The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-17

Cheering Items Of News from the
Farming Regions Of South
ern Kansas.

ern Kansas.
Every one who comes to Kansas City
from Kansas these days has his own par
ticular stock of stories to tell about the
wonderful crops in that State. Among
the Sunfower pilgrims who landed IN the
CITY on Saturday was Carley Bartlett, the
good looking and laxative travelling
passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific.
He had spent four or five days In South
ern Kansas, and his mouth was going at
the rate of 500 revolutions q minute
about crops, when he was tagged Dy a
Times man on Main street.
"Wheatl" he exclaimed, "you never
saw the likel The farmers down IN
Southern Kansas had to rent the pubic
roads to get room enough to stack the
wheat. Wasn't room enough in the fields
to hold the stacks. / saw one
"How is the fruit crop?" j,
"Fruit! You never saw the Ike!
Apples as big as cannon balls growing IN
clusters as big as haystacks. sa" one
apple that"
"Trees! You never saw the like!
The farmers planted sorghum in the
orchards and the stalks grew up like tele-
graph poles and supported the limbs. l
saw one stalk of sorghum that was too
feet"
GLOW is the broom corn crop?"
Groom corn! You never saw the
likeI There hasn't been a cloudy day In
southern Kapsas for a month. Can't
cloud up. The broom corn grew so high
that it kept the clouds swept off the face
of the sky as clean as a new floor. They
will have to cut the corn down if it gets
too dry. Some of the broom cornstalks
are so high that -"
"How is the corn CROP"
"Cornl You never saw the like
Down in the Neosho and Fall River and
Arkansas bottoms the corn is as high as
a house. They use step ladders to gather
roasting ears"
AREN'T tep-ladders pretty expensive?"
Expensive! Well, I should say but
that isn't the worst of it. The trouble is
that the children climb up into the OH
stalks to hunt for eagles nests and some
times fall out and kill themselves. Four
teen funerals in one county last week
from that cause / attended all of them.
That Is why I am so sad. And, mind
you, the corn is not more than half
grown. A man at Arkansas City has in
vented a machine which he calls The
Solar Corn Harvester and Child Protec-
tor 1t is inflated with gas ike a balloon
and floats over the corn tops, aud the
occupants reach down and cut off the
ears of corn with a cavalry sabre, Every
Kansas farmer has a cavalry sabre and
-
"Do they make much cider in Kansas"
Cider? You never saw the like
Oceans of It'll Most of the farmers in
Crowley county have filed their cisterns
with cider. A proposition was made a
few days since to the Water-works Com
pany of Arkansas City to supply the
town with cider through the mains, but
the company was compelled to decline
because they were afraid the cider would
rust the pumps. They were sorry, but
they said they would nave to continue to
furnish water, although it cost more. I
saw n farmer who"
Chow is the potato crop?"
"PotatoesI You v saw the like
A man in Sedgwick county dug a potato
the other day that was so big he used the
cavity it grew.in for a cellar. I saw one
potato that
THE people must be happy over their
big crops?"
Happy! You saw the likeI I
know men in the Arkansas valley who
were too poor this time last year to flag
a bread wagon, and now they have pie
three times a day. One fellow that"
But the reporter, just at this point, had
a pressing engagement else where.-Kan-
Sas City Times.