The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-11-05

Can that emblem of advanced civilization,
blue grass, be successfully grown in Wichita
Unhesitatingly, and from experience, We ans
wer in the affirmative, and also as TO the how to
do it. Early, while yet the summer fingers
in the lap of spring, you join the Patrons and
send to some honest brother east for about
five dollars worth of fresh seed. warranted not
to cut in the eye or rip in the seat. The re-
mainder of the summer can be well occupied
in putting your ground in good condition. in
talking of Ceres, Flora and Pomona. and in
having your wife doctor up your grangers'
brand. Your seed at last arrives and SO does
September, when only a soaking rain is neces-
sary to active operations. The day comes !;
the heavens are overcast as with a pail and the
muttering thunders shake the hills One mo-
ment, and you may be too late. A rake is
seized with the desperation that produces
blisters as big As nickle and your five dollars
worth Of seed is covered just as the rain
blows over with a wind that blows your seed
to-heaven only knows where. In week it
rains for certain and you now rush to town
and buy all the blue grass seed that W. A.
Thomas 4 Co., Hobbs u West and Hess d
Getto have, which is one little paper each put
up as garden seeds, which you SOW without
any raking, it being the wrong time Of the
moon. In ten days patch here and patch
there of genuine blue grass about the size of
your nose may be observed vigorously vege-
taiing. On or about the fifteenth day along
comes six or eight little lousy, runty. stray
pigs which give the aforesaid patches a lift
that is fatal. The ragged edge Of despair is
now nearly reached when you learn that
Black & Corbett have just received some gen.
uine old Kentucky seed in bulk. The fall is
propitious, the melancholy days hang alooi
and by carrying fifty buckets Of water every
evening and pouring over the ground. for a
fortnight or so, it is again up just tall enough
To gladden. your heart and to keep two raw
boned, drouthy, grasshoppered old crobates
of horses without owners, busy all night pull
ing it up by the roots. BY this time, if you
have made no mistakes or miscalculations or
had no bad luck, and if your seed has been
invariably good, with plenty Of rain, you will
discover that winter has set in and that your
wife has grown quite tuft OF blue grass in
to the conclusion that it is within the range Of
possibility for any man in the short space OF
two years to raise at least two window pots
iu or nearly so, OF genuine blue grass in
Wichita.
PERsoNAL.-Mss Brugh, of Fincastle, Vir-
GINA, sister Of Mrs. Cogdell, is in the city
visiting relatives and frie nds.
Mrs c. f. Warmer ha, returned from her
visit to Ohio.
younger brother of A. A. Hyde, just from |
New York, has been employed as book keep |
err in the Savings Bank.
Col. Friedley, has returned to our valley |
rom Illinois. bringing with him his wife and |
daughter. We welcome them most heartily. |
j. &. Redhelu, u. 5. Receiver, OF this city,
home this week, from 4 visit among |
lis old friends at Humboldt. in Allen comfy. |
j. ii. Black has returned from flying trip \
o Pittsburg visiting his friends, and brought
Mrs Black home with him.