas |
carried off her share of blue ribbons |
at the county fair. Knox Sc Campbell |
took first premium on flour; S. G..
James & Co., on cheese; o. Lambert, |
on short-horn bull; John McDougal, |
second on draft horse and sweepstakes |
on stallion four years old and over; II.
L. Carpenter, second premium and
sweepstakes on Poland China sow;
Lafayette James, first on jack and also |
on mule; j. w. Lists washing ma
chine took first premium; N. S. Piper,
first on butter; Mrs. Dole, first on |
quilt; Miss Susie 10y, first on zephyr |
wreath; Mrs. S. A. Lambert, first on |
several kinds of poultry, etc., etc.
PERsoNAL.-We omitted last week |
to mention that Mrs. T. J. Crouch had |
gone to her old home in New York ON |
a visit.
Also that Mr.. Geo. A. Bower and |
lady had returned from Indiana in |
good health and spirits.
Mr.. William Bowser's father and |
mother, from Indianapolis, Indiana,
arrived last week to see Kansas and
visit their son.