The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-05-19
WAUSHARA.

EDITOR NEWS: = Thinking you
would like to hear from the north
eastern part of the county in regard
to crops, &C., 1 will inform you as best
l can.
Corn planting is backward, Tut the
farmers are getting the crops in as
fast as possible now. The heavy rains
put back blowing and planting con-
siderably, and the weather has been
such that corn would not make much
Roadway, If it were planted. have
seen some corn that was planted three
weeks ago, that is hardly up yet, al
though it sIrouted some time
since.
do not remember of better spring
for winter wheat and rye, since l have
been in Kansas; all that L have seen
looks splendidly, and rye is heading
out, and will probably be ready for the
reaper by the 10th of June. Farmers
expect heavy crop. Spring wheat
is doing finely, considering that some
of it was put in previous to our cold
and wet weather, in March and April
There has been considerable of oats
put in in this neighborhood, and it is
doing very nicely. We expect to reap
good crop of this grain if the chinch
bugs will keep away long enough, and
l think they will this season as our
wet weather is damper on their OPP
perations.
Farmers are beginning to wake up
on tree planting, and are paying more
attention to this than formerly. 1t is
the best thing that can be done in
Kansas now. Plant cut few trees
every spring and in a few years every
farmer will have home that will be
both attractive and profitable to him
and to every body near him. If farm
eTs would plant mulberry trees all
around their places, they would soon
have something that would be at once
useful and ornamental. There is moth
ing that cattle like more than a large
shf de tree in the hot summer days,
when they can find shelter from the
| burning rays of midday sun, and they
can be raised with little expense, and
afford great comfort to themselves
and their stock. Now in regard to the
mulberry tree think it stands about
as much rough weather as any, and
altogether is as hardy, ornamental and
useful tree as know of. The leaves
can be made into silk by the silk
worms. Every farmer should have at
least 100 mulbury trees on his place.
The children and those who cannot
perform hard labor can take care OF
them, and make for themselves con-
siderable spending money with but
little outlay. The silk worm eggs
are easily taken care of and need only
to be kept in a cool, dry place in glass
liars in winter, and in the summer plac-
ed in a clean room that Is dry and
free from insects. This silk worm
business is new industry for Kansas
but which one, in q short time, will
prove most profitable to any one who
engages in it.
> have been in several apple or.
chards near here that are hanging full
of blossoms so that when the apple:
are grown the limbs will have to b
propped up to sustain their weight, ol
which would be better, the apple!
thlnned out that those which are lef
! on might grow larger. The peach ant
cherry trees that are alive are full o
small fruit just beginning to show it
self as the blossoms fall of.
The farmers in this section dom
seem to trouble themselves much abou
: politics, but manifest more interest Il
u the stats of the weather and the pros
Pect for goOd-crOp next fall.