The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-09
KANSAS 10 ALL RIGHT.
A Railroad Travelling Agent Tetls kA
porter About Arkansas Valley.

A Railroad Travelling Agent Tctls ia
porter About Arkansas Valley.
Every one who comes to Kansas City
from Kansas these days has his own par
ticular stock of stories to tell about ths
wonderful crops in that state. Among
the Suntlower pilgrims who landed in the
city Saturday was Charley barrett, the
good looking and laxative travelling pas
senger agent Of the Missouri Pacific. He
had spent four or five days in southern
Kansas, and his mouth was going at the
Fate of 500 revolutions minute about
crops when he was tagged by Times
man on Main street.
"Wheatw he exclaimed. ~ OH never
saw the like! The farmers down i'm
southern Kansas had to rent the public
roads to get room enough to stack the
wheat. Wash room enough in the fields
to hold the stacks. ! saw one
How is the fruit crop!"
Fruit! You never saw Eso tikei Ap-
pies as big as cannon balls growing in
clusters as big as haystacks. saw one
apple that
Don't the trees break DOWN."
"TreesI You never saw the like! The
farmers planted sorghum in the or,
chards, and the stalks grew up like tele-
graph poles and supported the limbs. |
saw one stalk of sorghum that was two
feet
How Is the broom corn crop?"
Broom cornl You never saw the
likel There hasn't been u cloudy day in
southern Kansas for a month Can't
cloud up. The broom corn grew % high
that it kept the clouds swept off the face
Ct the sky rs clean as a new floor. They
will have to cut the corn down If it gets
too dry. SorAe of the broom corn stalks
are SO high that
How is the corn crop?'
Corn! You never saw the like! Down
In the Neosho and Fall River and Arkan.
sas bottoms the corn is as high as IA
house They use stepladders to gather
roasting ears"
Aren't stepladders pretty expepstveT
"Expensivel Well. should say so
but that isn't the worst of it. The trouble
is that the children climb up into the
cornstalks 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 ! am so sad. And
mind you, the corn is not more than hall
grown. A man at Arkansas City has in
! vented machine which he calls The
Solar Corn Harvester and Child Pro
tector.' 1t is inflated with gas like bal
loon and floats over the corn tops, anC
the occupants reach down and cut of the
ears of corn with a cavalry saber Every
Kansas farmer has q cavalry saber
and"-
"I'o they make much cider in Kan
sas?"
Cider? You never saw the like
Oceans of it! Most of the farmers il
Crowley county have filled their cistern
with cider A proposition was made :
few days ago to the water WORKS com
pany of Arkansas City to supply tn
town with cider through the mains
but the company was compelled TO de
cline because they were afraid the eide
would rust the pumps. They were sorry
but they said they would have to con
tinue to furnish water, although it cos
more. l saw one farmer who
"How is the potato cropT
Potatoes! You never saw the like
A man in Sedgwick county dug potat
the other day that was SO big he used tn
cavity it grew in for cellar. saw on
potato that
THE people must be happy over thei
big crops?'
Happy! You never saw the like!
know men in the Arkansas valley VIII
were too poor this time last year to fla
bread wagon, and now they have pi
three times day. One fellow that
, But the reporter just at this point ha
apressing engagement elsewhere Kar
sas City Times.