The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-09-28

XANSAs. I
A brickyard 1t junction City makes
d, 900 bricks . day.
The estimated wheat crop Of Kansas
b now placed at II, COX, 900 bushels.
DR.. II. G. Linn has discovered vein
Of salt ITO feet thick at depth OIL 600
feet on his farm, ten miles west Of To-
peka.
The valuation Of Kansas according |
to the assessor il $s2S, 81, 1885, an
increase Of So, so. 1895 during the
past year.
The agricultural resources Of Kansas
exceed the productive value of the
mining and manufacturing industries
of either Colorado or California.
The Kdnsas Farmer, after an exc
haustive investigation of the subject
estimates that the farm mortgage in
debtedness in Kansas Is but $50, 600, :
600.
Junction City Republican: G. Bush
has already sold 400 bushels of toma.
toes from his four acre patch and ex-
poets to harvest 100 bushels more.
Sixteen hundred bushels at Is cents
per bushel is just $500. Ozone hundred
an acre.
The Harper county farmers who put
out cotton this year will realize large
" from it. The yield is beyond all ex-
pectations. They have secured gin
and are 80 encouraged with their sue
cess that next year will find thousands
OF acres planted.
Sterling Bulletin: Alfalfa may make
| . good crop in this country lift is prop
erly put In and attended to. Gen. Az
cry had fourteen acres put in this
spring which has come up well and
stood the hot weather first-rate. 1t
was put in with a press drill.
Industrialist: The Fort Scott Works
are again in full blast and turning out
sugar in the most fascinating manner.
The cane this year is Of q most excel
lent quality, and it is expected that
the yield of sugar will be far above the
average of last year. All the new ma
lchinery put in this year works to
charm, and the capacity of the works
lie greatly enlarged.
Railway Age: In Kansas wheat
crop of II, 100000 bushels has already
been harvested, which is equivalent to
about 1875 car loads. Besides this thu
oats crop of Kansas is immense ant
the corn crop also seems to be IA
above the average. The railway com
panies have now good prospect o
recovering the heavy losses which tn
crop failure of last year caused them
Government Report: The crop o
silk cOcoOns for the last year wa
slightly greater than that of 1886, abou
2,2OO pounds of dry cocoons havinI
been purchased at Washington, 2,lO
at Philadelphia and LOO at Peabody
n Kansas. The State of Kansas produe
ed 1900 pounds Of these. which wa
more than the States of Ohio and I'LL
nois, the second and third States o
the list.
Kiowa Journal: An unusually larg
rs amount of wheat and rye will be sow
in this locality this fall. The larg
3 yield of wheat this year has encoural
ed the farmers to such an extent tbs
= many who had given up wheat raisin
5 several years ago will this fall 80
/, large fields. They are acting on tt
n n theory that if the wheat should
winter-killed their ground would be
excellent condition for listing mel
e. spring.
= Atchison Champion: From preset
indications it is safe to predict that Il
crops of Kansas for 1888 will bring
the State in cash, upon estimate, $40!
600. 600. This sum will be deriv,
from corn, $4,000 900; wheat SIS. Oot
900; oats, SIC, 600, 900; hay, SIG, 600 90
millet, So, OOO, 900; sorghum, $4,000, OF
potatoes, S., 600, 900; broom corn. ST.
900; flax. $4,000. Total, $l05, OOO, on
This sum does not include fruits, We
etables, cotton or tobacco; the procee
of which would increase the aggrega
considerably. With this large sum
money in the treasury, supplement-
by the proceeds of live stock, butt
and eggs, Kansas farm mortgages W
melt away like dew before the risil
sun.
South Kansas Tribune: Last we
was the opening of the sugar indust
p in Kansas for 1883. Last year the
was one sugar factory in the State
this year we have four, and if the {
A. periments to be made this year pro
successful, there will be at least al
teen next year. Sorghum can be gro,
on the poorest land in Kansas and
-. turn fair crop. 1t grows in drout
seasons as we'll as wet ones. It 10 pr
ing liable for seed alone or for forage, q
!, If the sugar can be extracted at q Il