The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-08-22
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Wonderful stories About the CrOps In
Kansas.

Wonderful Stories About the Crops In
Kansas.
Everyone who comes to Kansas
City from Kansas these days has his
OWN particular crop of stories to tell
about the wonderful crops in that
state. Among the Sunfiower pilgrims
who landed in the city last Saturday
was Charley Barrett, the good looking
and laxative travelling passenger
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 he was tagged by a
Times man on Main street.
Wheat" 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 fields to hold the stacks. saw one
-D
How is the fruit CROP"
Fruit! You never saw the like! APP
Piles as big as cannon balls growing in
clusters as big as hay stacks. saw
one apple that"
Don't the trees break down."
Trees! You never saw the like!
The farmers planted sorghum in the
olCAdlO I'd anu IuO Sddlho grew uP La .
telegraph poles and supported the
limbs. 1 saw one stalk Of sorghum
that was two feet"
How is the broom corn cropT
Broom corn! You never saw the
like! There hasn't been cloudy day
in southern Kansas for d 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 il it gets too drye Some of the
broom corn stalks are SO high that -
How is the corn crOp?'
''CornI You never saw the like!
Down in the Neosho and Fall river
and Arkansas bottoms the corn is as
high as house. They have to use step
ladders to gather roasting ears"
Aren't step ladders pretty expen-
siye?"
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 has invented ma
chine which he calls The Solar Corn
Harvester and Child Protector It is
inflated with gas like a balloon, and
floats over the corn tops and the occu-
pants reach down and cut off the ears
of corn with a cavalry saber. Every
Kansas farmer has Il cavalry Sabel
and -
do they make much cider in Kan
sas?''
Cider! You never saw the like
Oceans of it! Most of the farmers il
| Cowley county have filled their cisterns
with cider. A proposition was made &
few days since to the water works com
pany of Arkansas City to supply thu
| town with cider through the mains
but the company was compelled to de
cline becausC they were afraid thu
cider would rust the pumps. They
were sorry, but said they would havt
to continue to furnish water, although
| it cost more. | saw one farmer wht
How is the potato crop?"
Potatoes! You never saw the like
A man in Sedgwick county dug pota
| to the other day that was so big n
| used the cavity IT grew in for cellar
| saw one potato that -
':The people must be happy owe
their big cropS?"
Happy! You never saw the like.
know men in the Arkansas valley WhC
were too poor this time last year t.
! flag bread wagon. and now they have
pie three times day. One fellow tina
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But the reporter, just at this point
had pressing engagement else where
TX. c. Times.