The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-28
FRUTTAND CROrs NOTES.

EGSadE' Nd CROP NOTES
The grape crop of Doniphan conn
~ 10 reported 81. = never in 8 more
promising condition. Grapes have
come to be standard anil import
ant crop in that county.
Mr.. Branscom near Granville,
expected to have GO,0O0 bushels of
corn, and now says he will have |
$1,000 in spite OF droutb, grasshop- |
pers and everybody else.
The grasshOppers left for the cast |
on Monday. Their present pOstof-
ice address is characterization
City Union.
From report prepared for the
Secretary Of tho State Agricultural
Society we learn that eleven hund-
red acres OF castor beans were rais-
ed in Franklin county this year.
We clip the following items from
the Burlington Patriot:
Mr.. III. Gooch has some six acrs
of corn that will 90 fifty bushels to
the acre, and il has been injured
very little from dry weather.
Castor beans, which have been
raised quite extensively in our
county, have recently doubled in
price at st. Louis, being quoted at
$3.50 per bushel.
Mr.. U. Coy informs us lots of hay
is being put up on Long creek. Mr..
P. Brandon has already put up 100
tons, and Mr.. Barber and Mr..
Baughman about sixty tons each.
Mr.. Coy has got up thirty or forty
tons, and farmers are all busy hay
ing.
Mr.. Thomas GOodson has eight
acres of corn that will yield fifty
bushels to the acre. He has ten
acres more that will yield thirty
bushels to the acre.
Mr.. VIM. Sailing brought to our
Office Saturday sixty ears of new
corn, fully matured, fit for feeding,
that weighed sixty -three pounds.
This was gathered from some of the
poorest in his corn field and from
the specimens yield sixty bushels to
the acre. He has reserved five acres
of the best, which will be entered
for the premium at our county fair.
CRoPs IN GREENWOOD COUNTY,
We have no hesitation in saying
that Greenwood county has the best
crops in the state. OF wheat there
will be plenty 10 supply the need OF
the county and some to sell. Oats,
though not a full crop, yielded
enough TO make quite an item in
feeding. Corn is doubtful. The
very earliest fields win yield fail
crop, some few q full crop-all will
yield something. Of later corr
much will fail badly, though a rair
within q few days will help it. Ye
there will DO q great amount of corr
and it will probably supply the de
mand for feeding purposes. Gras
is very uneven. In some places j
is so short that it is hardly wortl
cutting. These arc exceptional, how
ever, as most of it though short
yields tOlerably well. What it lacks
in quantity it makes up in quality
the hay being excellent. It Is ad
visable that every farmer secures al
the fodder of all kinds that he can
If sheds or shelters of any kind cal
: be constructed for cattle they will
E do much to economic feed. Com
mence feeding early and get tn
cattle in good condition to g,
2 through the winter. Don't sell to-
soon, but when a fair offer come
let your crops go. Wheat ought t
2 bring more than 1t is worth now; W
: think it will. 1t IL very low in 81
Louis, Chicago and Cincinnati. Tn
> bottom is clean out of the cattl
I market. In fact everything is loI
: and prices are down generally. Far
: mers' produce must suffer with tn
rest, consequently it will pay to hol
+ for higher prices If you are not i
J. debt. If you are, the sooner yo
sell enough to let you ont, the bel
, ter. Prospects for GreeDwoo
!. county are good. They were neve
o better. Though she has net fu
crop, prices will more than make q
for the Observation-Disclosures Herald
u VIII Ellet, of Rock creek, hi
county. will have 1000 bushels {
corn from 100 acres of ground. Thi
we presume, is one of the best field
of corn in our cOunty.-Wslnnt Va
/, ley Times.
n Mr.. Moore, of Benton TOWNSHIP
brought us some very nice lookin
corn raised on his farm in the abov
township. Mr.. NJ. had a acres {
J. corn, Is of which will not yield any
: thing. He is not respondent bI
n will stick to the shIp.-Walnut Va
o ley Times.
l. The Winfield Courier saws: |
J. some places the grasshoppers hav
d eaten late corn pretty bad, but tt
# early corn has suffered but littl
q from the pests. On Grouse cree
n where there has been NO drouth, an
the grasshoppers haven't been, the
Is There Is no reason for the people [
get disheartened and leave this couI
tys as some of them are doing, fC
where can they better their cOnd
ton? The wheat crop IL this cour
ty was good and there will be cor
, siderable corn, and we think tn
people in general have occasion I
8 be thankful that they are so we
) provided for rs compared with ott
. er parts of the Union.
Martin Hass, one of our subscrif
ers living three miles west of Ho
8 on, informs us that in spite of grass
Q hoppers, chinchbugs, drouth, etc
he will. harvest from 400 to 600 busI
'' els of corn on seventeen acres G
e ground. If any one in the count
| can beat this we would like to knoN
: it.-Holton Express.
The Washington Republican say
that at the rate wheat is now CON
. ing into the market, over 2OO,OO
bushels will be shipped east fror
Washington county this fall, Will
facts seem 20 indicate that before an
{. other harvest much greater amonu
, will be needed to supply the hom
demand, and for the western coun
: ties.
, The Washington Republican say
e that gentleman from central lows
I in our city last week, informed u
that he could buy any amount @
corn in his section at p cents pc
, bushel, and would lay down en-
q quantity of corn in our county at 3
cents per bushel. If corn is onl
: 10 cents bushel here this winte
= that will not be very bad will it2
New corn is coming into the mar
, ket, and SO far 1t looks first rate.
is thought now that we will hav
plenty of corn for home consump
2 ton, and probably some to spare. 4
a great many farmers, in anticipation
of the high price of feed, have dis
posed of large number of hog
which are being shipped of. Thi
will lessen the home consumption
and bring the price of corn down
We would not be surprised to Sc,
corn sell on our streets this fall 6
low as fifty cents per bashel-For
Scott Monitor.
In this and Cherokee counties tn.
corn crop will be good, notwith
standing the drouth. In other por
lions of the country around it viii