The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-11-04
GRAssHOPPER aNTIDOTE.
The Fearful and Wonderful Growth
of 1875.

That 40 pound pumpkin has gone back TO
Crawford County.
An Ellsworth County farmer says his corn will
make seventy busheles to the acre.
Many fields of upland corn in Wilson County
will produce fifty and sixty bushels to the acre
this season.
The agricultural products of Wilson County
this year have combined value of nearly one
million dollars
Mr.. ]. p Bear furnished the Augusta Gazette,
among other vegetables, a squash 53 inches long,
by 30 in circumference.
One hundred and five gallons of sorghum from
a quarter of an acre of sugar cane, has been
squeezed out in Ottawa County, and it is claim
ed to be big squeeze.
Oscar Palmer, of Walton Township, Sumner
County, threshed this season 5000 bushels of
wheat from one hundred acres of land-an aver
age of thirty bushels per acre.
Mr.. H. /. Savage sent the Belleville Republic a
cabbage that was 4a feet in circumference. Mr..
Rich sent the same paper a squash four and a
half feet in circumference.
two and half foot beet weighing over eight
pounds; two melons, one "A and the other Al
pounds and an early Rose potato weighing Sc
ounces, make the Miami Republican howl for
joy.
The Burlington Patriot says: ave learn that
Mr.. Waggener, between here and lie Roy, has
raised a pumpkin this season weighing 100
for the centennial"
The Ottawa Triumph SAYS: "Mr. James Wa
terman brought to our Office last Saturday, the
champion bean pod so far. 1t contained 1,752
beans, and was only thirty inches in length"
Sqnire Durant, of Grant Township, Republic
County, informs the Telescope that he has COM
menced digging his potatoes, and, that so far rs
he has gone, they will average one bushel to
every twelve hills.
We have an ear of corn in our Office that
tains l,7s4 grains. We would like to know
where the man lives that can beat it. 1t was
raised on Mr.. Klngensmiths farm, adjoining this
city.-AHgRsta Gazette.
the Valparaiso variety covering space of two
rods wide by ten rods long, and bearing twenty
seven squashes, a majority of which are as large
as an eight gallon cask.
NJ. B. Hoover exhibited to the Burlington Pat
riot ears of corn grown on his farm of the white
flint variety, fifteen inches long and sound as
dollar. How is that for sod cOrn' 1t ought to
average over 100 bushels to the acre, and was on
exhibition al the County fair.
County Treasurer Savage has left at the Belle
vile Telescope office head each of cabbage
and caulitlower that excel anything we have ev-
seen. The cabbage measures four feet one
inch in circumference, and the head of caulifiow-
will make good half gallon of pickles.
Mr.. Frank Gott, of South Haven Township,
Sumner County, left at the Press Off &C last Tues
day an 0sage Orange plant grown from the seed
sown the 18th day of last May, which meas
ures fifty inches in length Gott informed us
that his entire nursery of hedge plants would av-
erage from three to four feet in length.
The Augusta Gazette says: "And now comes
John |. Pngh and Mrs. Amanda Brown, and leave
with us two heads of cabbage, samples of their
respective crops, each weighing twenty pounds.
Mr.. Pugh has 800 beads, which at the same rate
would give him 26,0O0 pounds. What "a paradise
for lovers of krout.
4 Morris County farmer has presented the Re
publican with some mammoth vegetables, includ-
ing seven and Onehalf pound beet two feet
long from top to tip; an immense cabbage, that
will eclipse any cabage We have yet seen: seven
carrots, one Of which is Is inches long and inch
es in circumference also, a cotton plant feet
10 inches high.
We received some specimen ears of corn from
the farms of Messrs Durall and Walker, of Rich
Township, says the Garnett Journal, which weigh
ed one pound ard five ounces each, and also
shcled quart to the ear, making thrtytwo
ears to the bushel This corn is nothing but the
native product and that from the farm of Mr..
Walker was raised on sod.
The Wathena Reporter says: 1--WE have in our
possession a monstrusity which grew upon that
part of a stalk of corn which should have been
the tassel lis an ear vf ordinary size, say ten
inches long, which is clssped around by seven
smaller ears, and which form an outside she'll or
cup, the bottom forming a socket in which the
large rests. The small ears are about six
inches in length, and all are closely covered with
well developed grains. 1t was raised by Jacob
Laverins, near this place
The following diminutive specimens are furn-
shed by the Valley Falls Era:
And now comes E. X. Townsend, with a stalk
of corn that has done its best, and produced five
neat ears of corn.
But James Griifitts walks to the front with
two stalks having nine ears each-lS ears on two
stalks, and says that he raised them without any
relief bonds or government ra,ious, and he tells
the truth.
Next comes Gen. Rhodes with sweet potato
weighing three pounds, and looking for the man
who is going to eat it. We have agreed to do
the job if it takes all Winter.
Then J. II. Eshleman steps in with three pO-
tatOes of new variety the late rose, and we
pronounce them smashers. They are large,
fine, smooth potato, and productive.
But the biggest thing that happened to MS last
Saturday, was n little nutmeg musk melon
brought by Miss Clara Van Horn. Everybody
asserted that it was pumpkin in disguise, but
a smell of the deiciOus perfume convinced the
most skeptical. The little thing measured three
feet and half inches in circumference, and
weighed enough to make you jump when pnb-
lished in our list of premiums
The Wichita Beacon boasts of a ninety pound
watermelon.
At the Harvey County Fair was squash weigh
ing l22 pounds.
A $50 acre corn field i'm Wilson County will
yield 90 bushels to the acre.
Potatoes in Republic County average a bnshel
to every eight and ten hills.
Ears of corn fourteen to fifteen inches long are
reported in nearly every County.
Potatoes are selling at Elk Falls for 30 cents
per bushel, and dead loads of 'em at that.
The cheese factory at Beattie, in Marshall Conn
ty, makes 400 pounds of cheese per day.
Kansas silk worms are exported to France,
where they bring higher prices than any other.
An Osborn County farmer claims thirty BUSH
els of early rose potatoes from peck of seed.
A ffty-iive pound watermelon is what makes
the Osborn County Farmer man swell like a
toad.
An Elk County faTs:s7s has threshed three hun
dred bushels of wheat from nine acres-33t bush
els per acre.
At the Osborn County fair 81 pound sauashes.
So pound pumpkins and 2S inch beets were on
exhibition.
Tne La Cygne Journal says that there is an
ear of corn growing in Liberty Township that
measures twenty-five inches in length.
One hundred and one farmers in MaIion Conn
ty harvested this year 623 acres of wheat
They propose to SOW for next years harvest B.
716 acres.
Deets ''two feet long, and from "seventeen to
twenty inches in circumference" are common in