The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-26

ones will follow them in their career
of promised usefulness with earnest
prayers. Teachers and friends expect
to ilear,a-gpod report from this class:
( FkuIr AND cRoP NOTES.
+ FRUIT.-Kansas, especially this por-
ton, has 'spread herself" on the fruit
Ecrop this season. We have never seen
Ispch crops of gooseberries, currants
raspberries, Strawberries, cherries, etc.
as Were raised in these diggings this
year. LNnd howsevery house is full Of
Jelly ard Scanned goods
1 WIN. Hammond has field of fall
wheat which is 50 badly used by the
bugs that he Win not cut it.
The Hammond boys had hard
fight to keep the bugs ont of their
cora. They beat them By blowing q
fnrrow in such manner as to make
/ one side of it steep. The bugs would
congregate BY myriads in the furrew,
and being unable to crawl up the steep
side, remained there until they were
covered up with earth. In this way
the Hammonds have so far saved their
corn.
| Robert Mcmillan, of Agnes town
rhip, brings us good report OF crops
from his township. The corn prospect
is number one. It could hardly be
better. The fall wheat is excellent.
Spring wheat tolerable-littie below
average. Mr.. Mcmillan has some rye
and barley which will yield splendid
crop. He is one of the best farmers in
the county.
-CURRANTs.-The old song, which
all have heard sung many and many q
time, is that currants will not grow in
this climate-that the hot sun will kill
the bushes, etc. We wish everybody
who has thus preached could have seen
a branch of n curraut bush which Mil
ton w. Phillips left ut our office last
Monday morning. 1t was about fif-
teen inches long, and it seemed to US
there must have been very near pint
of currants on it. They were large
and luscious. They grew along fence
running north and south. We don't
want to hear that curra&ts won't grow
in Kansas any more.
Matt. KirkendalI left Il twig of .
cherry tree at our office the other day
six inches long which contained thirty
six large, full-grown cherries. 1t was
a rich sight.
DAVID johnson, of Pike township,
informs us that he raised splendid
crop OF fall wheat. This crop is most
ly good in his neighborhood. The
spring wheat is almost total failure,
on account of the ravages of the
chinch bugs. They are working some
in the corn fields, especially where
they adjoin spring wheat fields.
We learn that the crops on Eagle
creek are suffering badly from chinch
bugs.
Spring wheat is very unpopular
now with our farmers. Many of them
entertain the opinion that the pres
ence of chinch bugs is altogether ow-
ing to this crop, and express the belief
that it ought not to be raised any more.
The regular meeting of the Horti-
cultural Society was held last Satur-
day These meetings are not general
ly half as we'll attended rs they ought
to be. This society has been 4 great
benefit to the county, and the "faith-
full few" who have kept it alive deserve
the thanks of the public. j. NJ. Miller
was elected = vice president of the
State horticultural Society, for Lyon
county, in accordance with a new pro-
vision of the State Society.
Mr.. MilIiken LETT at eur Office 4
twig from cherry tree from j. N.
Miller's place which was on exhibition
before the horticultural Society last
Saturday; also some monster Eng
lish gooseberries furnished by Edward
Morris. In space of six inches there
were IS cherries. Some of the goose
berries measured three inches the
longest way and two and threc-fourths
inches the other. They were the lars-
est we remember of seeing.
MIR. Z. Moore, of Waterloo town
ship, says the chinch bugs are destroy
ing all the spring wheat in that section
of the country. They have damaged
the oats, and many fields of corn, he
fears, will be totally destroyed by
them. He thinks they will not leave
him anything. lie attributes his mis-
fortune to the fact that he sowed
spring wheat on his farm. Much of
the fall wheat was frozen out in his
neighborhood and many therefore
were induced to try spring wheat.
The chinch bug has been doing seri-
GUS injury inthe past few days. Many
fields of wheat that promised well ten
days ago are utterly ruined.
W. +. Baker hns just returned from
q trip into Southeastern Kansas and
Southwestern Missouri. lie reports
the winter wheat crop as being good
in the line of his travels, but nowhere
did he see such com and oats as we
have in this section OF the country.
In some localities growing crops are
suffering for rain.