Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1898-04-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas was visited by a hard and
soaking rain Sunday.
Efingham claims to send more good
horses to eastern markets than any
town in the state.
]. G. Turner's store at Sterling was
entered Thursday night, and few dol
lars worth of cutlery taken.
1t is estimated that there are about
1000 insane persons in Kansas in the
state asylums and county institutions.
Nothing so rifles a Kansas man who
wants to get excited as to tell him that
he will have to wait until day after to-
morrow.
Brewster E. Kies has sold his horse
Merrick Dyer, who is full brother to
John R. Gentry, to Joel Haws, of Mag
nolia, Ill.
The bondsmen of Paddy Shea have
consented to the release of Slattery
from the bond, and Shea has been given
his freedom.
No wonder our little boys gladly
plunge into the blood and sweat of war,
when all we offer them at home is q
course in vertical handwriting.
The o. S. senate has passed bill toI
extend 800, OOOto the University of Kan
sas as relief. Among the other bills
passed were; To authorize the secretary
of the interior to issue permit to the
American Invalid society of Boston to-
occupy 100 acres of land on the aban-
doned Fort Stanton military reserva-
ton for the treatment of pulmonary
diseases, and to extend the right of
Communication to certain homestead set
tiers on lands in Oklahoma, opened to
settlement under the provisions of law.
The chronological department of
the Kansas State Agricultural college
has discovered within the state the
presence of a serious orchard pest,
known as the "Cigar Case Bearer"
(Coleophora fetcherella). This is the
first detection of its presence in orch
ards in the vicinity of the college
grounds. The fruit growers of the
east have met with serious losses from
the attacks of this insect duriug the
past few years, it being held in check
only by most active measures. The
larvae are encased during the feeding
period in cases resembling miniature
cigars. At this season of the year they
feed upon buds and tender, expanding
leaves of the apples, plum, pear, etc.
A full description and study of the in
sect is about to be issued by the state
department.
A bulletin compiled from reports of
correspondents in nearly every county
in the state, setting forth the present
condition of the growing winter wheat;
the percentage of failure, by counties,
if any, and its cause; acreage sown to
oats as compared with last year, the
present condition of the soil for work.
ing, is issued this week by the state
board of agriculture. As a whole, the
condition of wheat is very favorable and
in many counties exceptionally promis-
ing, with but small percentage of
failure from all causes The acreage
sown to oats appears to be slightly in
creased. No damage by the cold
weather of March 1924 is reported.
In much of the state the soil is thor
oughly saturated, and in some of the
eastern counties entirely too wet for
present working. In the main, present
conditions are excellent indeed.
Practically every farmer in Kansas ID
acquainted with the canker worms.
Those who did not know it before, re-
ceived an introduction year ago It
made its appearance in every county in
the state and ravished the orchards so
that the fruit crop was partially dam
aged. 1t proved the severest pest that
the farmers of Kansas had been called
on to encounter for a number of years.
This year it promises to be with the
Kansas farmer again. The promise is
of such a sincere nature that Mr. Fred
erick Wellhouse, president of the State
Horticultural society, has issued a
warning to the fIuit growers of Kansas
to prepare for a battle with the pest.
He says that the indications are that
the worm will be more in evidence this
spring than ever before in the history
of the state. From the men in charge
of his orchard in this state. which have
earned for him because of their extent.
the title of the Kansas apple king, adj
vices have been received that already
the female moths are making their APP
pearanee in great numbers, and that
the pest of last spring only more severe,
IS to be repeated. The female moths
are wingless and crawl up the trees and
deposit the eggs which produce the
worms.
Surface indications and sub-mud in