The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-18

for evidences of the damage.
These, too, are found ia be excep-
tionaIly well filled, and with speci-
mems that refute the idea OF drouth,
and put the sensationalists to
shame. OF the show it.g in these
departments, the Commercial says:
sin the horticultural hall we saw
among the agricultural productions
of our fertile soil, what scatter our
ideas of drouth and grasshoppers to
the four winds-ears of corn four
teen inches long, such as was raised |
in Egypt in the seven years of plen-
ty; corn stalks sixteen feet high /; /
sweet potatoes, a few of which |
would make a bushel; pumpkins |
| and squashes that would take the |
blue ribbon in Yankeedom water
melons that would scare a drouth |
away; cabbage and onions of the |
| Colorado size and perfection.
| Among fruits we saw apples, |
| grapes, peSrs and peaches that ex.
celled the famous collection that
took the great gold medal at the
Philadelphia genealogical congress.
No such collection of fruits was
ever seen in the West or East. We
saw splendid specimens, but were
assured by Mr.. S. T. Kelsey, of the
Atchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe Rail-
road collection, and by Mr.. We'll
house, the Superintendent, thst the
half had not yet been shown"
The Times report is less detailed
than the above but wss more Gu
logistic.
The Atchison Topeka s. Santa Fe
Railroad Company, whose line PEN
etrates the great Southwest where
the drouth and grasshoppers are
said to have been as damaging as
t in other parts of the State, has
placed on exhibition such products
of that country as would put many
of the older States to shame in the
= most prosperous years. The older
: counties scarcely need vindication
q their great production is well
known, yet among the showing
made, some of their past exhibit.
K tons have been much excelled in
quantity, variety and excellence OF
specimens.
J These facts, however, do moi
prove that nobody has suffered in
: Kansas from the great scourge
They simply show that the suffering
IF has been nothing like as extensive
. as represented. And here agail
we reiterate what is the real truti
II about the devastation. On TIL
,e froutier are many new settlers, WIN
are poor, and who came to Kansa
to get homesteads and make thei
70 fortunes. BY the necessity of thei
N situation they had none but 500
l. crops, which everybody knows ar
n always late, and need more mois
ture than crops in cultivated land
le The lightness of the rainfall, there
of fore, damaged them, and they wer
n. yet so fresh and :green when tn
g grasshoppers came that they fell u
easy and early prey TO their vorac
he ty. Therefore, the settlers ha
a nothing left, and so depended for
subsistence until another crop coul
be raised and hence the distres
IN Suffering and destitution are col
Cd fined to this class of people,
rs others in Kansas have an abun(
ance, although their crops are Ii
W tie shorter in consequence of I'll
iightness of the rainfall, the chincl
D. bugs, and the grasshoppers. The
a. and can spare enough TO suppl
I'LL
re still have a large surplus to add
Ike the commerce of the West.
The section of country in whiC
there is most destitution have /,
cd good soil as any part of the Yves
al and as propitious seasons. SUE
n old farms as existed in such coul
ties have Jared as well as any 9th
no old farms in Kansas, with the e,
- ception that being on the fronti
sn where the grasshoppers appcart
err first the crops were little mo
green and vulnerable to their ra
IN ages, and were therefore a lit
70 more damaged than the other coul
70 ties. Another year, when the SC
;tv ground of this year shall becon
~ "old ground" and bear its crops
small grains, and when corn al
potatoes can be planted earlier 81
.es will not need more rain than 9th
lrd cold ground" crops, this desolat,
'ed territory will be among the me
W. productive sections of Kansas, al
the full fruition OF new settle
nm hopes will be realized.