The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-02-23
Kansas Farming.

| hopper convention OF farmers.
Some farmers are now beginning ts
fear that they will not manage to gel
their last years corn crop out of the
field in time to plant again this year
These kind of farmers are food of COM
ing to town and sitting around in gro
Gerry stores.
Considerable spring wheat has been
planted this month in Brown and Ne
maha counties.
Drilled fall wheat is Ia much better
condition than broadcast.
NJ. de Smet, from Franc, has bought
the grape farm at Baldwin City and
expects to make $4,000 gallons OF
grape wine this fall.
A farmer who had saved all his hogs
the past year from hog cholora, insists
that the following is a sure cure for
that fatal disease: pounds salsoda
2 pounds sulphur;1 pound saltpeter
2 ozs. arsenic, mixed in STOP, either
bran or shorts. This is two doses for
forty hogs.
A Mrs. Edmonds placed pan of hot
ashes in q coop for the chickens to
warm their feet by, when the
coop took fire, and it and the
stable, hay, grain, etc., was de-
streyed.
Atchinson Champion: John Bell,
liviag near Port William. Yesterday
sent as specimen of the product of
his farm. 1t is q parsRip, and meas
ures five feet four inches in length, of
the shape and fiexibility of q black
snake whip.
Wichita Eagle: From every patriot
of the Arkansas valley comes assur-
ance of magnificent wheat crop for
1877. In the past ten days wheat has
grown from one to two inches. Late
broadcast sown wheat, that about the
middle of December seemed to have
died out, is found to be all right, while
the deeply drilled wheat presents q
solid mat of green. We confidently
expect good times next year. A big
wheat crop, times easing up In tho
east, factories resuming work, the
Presidential question settled, all fol-
lowed by big immigration to our
valley will give US a bright, prosper
Gus year.
A large amount of spring wheat is
being sown In Dickinson county.
The Odessa is the favorite variety.
Snow birds eat an Immense number
of grasshopper eggs-don't let those
birds be killed.
A Dickinson county farmer lately
harvested his pork crop. Fifty hogs
brought him over 500.
4. ID. Schach, of Davis county, hav-
ing nothing else to do, is raising grass
hoppers in a bottle. He feeds them on
chewing tobacco.
Ellis County Star. Mr.. William
Studyvin, an engineer on the K. P,
has about one hundred hogs, and the
disease called sscholera'' attacked some
of the animals, and after one had died
worms were found in the mouth. He
now cures the disease with q mixture
ct ashes, saltpetre, etc, mixed with
the food.
Sedgwick county farmers are brag-
giDg on the condition of their fall
wheat.
lola Register: Mrs. Watson, living
few miles east of lola, brought in .
couple of Poland China hogs months
and ten days old, that weighed 1872 1-2
pounds each. Beat it who can.
Burlington Patriot: r. s. Lang
weighed half blood short horn calf
on Monday, ten months old, that turn
ed 7S5 pounds. He comes of q
full bleoded short horn bull, owned BY
Mr.. Park, of Platte county, MS. The
dam was an ordinary heller, two years
old. The calf has not been stall fed,
nor received any extra care or atten-
ton, and We call it the best weight for
its age of any calf in Kansas. Ii any
of our exchanges can do as well let
them speak out.
AS practical proof Of how pigs in
crease, the Chanute Times says that
J. j. NJ. Gowan, near there, had three
sows to begin with in the spring of
1875. He has killed enough to supply
his family and workhands abundantly
with pork, and has now So pigs on
hand.
Hemp raisers report that their crop
will average 1900 pounds to the acre.
Hemp is worth $40 per ton.
JohR Durham had sown ten acres
of wheat prior to February 10th, in
Marshall county.
A farmer in Dickinson county says
the Seeding peaches are all right, but
the buds of budded stock are some
what injured on high ground. He
thinks, however, we shall have a fair
crop, -
On last Saturday we saw n curiosity
of nature but scarcely ever witnessed.
It was Oh the farm of JAG. Vogt, Sr.
ten miles north of town. We there
saw double pig, having two mature
ly developed bodies and only q single
head. The head has well developed
snout with a small projection above it,
seemingly miniature snout, four ears,
two larger than the others, four front
legs, from which the body divides -
Halstead Record.
Twenty prosperous farmers from
Pennsylvania reached Ellis county on
the 18th, to locate permanently.
On farm in Wilson county, 279 rats
were recently killed while the men
we're moving some corn cribs.
Next mouth a colony of wealthy
Germans, representing several mil
lions of dollars are to make a visit to
Kansas for the purpose of locating.
A colony of 800 people, from Altoona,
Pa. lie to start for Kansas next month.
Indnstrializt The Rocky Noun
tain locust eggs are yet in good con-
dition, and evidently will yield ninety
five per cent. of healthy 'hoppers.
We have found the native grasshopper
in warm places, and had few sent US,
but have seen no young Rocky Noun
tain locusts so far.
A Golden Opportunity.
ne have no doubt all OF our readers
have carefully read the large dodble-coI-