The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-29
NEVER SAW THE LIKE.
Cheering News From the Fsrminf
Regions of Southern Kansas.

AsCs AOL0 III COOG4tEn hduSdSs
From the Kansas City Times.
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 Sunflower
pilgrims who landed in the city on Satur-
day was Charley Barrett, the good-looking
and talkative 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 revolu-
tons minute about crops, when he was
tagged by Times man on Main street.
"Wheatw he exclaimed, ''you never saw
the like! The farmers down in Southern
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.
| saw one"
"How is the fruit crop?"
Fruit! You never saw the like! Apples
as big as cannon balls growing in clusters
as big as haystacks. 1 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. l saw
one stalk of sorghum that was two feet
-n
How is the broom corn cropw
Broom corn! You never saw the likel
There hasn't been cloudy dav in Southern
Kansas fora 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
cora down if it gets too dry. Some of the
| broom cornstalkS are so high that"
How is the corn cropm
Corn on never SAW fha llxai Down
in the Neosho and Fall river and Arkansas
bottoms the corn is as high as a house
They use step-ladderS to gather roast ing
ears"
AREN'T step-ladders pretty expensiveW
"Expensivei 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 some
| times fall out and kill themselves Four
teen funerals in one county last week from
that cause. l attended all of them. That
| is why l am so sad. And, mind you, the
corn is not more than half grown. A man
| at Arkansas City has invented machine
which he calls The Solar Corn Harvester
| and Child Protector 1t is inflated 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 sa-
Der. Every Kansas farmer has cavalry
saber, and"
DO they make much cidar in Kansasn'
''Cider? You never saw the like Ocea n
| of it! Most of the farmers in Crowley
| county have filed their cisterns with cider
A proposition was made a few days sine:
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 tC
continue to furnish water, although it cos
more. l saw one farmer who--n
"How is the potato cropW
Potatoes! You never saw the like! A
man in Sedgwick county dug a potato the
other day that was so big he used the cavity
it grew in for cellar. l saw one potato
that"
The people must be happy over their big
crops?'
Happy! You never saw the like! 1 know
men in the Arkansas valley who we're toe
poor this time last year to flag a bread
wagon, and now they have pie three times G
day. One fellow that"
But the reporter, just at this point, had 6
pressing engagement elsewhere.