The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-09-15


II wise for us to continue to make 1t
our principal crop? Experience has
shown that Jerusalem corn, kamr
corn, and all similar grains Of the
sorghum family, return good yleid
here in even the dryest years. Ex-
perience has shown too that clover
and timothy and blue grass and mil
let almost never fail OF COOS crop.
Why wouldn't it be good sense 10
quit trying to raise crop that iaiis
five years out of six, and substitute
crops that succeed hve years out OF
six? We have been looking up this
tame hay question lately. and have
been surprised to find how profitable
1t has been. We have learned of q
farmer up in Anderson county who
has given nearly his entire farm to 1t
for the past five or six years, and who
has got rich out of it. This year, for
example, he cleared nearly 5000 from
the blue grass seed which he sold of
of so acres, not counting the hay
which he had left. Mr.. Beck tells US
he has shipped over 800 worth of
blue grass seed this summer, and that
the men who raised it realized profit
of $40 an acre from their ground. And
there is Mr.. Minor, near town, who
had % acres of Red Top this year
from which he has sold already $9l
worth and thinks he has 800 worth
left. With such results Is these 1t is
foolish to say that tame grasses are
still an experiment In Kansas. They
are as certain q crop here as they are
anywhere. And in addition to being
directly profitable, they are valuable
to restore worn out ground. We know
a farmer near lola who has corn this
wear on soil which has been In clover
for several years. He has q great
big crop, while his neighbOr, just
across the road has hardly anything.
Roth are good farmers and the rain
fell on both fields alike. The differ
epce is in the soil. For all these reas-
ons It seems to us that 1t would be
wise for us to quit making corn our
main stay, and lean on some other
staff that is not so likely to break,
quit trying to do something We can't.
and go to doing something we can.
We wish some of our farmer readers
would tell us, in brief letters for pub
LEGATION, what they think of these
suggestions.
Star: The little Shiloh church,
which gave its name to the great bat
tlefield, is to be rebuilt as 1t was in
1862. Thus do the outward and WISH
BILE signs of peace return. The great
fight occurred in forest country,
broken bv small fields, the only build
ing of note in the whole area over
which the armies centended being
this uralsmeeting house of Shiloh"
Years ago Nature repaired damages;
the scars on the battle-tOrn trees heal
ed over; every trace the struggle had
left ON the face of the earth was re-
moved, Now man comes back to the
place of frightful memories and builds
the ruined sanctuary, whence shall
rise the prayers for and the songs Of
an eternal peace.
Whether or not you will patronize q
newspaper, says an exchange, is not
the question of your consideration. Ii
YOU are in bushes the question L.:
"Can you afford to remain out of the
columns of your local newspapers"
Can you afford to neglect your busi-
ness to such an extent? 1t Is for you
to consider how much you may loose
by keeping silent and not letting the
public know you are in business and
want your share of their trade. When
YOU have no bargains to offer then 1t
is time to stop advertising and close
the doors of your establishment.
The new postal money orders which
have been ordered by the government
will soon be issued. In the system
there is little or no complication.
cNl ~
amounts from one cent to $3, which
can be torn off to suit the purchaser.
The postmaster will have no writing
to do on it; the sender simply endors-
es it the same as check or draft.
One cent will pay charges In any
amount: to So instead of five as at
present.
John LaDue, one of the men indict-
ed by the grand jury for violating the
prohibitory law on eighteen different
counts, plead guilty to five counts
during the adjourned term Of court
held last Friday and was sentenced
by Judge Stillwell to Imprisonment
i'm the county jail for one hundred and
fifty DAYS, thirty days for each Of the
five counts, and also to pay $lOO.W
for each one of the counts and the
costs of prosecution, aggregating III
all to $3.50. Verify the way OF the
transgressor il hard.
William Webb. who will be re,
membered as one of the men who tried
to hold up an NJ. X. & L. railroad
train at Moran some time ago. plead
guilty during the adjourned term o
Court to the charge Of attempting tt
commit grand larceny and was sen
fenced by Judge Stillwell to one years
Imprisonment in the penitentiary 81
hard labor. Sheriff Hobart took hin
to Leavenworth Sunday.
An exchange says that If bones are
pounded into small pieces, deposited
around the trees and grape vines, aDC
chopped in with hoe, they will show
good results for years, as they slowly
give up their constituent particles
This is better than having them dry
I'D and decay on the surface OF the
ground, where they are useless. Save
and utilize all the pieces Of drteG
benes.
Mccullough & Alyea Bros Comedy
Company have been in lola this weei
giving their entertainments in . larg'
tent. AS their manager remarked
thew shave not Booth and Barrett
company" but they give o pretty
fair show for the price Of admission
10 and Is cents. They will be her
tonight and tomorrow night.
C.G. Null returned from his eastern
trip to the Worlds Fair and the In
dianopolis Encampment Saturday
He went to Springfield, Mo-. Monda.
to take his little daughter to school
returning here Tuesday. Con" say
he had q picnic while at the Encamp
ment, and the Worlds Fair Is "tO'