The Press., 1889-09-05
CHEERING FARM NEWS FROM 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 Charley Barrett, the good looking and talkative travelling passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific. He had spent fonr or five days ill southern Kansas, and his mouth was going at the rate of 500 revolutions minute about crops, when he was Jagged by Times man on Main street.
 s'Wheat!' he exclaimed, "you never saw the like The farmers down in south ern Kansas had to rent the public roads to get room enough to stack the wheat. Wasn't room enough in, the fields to hold the stacks. I saw one"
 "How is the fruit crop?"
 sFruit You never saw the like Ap- ples as big as cannon balls growing in clusters as big as haystocks. I saw one pie that"
 "Don't the trees break down ?"
 "Trees You never saw the like The farmers planted sorgum in the orchards and the stakes grew up like telegraph poles and supported the limbs. 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 south ern 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 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 ?" "Corr You never saw the like Down N.ll 1 k,.1-. | bottoms the corn is as high as house. They use step ladders to gather roasting | ears."
 'Arent step ladders pretty expensive?" ?" Expensive? Well,' I 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 some times fall out and kill themselves. Four teen funerals in one county last week from that cause. I attended all of them. That | is why am so sad. And, mind you, the corn is not more than alf-grown. A man at Arkansas City has invented machine which he calls The Solar Corn Harvester and Child Protector It is inflated with gas like balloon and floats over the corr tops, and the occupants reach down ano cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry sabre Every Kansas farmer has cavalry sabre, and"
 "Do they make much cider in Kansas ?
 "Cider? You never saw the like Oceans of it! Most of the farmers 1T Crowley county have filled their cistern' with cider. A proposition was made [ few days since to the waterworks company of Arkansas City to supply the town witt 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 have to continue to furnish water, altho' i ) cost more. saw one farmer who" I "How is the potato crop?"
 "Potatoes? You never saw the like ! 4 man in Sedgwick county dug potato tho other day that was so big he used the cav ity it grew in for cellar. I saw one DO tato that"
 'The people must be happy over thei1 big crops ?"
 "Happy? You never saw the like know men in the Arksnsas valley who were too poor this time last year to flag bread wagon, and now they have pie three times a day. One fellow that" l But the reporter, just at this point, hao a pressing engagement elsewhere. .-Kdns | GS CStu Times.