The Russellville Democrat., 1889-09-26
NEVER SAW THE LIKE.
Cheering Items of News from Souths
 

Cheering Items of News from Southern
 Kansas Farmers.
 Every one who comes to Kansas City from Kansas these days has his own particular stock of stories to tell about the wonderful crops in that State Among the SunAower pilgrims who landed in the city recently was Charley Barrett. He had spent four or five days in Southern Kansas, and his mouth was going at the rate of five hundred revolutions minute about crops, when he was Jagged by a Times man.
 sWheat" he exclaimed. "You never saw the like! The farmers down in Southern Kansas had to rent the pub lie roads to get room enough to stack the wheat. Wasn't room enough in the fields to hold the stacks. saw one
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 "How is the fruit crop?"
 Fruit! You never saw the like! Ap- ples as big as cannon balls growing in clusters as big as haystacks. l saw one apple that"
 Don't the trees break down?"
 Trees! You never saw the like! The farmers planted sorghum in the orchards. and the stalks grew up like telegraph poles and supported the limbs. I saw one stalk of sorghum that was two feet"
 How is the broom-corn crop?"
 Broom corn! You never saw the like! There hasn't been cloudy day in Southern Kansas for 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 new floor. They will have to cut the corn down if it gets too dry. Some of the broom-corn stalks are so high that"
 "How is the corn cropP' "Cornl You never saw the Gkel Down in the Neosho and Fall river and Arkansas bottoms the corn is as high as house. They use step ladders to gather roasting ears"
 Aren't step ladders pretty expen- sivePn
 "Expensivel We'll. should say so; but that isn't the worst of it. The trouble is that the children climb up into the corn stalks 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 than half grown. A man at Arkansas City hos invented machine which he calls The Solar Corn Har- vester and Child Protector It is in- Hated with gas like balloon and floats over the corn tops. and the occupants reach down and cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry saber Every Kansas farmer has cavalry saber and"
 Do they make much cider in Kan sasP"
 "Ciderp You never saw the like! Oceans of it! Most of the farmers in Crowley County have filled their cisterns with cider. A proposition was made few days since to tho water-works company of Arkansas City to supply the town with cider through tho mains, but the company was compeled to decline because they were afraid the cider would rust the pumps They were sorry, but they said they would have to continue to furnish water, although it cost more. l I saw one farmer who-N How is the potato cropP' "Pota oes! You never saw the likel A man in Sedgwick County dug n potato the other day that was so big he used the cavity it grew in for a cellar. I saw one potato that---n
 The people must be happy over their big cropsp'
 ''Happyl You never saw the like. I know men in the Arkansas valley who were too poor this time last year to flag bread wagon. and now they have pie three times day Ono fel- | low that
 But tho reporter, just at this point, had pressing engagement elsewhere. -kansas City Times