Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-09-21
The Big Crops Of Kansas.

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Everyone 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 ON Saturday was Charley
Barrett, the good-looking and laxative travel
ing 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 minute about crops, when he
was tagged by Times man on Main street
Wheat" 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. l saw one apple that"
Don't the trees break down?'
Trees! You never saw the like! The farm
ers planted sorghum in the orchards and the
| stalks grew up like telegraph poles and sup
ported the limbs. saw one stalk of sorghum
| that was 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 crop
grew 80 high that it kept the clouds swept of
the face of the sky as clean as a new fioor.
/ Ihey Will have to cut the corn down if it gets
| too dry. Some of the broom cornstaIks are SO
| high that"
| "How is the corn crop?"
| Corn! You never saw the like! Down in
| the Neosho and Fall River and Arkansas bot
toms the corn is as high as house. They use
step-iadders to gather roasting ears"
AREN'T step ladders pretty expensive?"
Expensive. Well, l should say 30; but that
isn't the worst of it. The trouble is that the
children climb up into the cornstalks to hunt
eagles nests and sometimes fall out and kin
| themselves. Fourteen funerals in one county
| last week from that cal1se I attended all Nos
| 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 machine which
| he calls the solar corn harvester and child
protector 1t Is inflated with gas like balloon
and iioats over the corn tops and the occupants
reach down and cut off ears of corn with a
cavalry saber. Every Kansas farmer has cav
| airy saber and"
do they make much cider in Kansas?"
Cider? You never saw the like! Oceans of
1t! Most OF the farmers in Crowley county
have filed their cisterns with cider. propo-
| sition was made q few days since to the water
works company Of Arkansas City to supplv 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 thew
would have 10 continue to furnish water. AZ
though it cost more. saw one farmer who,
"How is the potato crop?"
| fotatoes You never saw the like! A man
that was so big he used the cavity ii grew ~
for . cellar. saw one potato that"
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Happy! You never saw the like! Itnov
men IN the Arkansas valley who were too poor
now they have pie three times day. One
fellow that"
But the reporter just at this point had /.
pressing engagement elsewhere.