River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1889-10-03

NEVER SAW THE LIKE.
Cheering Items of News rom Southern
Kansas Farmers.

Cheering Items of News rom Southern
Kansas FarmerN
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 Sunhower 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 tagged by
Times man.
"Wheatm he exclaimed. You never
saw the like! The farmers down in
Southern Kansas had 10 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
-"
"IIow is the fruit.crop?n
"Fruiti You never saw the lil1el APP
pies as big as cannon balls growing in
clusters as big as haystacks | 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. | saw one stalk of sorghum
that was two feet
How is the broom-corn crop?"
Broom cornl You never saw the
like! There hasn't been a cloudy day in
Southern Kansas for a month. Can't
cloud up. The broom corn grew so
high that it kept the clouds swept off
the face of the sky rs 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, 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 Cf., mas invented machine
which ne calls The Solar Corn Har-
v3ster and Child Protector It Is in
flated 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?"
"Ciderp You never saw the likel
Oceans Of Isl 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 Arkanse-
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 &c
furnish water, although 1t cost more.
| saw one farmer who"
'tow is the potato cropP"
.,Pota uesi You never saw the like
A man in Sedgwick County dug Q
potato the other day that was so big
he used the cavity it grew in for
cellar ! saw one potato that
The people must be happy over
their big crops?'
Happy! You never saw the like
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 a day One fell
low that
But the reporter, just at this point,
had a pressing engagement elsewhere.