The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-09
tArEs OF ADYERTIsIxG.
EMPORIA NEW S.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 0. 1874.
q. From EmPoria Real Estate Register.
EHOPEsEkgGREAS SrATES'rACN

- From EmPorla Real Estate Register.
EHOEDI'EERGRRAsS STATHS'rACS
The State Board of Agriculture
has published an abstract of the re-
turns from blanks for crop reports
sent to every Township in the state
While there are many glaring in.
accuracies, yet It is probable that
on the whole, the report approach
es the truth.
According to this report the av-
erage yield per acre of corn is 1908
bushels this year. Averaged yield
for the nine preceding years, 34.O6
bushels, or Il little more than a
third OF a crop for this year.
This statement is liable to mis-
lead unless we consider that these
returns are the fullest and most ac-
curatc from the border counties
where nearly the whole crop was
planted on freshly broken prairie
sod, and little or nothing raised.
BY deducting the acreage in TWEEN
ty of these counties where there
was no crop to speak OF, we find
that the average for the rest of the
state, where only the usual amount
OF sod corn was planted, is 16 bush
els per acre, or nearly half of an
average crop.
This corresponds very closely
with Our estimate made Aug. Goth
and published Sept. lst. So also
we tiud that the average for Winter
wheat is 1916 bushels per acre,
while spring wheat, (the principal
crop in the new counties. and in
jured most by chinches in the old
averages only 9,72 bushels per acre.
TIC reports are almost nnani-
nous Oh the following points.
The grasshoppers have disap-
peared aoithOm depositiRg their
eggs. The damage done by them
during their stay has been greatly
exaggerated. In counties where
corn is scarce, stock hogs in great
nun bers have been sold al good
prices, and shipped to cheaper food.
Vast quantities of hay of excellent
quality have been secured in prime
order, and with the splendid fall
pasture brought forward by the
August and September rains, stock
will be winter ed in good style with
little or no grain. The usual area
of winter wheat will be sown,
though much of il will be late Ow-
ing to the fear of the hoppers.
The amount of destitution has
been greatly exaggerated. Beef is
plenty and cheap. The above is a
careful summary made from re-
ports from the entire state.
With this array of facts, and the
worst has evidently been told, what
occasion is that for gloom and des-
pondency? Such an array of dis
astrous circumstances never befel
any country in one season before,
and is IL likely to do so again, in
the present generation at least?
When the facts in regard to the
season of 1874 come to be generally
known and appreciated, it will
prove the best advertisement Kan
sas ever had. What other state or
nation OH the globe could go
through what Kansas has this year
and haze any thing at all left?
We have seen greater damage
done to crops by a four weeks
drouth in Michigan, than has been
done in Kansas by drouth, chinch
bug and grasshoppers. There is
no soil in the world that can with
stand drouth or Hood equal to ours.
There are some curious reports
sent in.
This from Lyon comfy will be
ncws to our people. "Grasshoppers
first appeared August 9th. De-
strOyed all green crops and Uegetd-
tom"
We should like to make the ac-
quaintance of the author of that
report. We would do some adver-
Using for him gratis. Please step
forward young man, we think your
neighbors would like to know you.