The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
Kansas Farming.

AAAHSAS H'aEM me-
ME. Cook, of Allen county, recent
ly shipped a couple OF stock hogs to
Logan county, Kentucky.
Garnett Plaindealer: John Mohler
raised $50 acres of corn last year,
without paying out a cent for labor.
This year he proposes to put in $50
acres. With gang plOws and sulky
cultivatOrs himself and boys propose
to do all the work.
Now, then, does John or the boys
do most of the work, and how many
boys does John boss?
Know les of Cofeyville tells a grass
hopper story thus: fLast tall, I heard
that carbolic acid would stop the hop
pers. So got bottle of it, making
. saturated line about my porch, and
set the bottle in the corner. Next
morning I found my house covered
with hopPers. and dozen or 9fteon
en- the top of the bottle sucking like
good fellows at the cork"
The agricultural statistician at
Washington in his last report says
that the increase in the production OF
corn for the past few years has been
more rapid in Kansas than in any
other state of the Union, the crop oil
1876 equalling in amount that of Mis-
souri,, far more populOus state.
Fraak Chase sold a fall blood Short
Horn heifer TO Hr. p. j. Potts Of Dia-
mond creek, last week. The heifer ID
coming tive years old and weighed
something over 1000 pounds. She was
purchased, whenss calf, at the Durham
Park farm in Marion county, ewHed
sold several thoroughbred Berkshire
pigs to parties IN Lyon county
Council Grove Republican.
be utilized for fuel. They burn readi-
", and make q warm FIRE. Walnut
timber is scarce and valuable. The
| walnut tree grows rapidly and thriVea
In this country. It attRins . large size
in ten or twelve years. Hsncs We
advise the planting OF walnut treei
in preferaAee to aRy other variety
| It is better to grow walnut trees from
the nuts, and Aot to transplant them
Kansas farmers should take warning
and at once provide for his pigs thu
only reliable safeguard from cholera
clean rioOrs, dry pens, with shelter
from rain and sun, variety of foet
and pure water to drink. We cliI
this hog cholera item from the Kansa
City Commercial Bulletine of the 9Th
Death IL bound to come where hogs ar
found wallowing in the dirt, and wet
| A dispatch. from Sedalia, Missoa
says that within the past week thre4
hundred head OF hogs have died il
Windsor and vicinity from cholera
The farmers Whereabouts, In order Il
cave their stock, restored to ever
known remedy, but nothing was found
TO effect permanent cure. The pat
ent nostrums advertised as ''certAiI
cure for the hog cholera" were extern
sively tried, but proved wholly inefh
Gent. Some coRception of the raw
ages among the hogs around Sedalii
is gained from the fact that five thous
and carcasses have been purchased q
the rendering establishment there
the dead animals being. brought freu
the county adjacent, and q few ship
ped from near stations. During th'
mouth of January $500 was paid on
by one firm alsne, who paid 81 to 81 2!
per hundred pounds fer the carcasses
Prof. Shelton, Of the Agricultural Col
ledge says Of Alfalfa: Use only Cali
fornla seed, casting enly % cents pc
bHshel. Sow without other grain q
the rate Of % pounds per acre, il
land clear of weeds, and thoroughly
plant aaJ haTrew, at about the tiHs
oats and barley are sown, say earls
in April. It makes q feeble growth
the first summer, and Is easily chokes
out by weeds, and should net b,
pasrursd or moved until late In tn,
first season. After that it takes who'll.
possession Of the ground, and crowd
cut everything else.
Enos Mclaughlin had six pigs las
lspFing. From these six he has soll
$130 worth, killed two for his own rs
and has six left on the farm. This
q specimen of hog raising in Southern
Kansas.-COffeYville Journal.
/ Kansas Chief: Aleck Appleby la
brought in. the latest egg curiosity.
Il It was hen egg almost as large as
geese egg. Upon breaking the shell
Ito ascertain If it was 3 double egg
another perfect egg, of ordinary size
found within, having perfect shell
The space between the inner and quite
shell WAS filed with substance simila
to the white OF an egg.
i Mr. T. G.. Henry, the great wheat
man Of Abilene, who has probabl,
. greater interests at stake in this ques-
Iion than Anybody else. and has giveI
the matter very. patient Investigation
says grasshopper is effected BY tn
weather just as Q snake is-ksep hin
frozen, and he is all right, ready u