The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-06

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The bees are humming all around
Now use the pruning knife and
hurry along tree planting.
A grape vine at Florence measures
I11K inches in circumference, and go
in diameter.
The branches of tree at Wellington,
when chopped measured eleven
cords. The trunk made two cords.
The prairies are turning green and
another month will transpose Kansas
into the most beautiful state in the
Union.
Broadcast sowing Of grain can be
done on horseback better than on foot,
and the horse do the heavy work.
Did you ever think of that?
Since Kansas has fairly entered the
wheat market (about two seasons)
her crop has graded higher than any
other In the st. Louis market.
Mrs. Wyman, living near yelling
ten, wac severely gored by q COW.
The brute made for her dog, which
tOe1 refuge behind her, and she reciv-
ed the thurst.
A farmer In North Wea raised last
year on ten acres of ground 1917
bushels of fax at q cost of SOL,
which he sold for 81 per bushel-$lO1.-
25-a profit of IS cents.
G. d. Smith, who lives Just north
of the city, has the largest number
of hens of any person in these parts
He has over 800, and collects over
100 eggs daily Monday his egg crop
aum bered 124.-Humbolt Union.
J. Graves, of Miami county, was
walking by the side of load of corn
when one of his mules kicked him
and he fell down and the fore wheel
passed over the small of his back.
For time his life was despsred of.
1t has been demonstrated that Cas-
tor beans are paying crop in South
ern Kansas. The farmers of this Sec
ton will engage extensively in Cas-
tor bean culture this season. We
| hear of a number who will plant from
fifteen to twenty-five acres.-Hum-
bolt Union.
Last year at this time the peach trees
were in bloom and the consequences
were that jack frost nipped them all
In their Respondent loneliness. This
year they are safe and peaches and
cream will be plenty in Franklin
county.
Louisville Reporter: Thomas DAVE
/ has LARGEST in 10
township. Two men have been work
ing on it about ten days and have
worked out 400 fence posts, four cords
wood and there are three cords in the
tree yet to get out, making in all,
seven cords. The tree measured Is
feet in circumference.
The funniest thing in regard to
newspaper ADVICE is that while
nearly every paper in Kansas is bawl-
ing, "permit no prairie fires this seas
on until the grasshoppers are hatch
ed OUT" there never were more
prairie fires than at present.
A letter from Mr.. Crozier of the
silk factory, lncloses report of one OF
the finest microscopic examiners Of
1
has made careful examination of
the Kansas eggs sent him by Mr..
Crozier, and thoroughly experimental
with them, and he issues a printed re-
port to the silk growers of France in
which he pronounces them free from
disease entirely. larger than common
and that the worms Matched from it
are superior to any he has examined.
This is a splendid advertisement for
Kansas.
The following from the Eureka
Herald is about as good description OF
the grasshopper egg business as has
been seen:
A few days age Mr.. Yates left at
our effice q collection of grasshopper
eggs which he recently took from the
ground. In color, shape and size they
resemble grains of rice. They are
compactly encased in very thin WALL
ed cococns. The cocoons are from
one-half to three-fourths of an inch
in length and one-fOurth inch in width.
Each OF these cocoons or cells contain
frem twenty to thirty eggs. OF 3
number we counted We found but one
containing as few as twenty and the
greater number of them yielded more
than thirty-five. The entire bulk
measures less than third of 9 pint.
1t numbers two hundred and tweRty-
six cells or cecoons besides some frag-
ments thrown in for good measure.
Allowing an average of twenty-five
eggs TO each cell (ani we believe this
Is low estimate) we have in this
handful of deposits $3.50 eggs. Mr..
n. s. Buckner having called at our
office we presented the eggs for his
inspection. He informed us he had
repeatedly examined grasshopper
eggs in Colorado. He broke a num-
Der of these aud found that they. con-
tanned nothing but watery substance.
This he pronounced n certain indica-
ton that the eggs were spoiled. II
good the young grasshopper would be
formed at this season. He thinks the
greater portion of the eggs deposited
last fall have decayed. The cause of
this he attributes to the wet weather
and freezing and thawing of the past
six weeks. he tells US that in Col
orado the eggs are deposited along the
base Of the mountains where It never
rains and consequently they are safe
| We trust this theory may be correct
and that the whole tribe of grasshop-
pers may be drowned out or "freozen
out"