The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-04-03


A business man Of Cheney ofiers
TO loan farmers easter beans Tor seeo
and buy ali they raiss at u bushsi.
II Il 90 hard 10 ind houses for
rent at ArkAnsas City that Il has
been proposed 10 move Q few over
from Wichita:
Mrs.. Ann Ferry, whe vss buried
the other day st Leavenvorth, bad
reached the remarkable age Of llS
years.
which are without regularly organs
iEsd Sunday School associations.
Hogs and cattle In large numbers
are being shipped out Of Northwest
ern Kansas this spring.
The State Sunday School union
will be IS years old on May z, ana
u will celebrate It, quarter centen-
MEL ct Hutchinson on that date.
The impression obtains that the
next Kansas Legislature Sill reduce
the rate Of interest 10 SIX per cent.
There II one hind Of farming that
will not pay IN KAnsss-trying 70
raise crops on dry goods boxes and
street. corners.
Gov. Humphrey II now receiving
petitions from farmers all over the
state urging him not TO call an extra
session Of the legislature.
The Troy Chief suggests that NJ.
A. Dauphln, OF Louisiana lottery
notoriety, be placed at the head Of
the State University, because he is
the greatest "chAnce-sellsr" living.
The chief liberalization Of crops
which the farmers Of Kansas vii
engage In this year will be the d.
veFsified crop Of candidates which
the Alliance will produce.
About the best boom that could
strike some towns that might be
named would be q visitation Of some
epidemic that would remove the
human caFbuneles which impede
their progress.
Two Kansas women who were In
the recent Cherokee Strip excite
nsnt tell the following: They met
q man on O claim and asked him
what he would take for IL. He re.
piled: Five cents for the claim and
q nickle for myself" As the two
went together there was no trade.
The AtchisOn Champion ventures
the prediction that corn In Kansas
| will be from twelve 10 fifteen ceLti
higher than at present prices inside
| Of the next four months. All the
farmers have 10 do IL to hold the
balance on hand.
IL has only been within the past
Ave or six years that much attention
has been paid TO dairying iu Kansas
Up TO that time it was quite o CON-
mon thing to see farmer with from
i 50 TO $50 cows who MIXED only
three or four Of them and allowed
Il the calves TO run with the rest
/ That sort Of shiftlessness has played
out, and there are now los cream
cries In Kansas.
Osbsrue Farmer: IL Osborne
secures the new projected line Of
railroad, the Missouri Pacific will
be compelled 10 push Its line to 9
western connection. Such o move
would work Incalculable benefit
to this immediate country. We
have been sorely In need Of q west
ern outlet for many years, and when
we once obtain IL, the rapidity with
which this portion Of Kansas will
develop cannot at the present time
be imagined.
Concordia Empire: 8. ID. Grimm
who IL q practical potato raiser, says
that potatoes can be grown In Kan
sas nj q cost Of three cents q bushe
under favorable circumstances. He
raised z, 500 bushels just west OF the
city the past year, but the Hood In
July washed his patch 30 rs TO ruin
g good portion Of the crop, making
the average cost Of what he dug
about seven cents q bushel. He
plants his potatoes from the LIST q
4 the 10Th Of June. He has on hand
:. 400 bushels of the Blue Victor va
riety, the kind that carried off the
Empire premium last fall.
Wichita Eagle: The "Big Four
counties Of Butler, Cowley, Sedg
wick and Sumner contain more thar
four times the number Of hogs 81 J
months old and over than the stat,
Of Connecticut; 5000 more horses
5000 more sheep; and nearly a
many cattle, including milch cows
| although Of the latter the nutmet
state makes q speciality, in the dairy
industry, while the aggregate value
of ours IL only little less than OF the
Connecticut aggregate with ell Ia
advantages of markets, etc. Such
facts are the bases Of our claims Il
supremacy.