The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-02

hogs. They are getting tired of sell
ing corn at Is cents per bushel, and
think it will pay better to raise hogs.
A brief glance at the country is
sufficient TO satisfy any ORe there is an
immense mount Of corn in the fields,
uDgathered. In many such fields, cat
tie are ranging at will. IL this shift
lessness, or noC?-Troy Chief.
Yes, It's the cusaedest kind of shift
lessness.
An exchange has this to say about
fattening hogs: SIT has been very
well settled that raising big hogs is .
losing business. Hogs that weigh 500
pounds sell less readily than those that
weigh $50 pounds, and then the cost
of raising 500 pound hog will raise
three 250-pound hogs. Is costs
more to put the second hundred
POUNDS on than the first, and the third
hundred more than the second, and SO
on up. A hog that weighs 800 pounds,
1t Is said, will eat its head of twice.
Junction City Tribune: Jacob
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rowing up the hopper nests and is en-
couraged with results. Chickens and
birds deVour the eggs with great avid
ity. The harrow shows where the
eggs are and makes scratching easy.
Fredonia Citizen: Eli Neff, the
stock farmer, of Wilson county, is
losing great many sheep with the
"scab." He has sent to st. Louis for
l. If f0h u
which to make q wash or bath for
them. Unless the progress of the
disease Is soon checked his loss will be
heavy.
FEEDING HoGs-.J. 81. Saunders,
who lives six miles northeast of Win
field, brought US by wagon one Po-
land China shOat on the 3rd day Of
JAM, weighing 272 pounds. We fed
the same on corn and water, until Jan.
SOth, at which time it weighed $50
pounds. This we think q pretty good
gain, but we have quite a number OF
hogs in eur feed lot which have done
as well and some much better.
MULLEN & WooD.
In 1856 the grasshoppers, or locusts,
made their first appear ance, destroyed
all late crops and deposited a few
eggs. The following spriRg this part
of the State had an immunity from the
the young ones.
In 1874 we were again invaded by
the pests; but most of them left with
out leaving many eggs. But the
eastern counties OF Kansas, and a large
portion Of Missouri were not so favor
ed. The locusts reached those locali-
ties later, and deposited great quanti-
ties of eggs. The following year, 1875,
the eggs Matched by the ton, and all
the spring crops in eastern Kansas and
/ western Missouri were DESTROYED.
Last fall, 1875, the pests came late
and remained until after their work OF
propagation was ended.
The whole country for hundreds of
miles square Is hOney-cOmbed with
eggs, and the eggs examined up to
date, are pronounced sound. Our far
mers know this and have been urged
| TO consolidated activity, but still sleep
| upon their oars. We hear of No at
tempt being made to destroy the eggs
by any of the modes suggested by our
men of thought and experience. Let
there be immediate action. -Junction
City Union.
Secretary Gray, of the State Board
Agriculture, in his annual report,
states that the yield of corn in Kan
sas, for the year 1875, aggregated 3d.
1867 bushels. The yield for 1876
was fully as large in the aggregate.
The wealth there is In such a harvest
can be readily estimated. 1t is bring
ing into the State q steady dow of
money. In 1874 our corn crop was
ks partial failure, and we had to import
large quantities of corn from Iowa.
For the past two years Kansas has
been largely supplying Iowa with
corn, wheat and -four.
D. w. Kaufman, of Des Moines,
Iowa, gives Kansas farmers valuable
suggestions. He says:
During the summer of 1874 I pro-
cured from the gas-house several gal
Ions of coal or gas-tar. put about q
quart into q l0ng handled stew-pan,
and with few shavings and q match
soon had dense. black smoke. This
carried under my PLAN trees so that
the dense smoke pervaded all parts eli
the tree. My first effort was very
gratifying in seeing insects of all sorts
hurrying out of the tree. Ants came
running down the tree, various kinds
OF worms and spiders letting them
selves down by their webs, and all
winged insects flying out, and thus
leaving the tree deserted Of all insect
life. 1 spent about half an hour In
smoking forty-two trees; and this
repeated three or four times each week,
unless q rain had washed on the
lsnudge, when / again repeated the
smoking. After my first efforts I tried
the jarIing process but invariably
failed to catch or see single specimen
of the curculio. / continued this oper-
alton until near the time of rIpening,
and got my first crop of plums, over
thirty bushels. The theory of this ex-
pertinent is, that the coal tar sAoke is
of q somewhat greasy nature, and thus
adheres to the tree anc foliage, and its
stencil being very offensive to all AMI
NAL life, the insects were In no hurry
to return 10 these offensive smelling
trees. The whole cost of coal tar for
these AZ trees during the summer was
less than 81. l began the smoking q
little too late, after had tried for
some time the jarrlng into the sheet,
and, therefore, some of the fruit was
stung, or my crop Of ripe plums
would have been still greater. During
1873 the plum crop was an enti. g
failure, and /, therefore, had no oppOr-
tunity to continue this experiment
but the summer OF 1875 brought q
large plum crop, and at once resort
ed to my favorite remedy. / COM
menced smoking my tree as soon as
the plums were the size of a hazlenut
and continued mp to ripening time, and
net a single eurculio sting was to be
seen on any fruit. the trees of which
, were treated to coal tar smoke. ]
purposely left several trees of differ
emit varieties unsmoked, and all the
plans except one sort were stunR and
dropped before ripenlDg.
The inviting climate, productive
soil and great resources of Kansas have
induced many to come here without q
cent in their pockets. That class Of
people will find it 'hard row to hoe
before they accumulate much wealth.