The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07
NEWS.
FRIDAY, MAY I. 1875.
CnoP PROsPECTM

l1tA ~ 1900 ~rN-~~ -
We have taken considerable
pains 10 collect the reports OF the
growing crops frcm all parts of
the country, and after making due
allowance for probable exaggera-
lions which are common at this
season, we think that the follow
ing estimate will approximate the
truth.
Wheat, badly injured by the Sc
we're winter and spring, in Illinois,
Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Nebraska, Iowa, Wiscon-
sin, and parts of Michigan, west
Elm n Y, and n few localities in
Kansas. In the western and
southern parts of the state the
large acreage of fail wheat was
sowed early, and never looked bet
.er. In the eastern and north
western portions many waited I'M
til too late-for fear of the grass
hoppers, and their wheat has suf-
fered in consequence. Some good
judges report that one half of the
fall wheat in Missouri has been
plowed up.
Fruit.-All the early fruits have
been badly injured, if not entirely
killed, in Missouri, Arkansas,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indi-
ana, Illinois, parts of Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi and Califor-
MIA. The severe cold of the middle
of April extended over almost the
whole country, and where the fruit
was sufficiently advanced it was
seriously damaged. It is impossi-
BILE as yet to tell how much, if
any damage has been done to APP
Piles. In Kansas we have been Pc
culiarly fortunate. The frost was
80 slow In coming out that the
early and tender fruits had hardly
started when the cold weather of
April came. Fruit trees Of all
kinds were more or less injured
by the hot, dry weather of last
summer and fall, but the winter
has injured scarcely anything.
Even apricots, the most tender of
all our fruits are all right as yet.
The prospect of a fair average
crop of all fruits grown in this
state, was never better at this sea-
son.
With regard to spring planted
crops, OF course the prospect is
all in anticipation. The severe
and unprecedented frosts of the
winter have done that for the soil,
which the average farmer would
not do-they have SUBSIDIZED the
whole country. The soil was never
known to be in as good condition. |
An immense acreage of all The
spring grains is being planted.
The cold rains Of past few days, it |
is believed will destroy the young
grasshoppcrs and chinch- bugs,
which had begun to make their
appearance.
The farmers of Kansas have
never shown that resolute determi- |
nation to succeed, which they ex-
hibit this spring. Ne;ghbors are
vying with each other as to who
shall do the most, and do it best. |
Men, women and children are all |
at work with n will and a resolute
purpose we have never before |
seen.
Never in all the history of this
state, have we had so strong a !
faith in her resources, or in her
people, as to day. The whole peo-
pie, both in town and country,
seem to be heartily ashamed of
the depression and dependency
of the past year, and exhibit a set
purpose TO succeed, which is itself
n success.
The aid shriekers have sunk
back to their obscurity, and the
workers have come to the front,
and seem determined to rescue the
name of our fair state from the
obloquy cast upon her.
Now let every true Kansan take
hold with a will, and show by his
words and works that he has faith
in his country. and but a few
months will elapse before the
gloom and dependency of the
past few months will only he re-
lnembered as an unpleasant dream.