The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-15
THEY ALL TALK CORN
FIFTY THOUSAND BUSHELS ABE
RAISED ON ONE FARM.
What Reporter Hears in His Rounds-
Plenty Of Sedgwick County Farmers
will have Big Cribs of Corn-some or
the Old Timers Fear the Big Corn Crop
will Cause Hog Cholera to be shipped In
Cheney Man Feeds His Hogs-What II
all Means to Southern kansas-Prosper-
ity Crossing the Threshold.

The corn crop is the subject OF gen.
erai discussion at this time on the street
and in the stores. hotels and at the
stock yards.
When reporter meets a man from
the country or some of the surround
ing towns and asks for an item of news
the invariable answer is Eyes, l have
some news"
Then the reporter will get out his
note book and draw him to the outer
edge of the sidewalk or get a seat in
some stairway or a chair in the hotel
and proceed to listen for the news item.
Then he will feel like dropping dead
OF disappointment when the farmer or
merchant or shipper begins to tell that
the corn crop in his particular neigh
borhood beats any other corn ever
raised on earth before.
That same news the reporter has
been hearing for a month and men who
had early varieties Of corn two weeks
ago that was the finest corn ever raised
now find that their later varieties is the
better
There are wonderful estimates made
of Sedgwick county's corn and Mr.. G.
Wood Davis is quoted for authority
when in fact the great Sedgwick coun-
ty statistican said yesterday that he
never made any estimate OF the corn
crop of Sedgwick county.
He declared that he did not even
know the acreage of the county. When
he figures on crops he takes countries
and not counties and has the supply of
the world and each nation at his tom
CUES end but he never descends 10
townships or counties.
People are ready 10 believe any ex-
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if there is no recognized authority to
back it w. There are. however, two
things that are generally conceded.
First that we have an excellent crop
of corn and second that we have a
greatly increased acreage this year.
Every day farmers and feeders are
in the city inquiring for some section
where they have light corn crop and
where stock hogs can be bought.
Then again there are some wise old
farmers who shake their heads know
ingly and declare that farmers will
sustain a loss this year equal to one
third of their corn crop.
When asked to explain these old
timers remark that hogs will he brought
into southern Kansas from other states
to be fed and they say when this hap
pens we always ship in the hog cholera
and the loss of hogs will equal one
third of the corn crop.
This thing they say always happens
when we have an unprecedented corn
crop.
One farmer said yesterday that he
remembered that several years ago he
thought it was in 1889 that we had an
outrageous big crop of corn and that
Bill Green went to Missouri or some
where east of the Flint hills and bought
hogs to eat his corn and with them he
brought cholera that killed every hog
along the river from Chisholm creek
to Spring creek.
There are some big stories told at
the Union Stock yards about farmers
who have big crops of corn. One man
declared that Harvey Horner at Che
ney had 500 hogs and corn enough TO
feed them out. Another declared that
Robinson Bros, had $4,000 bushels Of
corn on their farm near Towanda.
There are plenty of farmers in Sedg-
wick county who have in as much as
200 acres Of corn that at a safe -calcula-
ton will make so bushels per acre and
10 600 bushels of corn Will be a pretty
nice ornament to a Kansas farm.
This corn crop means fat hogs and
fat cattle for the next two years. It
means that the two big packing houses
at Wichita will soon be running a their
full capacity and that the Union Stock
Yards company will have to build more
hog and cattle pens in the near future.
1t means that prosperity is crossing
the threshold of southern Kansas.