The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-07-21
SOUTHWEST.

from the OOtIOuWOOu aiI5
Leader.
The directors of the A, II. & S.
F. II. r. company have entered into
contract to build the Walnut Val
ley branch from Florence to Edo
RADIO, but reserve the right to start
from some point in Chase county if
they desire. President Nickerson
and Engineer Robinson examined
the several outlets from this point
on the 18th but left without coming
to any conclusion, apparently. The
road is to be completed by Novem-
Der 20 next. Mr.. Nickerson wants
to know what assistance will be
given by this people if the road
should start from Cottonwood
Falls.
S. N. Wood sold his blooded sow,
"Victoria," TO John Henson, OF En-
porla, for SIS. 1t is said to be the
best breeding SOW in the State.
Mr.. Henson will soon be one of
the leading breeders of swine in the
State.
Tho editor of the Arkansas City
Traveller has gone TO the Ccnten-
NAL.
Cowley county grapes injured by
wet weather.
The Arkansas river is bank full
in Kansas, over 26 feet deep at Lit
tie Rock, Ark. The steamer to run
from Arkansas City to Little Rock,
is now at the latter place, en- route
to the former.
j. B. Shane, of Reno county, has
five sections of land six miles from
Hutchinson, half of which he will
SOW to wheat this hear, and all of ii
next year. He employs % men, a
blacksmith, and Is yoke of cattle,
to turn the sod and plant.
The water mill of Hutchinson 81
Co., at Hutchinson, will have $50
horse power, and five run of burrs.
The building will be of brick, sc
by so, and three stories high above
the basement.
There is an artificial stone fac
tory at work in Hutchinson. II
makes building stone out of the
sand which composes the soil there,
and makes g very durable and per-
feet article, of any shape or size.
While 1t is the duty and the
pleasure of newspaper to speak
in laudatory terms of the people
and the country whose interest it
serves, it is also just as certainly
the same papers duty to tell the
truth. Aud so we are are kobliged
to say that the wheat crop in this
vicinity is not more than one-haif
what everybody hoped and belieY-
ed 1t would be. The great cause OF
the failure of our wheat crop this
year are these,-late and shallow
sowing. If man will do his work
well he can safely leave the result
with the Lord. But no one can
complain who omlts his part. Sow
early and deep. Early and deep.
Every grain of wheat should be
deep in the ground by the 10th day
of September.-Peabody Gazette.
In Peabody, during the present
season, there have been sold over
one hundred and fifty grain cutting
machines, most of them being har-
Yesters. Besides these they have
been sold over twenty threshing
machines, one of which is a steam
or. And these implements were
bought by residents of Marion
county-not Mennonites.
Among the specimens received at
Mr.. Salisbury's office to be sent to
Philadelphia, is q bundle of rye
raised on the sod. We mean SOW
ed on the prairie grass which had
never been disturbed by the plow.
The seed was sown broadcast, and
the piece was narrowed once. The
product is q long straw, we'll head
ed, and with no appearance that it
had encountered more than the or
binary obstacles in its life. The
yield was fair but we do not rem
ember the figures. The ground is
left in a much better condition to
break. The experimenter will SOW a
much larger area this season.-Pea-
body Gazette.