The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-01-07
Foa rHE EAGLE.
Peetiferous Weeds. Herd Law. Re
lief Question DO.
FRoM KEcH1 TowSoHIP.

FROM KEcHI TowNOHIP.
Ep.ron EAaLE:-Kansas, or the
Arkansas Valley at least, has its share !
Of native weeds. Its sunfowers, horse |
aud bull-nettles; shoc-string weeds; |
fat-hen, rosin-weeds, tumble weeds
and others. yet for pernicioas proper
ties all those together are to be COM
pared to a little..vinc, the seed Of which
is being brought here by em'grsnts, l
refer, to what is known in Illinois, as
the ''tame morning-giory." There are
two kinds of this vine. The kind of
which Iwrite, and with which l am best
acquainted, is rather a course vine,
with figured leaf and has q purple
flower, always open in the morning
-but closed at any other time in the
day. The seed closely resembles q
grain of buck-wheat. These seeds
terminate in "a cornfield, after the corn
is laid by, aud flower over the tops OF
the highest stalks in few weeks.
Some Of our lady friends, who last
summer watched with q considerable
degree of pleasure, their agile climb
ing up and around their winows,
over and through their lattice work,
may not thank us for this Information,
but | know farmers in Illinois, who
would actually give money enough to
buy a farm in Sedgwick county, il
they could thereby get rid of this pest.
To repeal the herd law at this time,
would not be quite rs disastrous as
another hopper-bug drouth year, but
in my opinion something similar
would be the result. We would have
probably one acre Of corn where we
now have five. Yet some friend, writ
ing for the EAGLE week ere last, is
tired of this law. have neighbors in
the same fix. One of them said to me
the other evening, "Why, that boy
(pointing to his son, twelve or four
teen years old) could keep my cows of
of my growing crops the whole sum-
mer, and it would't cost me dollar"
1t seems to me 'that boy" would
be to board. 1t also seems "thai
boy" might herd the cattle belonging
to dozen more neighbOrs besides, in
stead of devoting his whole time to
his fathers small bunch. Or, that his
fathers bunch might be run with
somebody else's herd, for the small
sum of three or four dollars per month
and "that boy" might cultivate twenty
or twenty-five acres Of corn. "Tha'
boy" in the hands Of Thorough going
farmer, would cultivate that much
corn and not hurt him either.
This relief question is most per.
picking one. Before me are two let.
tiers, from my father and another
farmer of the same county, Morgan
Ills). Both are inquiring chow about
relief?" "Are your needy receiving
anythiugw lam somewhat at a loss
to know how to answer. know they
want nothing but actual facts, and il
is nv honest conviction that quite q
portion of the people of Scdgwick
county are receiving, or are growing
very confident of receiving, more aid
than they deserve. The county from
which those letters come, has alread.
sent to Kansas eight car loads of relief
four of which have hecn received b,
Reno county. May be they ought t.
send more, but | know there are hun
dreds of families back in Illinois who
work very hard, go thinly clad. ant
live very close,..to live at all. know
too, that when the hog cholera sweep
through that section of country FIVE
years ago, taking many poor renters
pen OF fat hogs after they had consum
ed his entire corn crop, that these rem
tiers got, nor asked no assistance saw
small loans from some neighbor, Of
city friend who had full confidence il
their habits of industry, to pay it back
| know that others sacrificed ten
twenty, forty or eighty acres of land
| know, too, the poor there, canno
afford, and are not attempting to.afford
granger feasts, while out here, in man!
instances owners of unincumbere(
real estate are thinking themselves OBJ
jects of charity And while we arr
ever so anxious that none should suf
fer, there certainly is danger tina
through the real charity of eastern
friends, we will, before winter is over
have quite class of confirmed ant
. chronic beggars in our midst.
If the state treasury has in it thu
money it claims to have, why can't j
loan some at reasonable rate Of inter
est, and have it secured by Sedgwici
county real estate, instead Of beg, beg
begging? especially in the face of cx
listing facts. Take the crop reports o
the states sending this relief, not OH,
county in ten scarcely reports full
crop while many counties raised scar
cely anything.
, Mr.. Editor; thank you for the repor
Of operations on the Sullivan farm
BY actual figures it is demonstrated
eleven cents per bushel will put corr
, into the crib, in an ordinary season
Surely Farmer X. will yet get forgive
ness for saying that corn coald be rails
cd "without cribbing" for fifteen cent?
per bushel. Within the last two week.
our worthy granger leaders, Williams
, and Lee have thrown this up to US al
gigantic piece of stupidity. Corr
, raised for fifteen cents per bushel
: pooh believe the rank and file o
this order might yet be brought to &C
, cept facts were it not for their leaders
for there are, without doubt quito /:
number OF them who want to have.th'
order a blessing to the agriculture
class, and not simply an expensive,
! piece of tom-fooicry gotten up and ruI
by a set of men who want to make .
living without work.
you have any more wedding &C
counts from the diamond diggers o
Brazil, please don't publish them unit
, better times. Yours.
FARMER X.
r. correspondence Of Centcrville uowal Citizen.
From Kansas.
WICHITA, Dec. Goth, 1874.
NO. CROSBY: The following clip
ped from the Citizen OF Dec. 4th.
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