Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1889-10-04

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 sunflower pilgrims who
landed in the city on Sunday was
Charley Barret, 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 revolutions minute about
crops, when he was tagged bya Times
man on Main street.
Wheat. y he exclaimed, 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
the fields to hold the stacks ! saw
one"
How is the fruit crops"
Fruit You never saw the like |!
Apples 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 cropT
Broom corn! 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 ii kept the clouds swept of
the face OF the sky as clean as new
floor. They will have to cut the corn
down II il gets too dry. Some OF the
broom-corn stalks are so high that"
"How is the corn cropi"
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 lad
ders to gather roasting ears"
Aren't step-ladders pretty expen-
sive ~
Expensive Well, should say so;
but that isn't the worst OF IL. The
trouble is that the children climb up
into the cornstalks to hunt eagles
nests and sometimes fall out and Kill
themselves. Fourteen funerals In one
county last week from that cause. l
attended all OF them, and 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 a ma
chine which he calls the solar corn
harvester and child protector IL Is
inflated with gas like balloon and
floats over the corn tops, and the oc-
cupants reach down and cut OF ears
OF corn with cavalry saber. Every
Kansas farmer has a cavalry saber
and"
do they make much cider In Kan
sasYn
Cider! You never saw the like
Oceans Of it, Most OF the farmers In
Crowley county have filed their cis-
terms with cider. A proposition was
made few days since 10 the water
works company Of Arkansas City To
supply the town with cider through
the mains, but the company was com
PEELED to decline because they were
afraid the cider would rust the puinps.
They were sorry, but they said they
would have to continue to furnish wa
ter, although II cost more. saw one
farmer who"
How II the potato cropT
Potatoes You never saw the likel
A man In Sedgwick county dug a po-
tato the other day that was 80 big he
used the cavity It grew In for cellar.
/ saw one potato that"
1.-THE people must be happy over
their big cropsf'
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 day. One fel-
low that"
But the reporter just at this point
had pressing engagement elsewhere.
Kansas City Times.