The Globe-republican., 1890-06-25
Never Saw the Like.

Never Saw the Like.
Every one who comes to Kansas City
from Kansas these days has his own par
ticular stock Of stories to tell about the
wonderful crops in that state. Among
TIE Sunfiower pilgrims who landed III
the city on Saturday was Charley Barrett.
the goOd-lOaking and talkative travelling
passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific.
He had spent four or five days in southern
and southwestern Kansas. and his mouth
was going at the rate Of five hundred
revolutions minute about crops. when
he was tagged by Tines man on Main
street. What he exclaimed. .'you
southern Kansas lad to rent the public
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 crop:"
Fruit You never saw the like. APP
pies 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 seen 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 crOp:''
''BrOm-cOrn. You ucver saw the like
There hasn't been cloudy day in
southern Kansas for Il month Can't
cloud up. The broom-cOrn grew so high
that it kept the clouds swept off the face
of the sky as clean as a new floor They
will have to cut the corn down if it gets
too dry. Some 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 corr is as high as house.
They use step-ladders to gather roast
ing ears
aren't step-ladders pretty expen-
sive?''
Expensive, Well. l should say so.
But that isn't the worst of it. The trouble
is that the children climb up into the
corn stocks to hnnt for eagles nests and
sometimes fall out and kill themselves.
Fourteen funerals in one county last week
from that cause. / attended all of them.
This is why am so sad. And. mind YOU.
the corn is not more than half grown. \
man at Dodge City has invented ma
chine which he calls the solar corn har-
vester and child protector 1t is intlat-
ed with gas like a balloon and floats over
the corn tops. and the occupants reach |
down and cut off the ears of corn
with cavalry sabre. Every Kansas far
mer has ii cavalry sabre, and''-
''DO they make much cider in Kan
sas?''
Cider. You Rever saw the like.
Oceans of it. Most of the farmers i'm
Cowley county have filled their cisterns
Will SiucI. "A proposition was made
few days since to the waterworks COM
pany of Arkansas City to supply the town
with cider through the mains, but the
company were compelled to decline be-
cause they were afraid the cider would
rust the pumps. They were sorry. but
they say they would have to continue to
furnish water, although it cost more. |
saw one farmer who'--
How is the potato crop:''
Potatoes. You never saw the like.
A man in Finney county dug potato
the other day that was so big he used
the cavity it grew in for cellar. | saw
one potato that''-
1.-The people must be happy over their
big crops:''
Happy, You never saw the like.
knew men in the Arkansas valley who
were too poor this time last year to FLAG
a bread wagon. and now they have pie
three times a day. One fellow that
But the reporter, just at this point. had
a pressing engagement observation-disclosures