The Springdale news., 1889-09-27
NEVER SAW THE LIk |.
Cheering Items Of News from southern
 Kansas Farmers.

 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 Sunhowor pilgrims who landed in the cisg recently was Charley Barrett He Lad spent four or five days in Southe.l Kansas, and his mouth was goiug 1t the rate of five hundred revolutions minute about crops, when he was Jagged by Times man.
 "Wheat!" heexclaimed. "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 tho fields to hold the stacks. saw one
 'How is the fruit erop?n
 Fruit! You never saw the like, Alp. pies as big as cannon balls growing in clusters as big as haystaclzs. saw one tPPle lhat--
 Don the trees break downan
 ''frees. 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--1
 How is the broom-eorn crop?"
 Broom corn! You never saw the like! There hasn't beena cloudy day in Southern Kansas for month. Can't cloud up. The broom corn grew So high that it kept the clouds swept oil the face Of the sky as clean as new floor They will have to cut the corn down if it gets too dry. Some of the broom-eorn stalks are 50 high that---'
 "How is the corn erop?'
 Corn. You never saw the like: Down in the Neosho and Fall river aud Arkansas bottoms the corn is as high as house. They use step ladders to gather roasting ears
 Aren't step ladders pretty eXpen- 5ive?''
 ''Expensivel We'll, I should say so; l 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 l am so sad. And. mind you, the corn is not more than half grown. \ man at Arkansas City has invented q machine which he calls The Solar Corn Har- vester and Child Protector. IL is in- hated with gas like d balloon and floats over the corn tops, and the occupants reach down and cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry saber. Every Kansas farmer has q cavalry saber and" Do they make much cider in Kan sas?e
 "Gider9 You never SAW the like! Oceans oft! Most Of the farmers in Crowley County have filed their cisterns with cider. \ proposition was made few days since to the water-worlls company of Arkansas City 10 supply the town with cider through the mains. but the company was competed 10 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. 1 saw one farmer who--H
 How is the potato crop?"
 "Pota oes, You never saw the liSei A man in Sedgwicl1 County dug a potato the other day that was so big he used the cavity it grew in for q cellar. l saw one potato that
 .'The people must be happy over their big crops?o
 Happy, You never saw the like. l 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 fel- i low that--H
 But the reporter, just at this point had pressing engagement elsewhere. Kansas City Times.