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


Early peas have been planted In
Reno county.
The first pie-pIant of the season is
reported at Lawrence.
Chickens are dying with the cholera
In West Lawrence.
Last years corn crop is not all gath
cred in Wilson county.
Tho 9Th of March has been chosen
a. Arbor Day for Cherokee.
There is a cow near Centralia seven
years old that has had ten calves.
Grass is starti ng along the streams
and In the timber of Sumner county.
Drilled wheat everywhere shows up
much better than that sown broadcast.
Lettuce, onions and radIshes have
appeared in the LeavenwOrth market.
Kansas will place a specimen of her
fruit on exhibition in Washington In
March.
Frank Haney, at Sabetha, secured
his pony by passing rope around the
neck and tying it to the stall, and
next morning found it dead-strangu-
lation.
7. E. Scott, OF Ottawa county, has q
dock of I,5O0 sheep, having lost only
i've during the past winter. One wia-
Ter he took 200 through without any
loss.
In 1862 Kansas produced only two
hundred and two thousand bushels OF
wheat. In 1856 the State counted
her yield at twenty millions Of wheat
Average was twenty-one bushels pei
acre. Only one State-Callfornia--
out of the twenty recognized wheat
growing States comes up to Kansas
The average of Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Missouri, for twelve con-
secutive years-that is the average OF
the whole-was sixteen and six tenths
bushels. The average of Kansas for
the same period was twenty-one
bushels.
Louisa BourdIne, living In the south
part Of this county, last year sent q
quantity OF sllkwOrm eggs to her
friends IN Italy, which have proved so
healthy and successful that she has
orders to negotiate with Mr.. Crozier,
Of Silkville, Tor his entire egg product.
Usage County Chronicle.
Remember that Benjamin Franklin
said, "Rust consumes more than Ia
bor." Apply this proverb to your
farm machinery, and take care OF it.
The average yield of corn and wheat
per acre for twelve years, in Kansas, is
higher as proved by statistics-than
that of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York or
Massachusetts,, for the same period.
Greenwood county has never had a
case OF hog cholera.
The cholera goes in streaks. 1t has
visited Waterville with most 0amag-
ing results. We have heard it stated
the Touring mill proprietors there lost
fifty hogs, and that the amount OF
losses in that place by the disease is
not short of one thousand dollars.
We have heard of no losses here yet
but may expect to do SO at any time.
Common wealth.
Myers & Co., of Chicago, say that
out OF 800 car loads of corn received
by them from Kansas, there was not
one tina did not bring the highest
marke rice.
w hen oiling an axletree the spindle
should be wiped clean with u cloth
wet with turpentine, and then apply
. few drops of castor oil near the
shoulder and end. When greasing an
axletree, just enough grease should be
applied to give it a light coating
more does harm rather than good, by
working out and damaging the hub.
Mr.. F. Tibbetts, of Longton town
ship, Elk county, is ahead. He has q
Poland China sow, one year old, that
has had q pigs; some of which now
weigh 300 pounds each.-Common-
wealth.
This is a fair sample of the ridicu-
lOus pig stories that some papers copy
without due consideration. The au-
thor of It is a liar.
Jewell County Mentor: An assO-
citation has been formed in Ionia town
ship called the Pleasant Ridge Grass
hopper Association. This organizes
ton Is formed for the purpose of ex-
terminating the young grasshopperl
in the spring. It Is = move in the
right direction, and the example
should be followed by the people OF
every township in the county.
The time will soon be here when
the enterprising chickens of your
neighbors will be loose to investigate
your ability to make a garden, and
test your powers OF meekness and for.
bearance.
Lawrence Tribune: Mr.. Petefish
of Clinton, raised twelve acre FIELD
of corn, and has just finished gather.
ing one-half OF the field by the rows
and IL measures $50 bushels-showinG
that the whole twelve acres will prove
to be product of LOO bushels-be.
ing little over ninety bushels to thu
acre.
Mr.. Crozier, of the franklin county
Silk colony, sold 10000 mulberry
trees last year.
Troy Chief: We learn that the far
mers on Cedar Creek, between Whit,
Cloud and Iowa Point, have held q
meeting and organized to fight grass
hUppers. Their programme is TO har
rev, plow, ditch and barn, and any
thing else to destroy the pests. II tn,
farmers, all over the infected district
would do the same thing, and carry
out the work they would proven
much destruction of crops, although
they might not entirely preVen
grasshopper ravages-
At recent ''grasshopper meeting
In Saline county, several gentlemen
stated that they had been experiment
ing with the eggs, and were very hope
tul that very large proportion haG
been destroyed. Six weeks ago Their,
had been no difficulty in Matching
them in six hoHrs by artificial means
recently, under the same condition
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