The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-09-05

followed by others In the near fu-
ture. DIR. Buck, who has charge Of
the station, says the industry h
steadily growing. and that more
coco0ns have been reeled this
season than any year since the
station was established.
The sixth annual meeting OF the
Kansas Equal Suffrage association
SiH be heid In witehffa. Kansas,
Oct. I, 2 snd 3, beginning at $50 on
l the afternoon OF Oct. I. On the two
succeeding days the public sessions
will open 81 10 \. m, and ut p. m.
and all the evening sessions at T:3o.
Miss Susan b. Anthony and Mrs.
Clara b. Colby, editor Of the
woman's Tribune, with other
speakers from abroad will be pre-
sent.
John brown, the son Of John
Brown whose ''soul goes marching
on" IL nearly 20 years Of age and
wears q full beard and mustache.
His hair and beard are gray aud he
IL said 10 resemble his father. John
| Brown has q deep reverence for the
memory Of his father, and the song
"John Browns Body Lies houlder-
ing 10 the Grave" moves him to
tears. He lives on Kelley island. In
| Lake Erie, near where Commodore
Perry defeated the English In 1912,
aud raises grapes, which, being q
strict prohibitionist, he will never
sell 20 anyone who intends TO make
wine from them. He has q wife and
two children.
IT.. ,,,...ar.d ..ra ~ ,xround
which has been sown In wheat an
nually for the past nine years, with
out any manure Of any Kind upon II,
has produced seven crops In the nine
years,-twO being total failures from
nter-killlng,-the least OF which
n thirty-seyen bushels of thinner
man wheat, and the largest forty
seven bushels. The total product
divided by nine, gives an average
annual product, including the years
Of failure, Of ai.g bushels. The soil
il the ordinary bench land Of the
Kaw Valley, Inclined toward fhe
east; but gaining no drip Of fertillz-
ing material from any higher level.
II IL such good wheat land ~ Kan
sas abounds in.-AdRhaitdH Indus
tridlist.
Prof. II. Edison, the government
chemist, has been ut medicine Lodge
for the past few days making an ex-
animation of the cane fields and in
making chemical tests OF cane juices
from various paintings and different
fields, with a view to determining
their value for the manufacturing Of
sugar. He finds that the lowest per
rent OF sugar In samples IL 9.36 per
cent, the highest 1885, per cent, while
the average Of fourteen samples
shows u 20 per cent, which IL ex-
ceedinglv rich when Il IL reirem-
bered that the cane IL not yet ripe.
The figures are from experiments
made with early amber cane. He
thinks that many fields OF cane will
furnish twenty tons to the acre, and
nothing now growing on old ground
will yield less than twelve tons TO
the acre. The company erecting the
sugar plant nj Medicine Lodge have
out several experimental fields OF
sugar beet, and Professor Edison
chemically tested these and ascer-
tanned that IL was not unusual TO lind
l.3j per cent of sugar In the speci-
mems tested. He Is Of the opinion
that the manufacture Of sugar from
Kansas beets can he carried on
very successfully. This year the
works will handle but 100 tons Of
sugar beets sufficient for one stuke,
but next year large average will be
planted II the experiments are salts.
factory.