The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-17
THE SUNFL0wER STATE.
Bennett Palmer 10 Kansas, Tells Of The
Crops, and How They Hunt Rabbits.

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/ STOCKTON, Kas., Jan 5.-Mr
Editor, If you will permit me,
will take this method of talking
to my oldtime Fulton county
friends. OF course, some oi
them may think am just full Of
Kansas wind, like some other
people that have written from
tnis breezy state, but such is not
the case; l am as well as ever /
was IN my life. So here goes for
my story:
l left Miffiin county, Pa, on
tue 9th of last September, over
the "Pennsy," stopped IN Pitts.
burg couple of days with my
sister Louise, went on to St.
Louis, where I stayed five hours,
and then steamed on to Fairfield,
Iii. In that city and surround
ing country, l stayed about six
weeks. While | was told that
country was very fine for wheat,
| saw but little of that kind of
grain, the chlntz bugs having eat
en- 1t soon after the crop had been
sown. In the absence of wheat
crop, farmers were depending on
Redtop grass seed as their main
crop. After the threshing of the
grass, dealers in grass seed
would go around among the farm
ers and take samples of the seed,
grade 1t, md name price. The
grading is done by taking small
quantity, sitting the dirt and
chaff out, then weighing the
cleaned seed, and thus estimat-
Ing the value of the farmers en-
tire crop. The scheme is the
same as when a dealer gees to a
farmer aud says, 81 will not
name you price on your wheat
as it came from the separator,
but we will take a bushel of IT..
clean 1t thoroughly, and I will
pay you in proportion as the
cleaned wheat is to the unclean.
eI." UnderstandS
They claimed to have a good
crop Of corn. AS 1 saw it In
Wayne county, theaverage would,
l suppose, be twenty seven to
thirty bushels the acre.
Leaving Fairfield, arrived at
Hlawatha, Brown county, Kas.,
on the 18th of Novemb Der, and
stayed in that section about five
weeks.
While | did not travel over as
mach of the country here as |
did IN southern Illinois, l find
that the land does not lie as fat
here IS there. In Illinois the
so fiat that you cannot
tell which way the streams are
flo wing unless you follow along
them; and then you are not sure
whether you are gong to the riv.
or or to the source of the stream,
until you reach one or the other.
| have seen very little of the land |
n Kansas that is perfectly level, |
Ind yet native of Fulton county |
would not be likely to think 1T
lilly. You may stand on a little
and see several towns
md cities. They do not seem to
De far away, but if you inquire
bout the distance, you are likely
% be told that they are anywhere
ro n fifteen to forty miles away.
The land Is full of little "hol-
ows" which affords excellent
lrainage.
While in Brown county 1 tried
ny hand "shrcking" corn, as
hey say here, but | found that |
;ould only gather about half as
much IN day as those who were
ccustomed TO the work. The
orn was fairly good, in the fase
Il the fact that it had had but
ne ram after wheat harvest.
some of the crops / saw, made
bout AZ bushels to the acre.
hat means about 80 bushels of
helled corn; for when corn Is
poken OF here by the bushel,
helled corn is always meant.
The growing wheat In Brown
'onnty looks fine, and there is
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