The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-06-04
HANS = &-TEIE OUTLOOK
MOST RRORaHSING.


KANSAS OUTLOOK
MOST PROMISING.
Correspondence or the Chicago Tribune.
Under the above head. in the Chi.
cago Daily Tribune of Friday, we
find the following reliable account
from one of our citizens, and 1t SO
well sums up the present condition
of crops in this section that we clip
it for our readers east, as well as
here, merely promising that we are
informed it was not written to the
Tribune, or for publication, bat as q
private letter to the cashier of q
Chicago National bank, who took
the liberty of hsving:it published {:
EdPoRIA, Kan, May CIT may
not be out of place for me to make
to you fair statement of the cOndi-
ton and prospects of crops in this
section of the State, In view of the
prOminence given TO the subject by
the Chicago papers, which presume.
bly, reflect the current opinions of
IOaA COOpAO IN lAAO SuOISCls
As to that part of the State south
of the Kansas river and west of the
east line of this Lyon) county,
can speak largely from personal
knowledge, supplemented by the re-
suits of careful inquiry from reliable
sources, covering so much of that
territory as l have not personally
inspected. In the region above
mentioned, there are next to no
grasshoppers, and, when they exist
at all it is in comparatively small
numbers, and in but few localities.
The farther west we go the less
there are, until, after passing three
tiers of counties, there are none.
All the damage they have done SO
far could not, at the outside, exceed
$5OO, and their work is less appar-
ent now than it was two weeks ago.
There is next to no apprehension of
danger from the grasshoppers now
on the ground, though the proba-
bility of their making their appear
ance from the West Colorado, &c. J
has been somewhat discussed with
reference to its effect upon late
corn. This is, of course, pure spec
nlRIion.
The crops never looked better
than now. In this county, winter
wheat was considerably winter
killed,-say one third of it,-but
what remains is very fine but west
of this county, the wheat was not
hurt by the winter, and is rapidly
approaching harvesting condition,
with a prospect of a magnificent
yield. The acreage is larger than
ever before and the yield will be
proportionately larger, unless some
thing not now anticipated as posi-
Bile shall occur. Corn, oats, fax,
Hungarian, spring wheat (of which
latter there is but a small acreage),
look the best possible. Every con-
dition seems favorable: The acre
age ls unusually large; the ground
is in the very best condition the
season has, on the whole been fav-
0rable; the people are doing their
full part as never before, in the
faith that Providence will do His.
There certainly does not exist, in
this section, any ground whatever
for the statements made concerning
destruction taking place and antic-
ipated. On the contrary, the out
look is most promising. East of
here, more damage has been done,
and more ground for apprehension
exists but even there, the damage
has been confined to individuals
and sections, and / very much doubt
If One-twentieth of the crop has
been taken, or is in danger from the
grasshoppers.
There is a fair prospect for fruit
throughout the State, especially for
peaches, strawberries, etc. Cattle
are doing well, and will soon be go
ing to market. The number is fully
as great as eyer, and the condition
fully equal to that of last year.
While the State had q hard time
last winter, it still has not lost all,
nor have the people lost heart. A
single crop will more than restore
the old status, and that, 1 firmly be-
lieve, we shall have.
2. B. PLUME.