The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-21
KANSAS FARMING.

Winter wheat is heading out in
Sumner county. The prospect for a
heavy crop is fiattering.
Rye in Harvey county is nearly all
headed out, with fine prospects of a
big yield.
There are but very few if any of the
army grasshoppers in Harvey county.
and but very few chinch bugs.
Near Oxford, Summer county, con-
siderable corn had to be replanted, ow-
ing to first planting rotting to some
extent. Wheat is doing well. Gar
dens are flourishing. A bountiful year
is anticipated, and everybody seems
to be in excellent spirits.
Never before since our residence in
Sumner county have we seen the farm
ers in such good spirits as at the pres
ent time, and we think they have rea-
son to be proud and happy, for the
prospect of splendid crop of wheat
never was better in any cOunty.---Wel-
lington Press.
A Kansas Farmer correspondent
says two-thirds of the wheat in Neo-
shO county is already destroyed by
grasshoppers. Early crops also de-
stroyed.
Half the fall wheat in Wyandotte
county looks bad.
Farmers all say they never saw
wheat look so well, anywhere, as il
does in Marion and Butler counties to-
day.-Peabody Gazette 18th.
A large area of prairie will be bro
ken in Sumner comfy this season.
Topeka, May 15.-This section has
been visited with heavy. rains daring
the past twelve hours. FlatterinE re-
ports of the condition of the crops
have been received here from all Sec
tions of the state. Some portions OF
the southeastern part of the state are
suffering from grasshoppers, but the
central and northern parts are afflicted
but slightly with them. Western Kan
sas and Arkansas valley, which were
devastated by the grasshoppers last
year, are now entirely free from in
sects of all kinds. They have been IA
vorsd with copious and opportune
showers, and have now the best pros
poets for bounteous crops they eyer
had.
Large fields of hemp are being sown
by tine farmers along the line of the
Kansas Central road.
Capt. J. NJ. Bernard returned from
| trip to the Southwest early in the
week. He reports the crops, especial
ly the wheat, looking very fine, and
says the farmers are in good Spirits
Humboldt Union.
The crop prospects of Kansas are re-
ally magnificent in the aggregate. In
| some localities there is O little COM
plant that the grasshoppers are fear
| ed; but it is not general, and we pre-
! sumo but little damage to the main
crops will be experienced from them
l-Leavenworth Commercial.
Last year Labette county raised $685.
600 bushels of wheat, and present in
dications are 100000 bushels more this
year.
Some cheap barns are to be built for
the cattle on the State Agricultural
College farm, and the present barn is
to be fitted up for recitations rooms.
Why isn't a first-class barn more use
full than an agricultural college, .
anyway?
The grasshoppers are doing a good
deal of damage in the eastern border
counties, after ali. The Atchison
Champion says:
The farmers OF the Eastern counties
of Kansas stand confronted by q terri
BILE disaster. The flax, from which
they hoped SO much, will be almost to-
| tally destroyed, and so will the barley.
This disaster can only be repaired by
deter mined, energetic work. After
the grasshoppers shall have migrated
there will be time to plant many crops
and bring them to maturity. In the
spring OF 1867 the ''hatefuls" did not
leave this section until about the Goth
of June, and corn planted about that
time matured and furnished q very
heavy crop. The corn crop of Kan. was,
that tall, was one Of the heaviest and
best ever grown in the State. Corn
will ripen, If the season is at all favor
able, when planted as late as the last
week in June, and so will barley and
some other crops.
One fruit grower says he keeps the
young grasshoppers from climbing his
trees by tying cord around them q
foot from the ground, another two feet
higher, and satnrating both with tur-
pentine. Tie around the tress, OF
cCurse.l
DIR. Deskins, the venerable chairman
of our County Board, in fOrIns US that
he has lost sixty acres OF fax oy the
grasshoppers, which area he viii al
once sow to castor beans.-LawFenee
] journal.