The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-07-08
Tenn items.

EDITORS JOURNAL: The summer
sOlstice is past, the tall shadows Of the
morning, and the heightened ones Of
the evening, proclaim that the days
are shortened The convenience and
comfort Of but few articles Of apparel.
even in the first gush of the early
morn, will soon he over for the year.
II common fame does not asperse you,
you denizens Of the town worship the
setting. and not the rising sun. That
is, in the natural world: in the Politi-
cal world il is doubtless the reverse.
But who would voluntarily forego the
morning slumber for health. wealth,
wisdom or the beauties and splendors
Of the rising sun. Your former, how
ever. from the nature of his calling, IL
Obliged to witness old sol" get up In
the morning, the force Of habit soon
becomes efiectual In waking him up
ut this seasonable (:l hour. The care
Of the wheat harvest il In his dreams
and pulls his slumbering eyelids open,
and he feels abashed IL the great orb
has already gilded the horizon and he
has not shifted the fresh breeze before
IL has been disturbed by the suns ad-
vancing rays. Or the header outfit
swOops down upon him and slashes
away In his fields ere he is astir.
The header has become the harvest
er of this wheat region. In travelling
from here To Salina one must conclude
that many Of them have been manag-
ed OF run by inexperienced persons, rs
the ragged appearance Of the fields
will attest. Patches and strips are left
standing and in many eases the cut
ting was too high To catch the short
heads of wheat. Thir unskilled, or
careless sort of work is loss Ia and n
fraud on the owner of the wheat cut /.
and libel Oh the profession.
The wheat crop We might say, II q
living one. That Is, bread and seed
and current economical expenses. but
there il no money In IL al the price.
Producers in this county ought to III
not incompatible with justice Ia credit
ors hold on To their wheat until nj least
a crop of corn is in sight.
The corn fields are numerous and
extensive. and with n few more good
rains there will be n large yield. With
plenty of corn and stock Ia feed IL Ia.
there need he no lack in the land.
The report from the bottom land On
the yield of wheat is, for once, in ex-
cess Of that on the upland. Our ieo-
pie OH the upland, either for having Ia
he all the while in gathering the
wheat, or from no Necessity Of having
To thresh thus early, have no means OF
knowing as yet what the yield will
| be, but We presume the average will
be about ten bushels per acre. The
winter killing. the dry weather, she'll
ing out by the winds, and the waste
full cutting by some, has ciphe-ed the
| yield from wheat that promised last
fall and winter To be thirty bushel,
per acre to. about one-third that
amount.
The political outlook has an inter
esting appearance With the greal
| questions: Who shall he President
and who shall be- Governor Of Kansas
and who shall fill the other State ON
ces, and who shall be Congressman
from this district, and who shall IL
State Senator from Saline and Nc
Pherson, and who shall I'LL the coun
" offices becoming vacant this year
and last but not least. shall We hav'
the prohibition amendment? any on
who has any taste for these question
OF feels any interest in them need no
complain Of ennui from now until mex
November. ASNoTAToR.