Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-26
never SAW THE LIKE.

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 Sunfower 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 a minute
about crops, when he was tagged by q
Times man.
''Wheatr' 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
''How is the fruit crop?"
Fruit! You never saw the like! APP
pies as big as cannon balls growing in
clusters as big as haystacks. I 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 a 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 a 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 crop"
''Corn! 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 step ladders pretty expen-
sive?"
Expensive! Well, 1 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. I
attended all of them. That is why I
am so sad. And, mind yor,, the corn is
not more than half grown. A man at
Arkansas City has invented a machine
which he calls The Solar Corn Har-
vester and Child Protector It is in
f1ated with gas like balloon and floats
over the corn tops. and the occupants
reach down and cut off the ears of corn
with cavalry saber. Every Kansas
farmer has a cavalry saber and"
do they make much cider in Kan
sas?"
Cider? You never saw the like!
Oceans of it! 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 company 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 have to continue to
furnish water, although it cost more.
saw one farmer who"
How is the potato crop?"
'.Pota oes! You never saw the like!
| A man in Sedgwick County dug
potato the other day that was SO big
he used the cavity 1t grew in for
cellar. / saw one potato that"
1.-The people must be happy over
their big crops?"
Happy! 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. One fell
| low that"
But the reporter, just at this point,
had q pressing engagement elsewhere.
kansas City Times.
There are two things that make q
man feel about the size of pima
thunder storm on top of the Catskills
and first sight of Niagara Falls. OF
course. there are men who consider