The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-08-28
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Real Estate Register:
Most of the men whom the Offices
are seeking are mighty fraid" the of
fees won't end them.
Our idiot says there Is no use in get
ting mp famine this year. There il
no L. S. Senator TO elect.
I Apples, pears, peaches, pl,uns, grapes
and other seaSonable fruits and vege.
tables are plenty in our market.
Our readers will make a ncteO of tls
fact that the first half of their taxes
must be paid this year by the Goth o.
December, instead of the 10th of Jan.
nary to avoid paying penalty.
at is an i'll wind that blows nobody
good" Our stock men are iubilant
Grass led stock are getting rolling fat
We predict that stock will be wintered
in good order for two-thirds the ex-
pense they barely skinned through
with last year.
Don't wait for grasshoppers. chincll-
bugs or anything else, but put in every
acre possible with fall wheat. Put in
early, in good order, and you will be
much more likely to raise crop than
it you keep the seed in the bin.
This state has been cursed tlis year
with three disagreeable pests: Grass
hOppers, chinch bngs and croakersD
The last is the worst, and hardest to
get rid of, as public sentiment is moi
sufficiently advanced to allow them 70
be killed on sight.
The cultivation of castor beans is
coming quite prominently into notice.
We hear of fair crops being grown this
year on land that would not have pro-
duced q bushel of corn. From Mr.
Watson who has had experience in
raising them, we learn that the crop Is
as easy to raise as corn, much cheaper
to harvest and market, and yields an
average of twenty bushels per acre, and
brings usually two dollars per bnshel
Here is chance for practical home
manufacturing. An oil mill is not an
expensive concern.
Some anonymous cuss, writing from,
blank address in Kansas to Chicago
Tribune, says: "All the potatoes
pumpkins, squashes and citron-melons
are destroyed. There is nothing to
eat, and no money to buy it If there
was" Now we submit that this is too
bad. We might have managed TO sup
port q miserable existence without
pumpkins and squashes, bnt when we
are ruthlessly ravished of our "citron
melons" all hope is gone, and nsught
is left but blank despair. Insatiate
monsterl will naught else suffice
Take all things else, but give, oh ! give
us back our citron melons.
The number of cars OF cattle shipped
from this point this fall is 407. When we
consider the extremely hot weather, low
price of cattle, and that the shipping sea-
son has just begun, this is very fair
showing, and will substantiaEe our claim,
that this is one Of the principal shipping
| points IN the state. This month and next
will more than quadrupIe this number.
There has also been shipped tw enty cars
fhogs.
| The locusts are leaving many dis
tricts after doing moro or less damage
But what is more important, they are
leaving without depositing their eggs
AS they came early SO they are likely
to leave early, and no fear need be fell
of the Young next spring, or OF the old
ones this fall. If every acre of fall
wheat that can be sown, is not already
let it be done at once. Very little
damage has ever been done to field
crops in the spring, where millions Of
the pests were Matched. They have
always left as soOn as they were large
enough.
Last spring DIR. j. A. Moore dis
tributed SO bushels OF fax seed to Q:
persons, they agreeing to return hin
one and one-fourth bushels for on,
bushel of seed, and he agreeing to pa!
them $l.2J per bushel for all they hAl
to cell. The product from this see'
has been over 1900 bushels, beside
what the parties have retained for seet
next year. When we consider the dis
advantages of the season, and the wan
of experience with this crop, the abov
is not bad showing. 1t has probabl.
yielded fourteen bushels for one, o
1850 for one bushel of seed. In sd
dition to this there is the 1iber, whic
can be made available at some price.