, 1889-10-10
KANSAS IS ALL RIGHT.
A Raiiroad Travelling Agent Tells a Re-
porter About Arkansas Valley

- futlrpAu IrHtellnE Agent IelAH a h<-
porter About Arkansas Valley
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 Saturday vas Charley Barrett, the
good looking and talkative travelling pas
senger agent of the Missouri Pacific. He
had spent four or five days in southern
Kansas, and his mouth was going at the
rate of 500 revolutions a minute about
crops when be was Gagged by a Times
man on Main street.
'WheatI' he exclaimed. You never
saw the likel The farmers DON in
southern Kansas had to rent the public
roads TO get room enough to stack the
wheat. Wasn't room enough in the fields
10 hold the stacks. saw one
How is the fruit CROP
Fruit You never saw the likei APP
Piles as big as annon balls growing in
clusters as big as haystacks, ! saw one
apple that
Don't the trees break DOWN.
"TreesI You never saw the likeI The
farmers planted sorghum in the or
CIttIubt dlu lilc u kIGW up Ilht tio
graph poles and supported the limbs. 1
saw one stalk OF sorghum that was two
feet
GLOW Is the broom corn cropY
Broom corni You never saw the
likei There hasn't been a cloudy day in
southern Kansas for a month. Can't
cloud up The broom corn grew SC high
that it kept the clouds swept of the face
of the sky as clean as a new floor. They
will have to cut tile corn down IL it,gets
too dry. SoL.ie Of the broom corr stalks
are so high that
"How is the corn CROP"
"Corni You never saw the likei Down
In the Neosho and Fall River and Arkan-
sas bottoms the corn is as high as a
house. They use stepladders to gather
roasting ears"
Aren't stepladders pretty ~expensiveT'
'Expensivei Well. | should say SO:
but that isn't the worst of 1t. The trouble
Is that the children climb up into tho
cornstalks to hunt for eagles' nests, and
sometimes fall out and kill themselves.
Fourteen funerals In one county last
week from that cause. | attended all Of
them That is why | am so sad And.
mind you. the corn Is not more thar half
grown. A man at Arkansas City has in
vented u machine which he calls The
Solar Corn Harvester and Child Pro
tector.' II Is inflated with gas like n bal
loon and oat over he corn tops, and
the occupants reach down and cut off the
ears OF corr with "a cavalry saber. Every
Kansas farmer has a cavalry saber,
and
do they make much cider In KAN
sasY'
"Cider? You never saw the likei
Oceans OF i'll Most of the farmers in
Crowley county have filled their cisterns
with cider. A proposition was made a
few days ago 20 the water works COM
pany of Arkansas City to supply the
town with cider through the mains,
but the company was compelled to de-
cline because they were afraid the cider
would rust the pumps. They were sorry.
but they said they would have to on
tinue to furnish water, although it cost
more. / saw one farmer who
"How is the potato CROP
"Potatoesl You never saw the like
A man in Sedgwick county dug a potato
the other day that was so big he used the
cavity 1t grew in for a cellar. I saw ons
potato that
1.-THE people must be happy over thei,
big crops?'
"Happyi You never saw the likei ]
know men in the Arkansas valley who
were too poor this time last year to flag
a bread wagon, and now they nave pie
three times a day. One fellow that
But the reporter just at this point had
apressing engagement elsewhere Kan
sas City Times.