The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-12
FROM CHASE COUNTY
Various Agricultural Items.
CEDAR VALLEY, Chase Co., !
Noon June %, 1873.

CEDAR VALLEY, C1aSe Cost
Noon, June %, 1875
DEAR OLD NEWS While the hors-
es rest and nip the tender grass, we
take the Faber to tell you and through
you your thousands of readers, the pro-
gress of things in this part OF the soon
to be populOus and great common
veal tn of Kansas.
Wheat harvest has been a heavy and
tedious one. 1t commenced the last
week in May, and yesterday the last
was cut.
1t will be recollected that we had q
heavy hail storm on the Both OF April,
and it was thought at the time that
many pieces were ruined. Indeed,
some plowed their wheat up and plant
ed the ground to corn. No one thought
at the time of the storm that the wheat
could make half a crop, 1t was so beaten
down; but nearly all that was broken
down turned up at the joints and is
well filled with fine, full, plump grain.
With the excellent facilities BOW for
cutting grain, it has been well saved.
The farmers force is now divided, some
blowing corn and some stacking wheat.
A few more clear and airy days and
the wheat will all be in stack and the
corn passably clean of weeds. Some
corn that was planted the Goth of
March is now coming in tassel, and is
seven feet high and promises a heavy
crop. Many thought last spring that
as we had had three good crops of corn
in succession we would at least par
TALLY fail this season. The prospect
now is splendid. Oats are all that any
man could wish-will make from 40
to 10 bu. per acre. Potatoes, sweet
and Irish, are doing all that could be
desired. Grass is so common and plen-
ty that we scarcely ever think of say
ing anything about it, yet it is one of
the items that help make Kansas what
she is. Her great broad prairies of
nutritious grass; what would Kansas
be without them, planted hore thou
sands OF years before Columbus ever
discovered America. What an open
ing here for sheep husbandry. If a
few hundred tons of the now rich and
juicy grass was made into hay, we'll
cured in July, what thousands OF nice
fat sheep could be turned on the roll
ing prairies next spring. What fine
market it would afford for the hun
dreds of thousands of bushels of oats
and corn now selling at twenty cents
per bushel, and with fair prospect of
being much less. With the introduce
tion of sheep how the factories would
spring up all over the country. Don't
you think, Mr.. NEWS, we ought 10
make our own clothing as well as our
own bread, beef and pork. We are of
the opinion that much of our grass is
cut too late to make the best and most
nutritious hay. One thing we do know,
all kinds of stock like tender, young
grass in preference to old and hard.
But one thing Is certain, as plenty as
corn and oats are here, it will pay eve
ry time to feed more In the winter. All
stock should be kept growing as well
in the winter as summer, If the farmer
wants quick sales and fair profits. No
kind parent would think for one mo-
ment of feeding his children we'll
through the summer and half feed
them through the winter, and have
them in April mere skeletons, especial
ly when food was plenty and cheap,
and yet that is the very system pursu-
ed by many in raising young stock of
all kinds. My hour is up. Again
adiau W