Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-15
LAND OF MILK And HONEY
Observations of Visitor From Rice
county. A Good Advertisement for
Barber.

ing "sendof'' for Barber county in
his last weeks paper:
Friday morning, July 27th, this
publisher boarded the Frisco south,
bound for the land of milk and
honey, the far famed Sharon Val
ley of Barber county, accompanied
by his daughter Enid and son
Glenn.
The railroads do not seem to
have caught on to the Importance
@ of these yearly trips and have
not yet adjusted their time tables
to our convenience! One must
leave Lyons at 10 o'clock in the
morning not to arrive in Medicine
Lodge till 1890 at night while
coming back it is still worse-a
lay over at Attica, Wichita or
Hutchinson being necessary.
Barber county is in it this year.
Its wheat crop has been excellent
while its corn crop promises to be
immense will be because it
is now largely made The wheat
and cut alfalfa is being damaged
some by the daily rains but the
farmers solace themselves with the
thought that what is hurting the
one cropis making the other.
Many hundreds acres of alfalfa
have been put out in this country
since our first visit five years ago
and nearly every field has made
satisfactory returns. Howard Stone
seeded IS acres last September. His
first cutting this spring yielded 8
tons and his second II tons. I'M.
Hall seeded 40 acres last fall, turn
ed. his stock intoit before winter
set in and has kept $50 head of
hogs upon it all the time since be-
sides several head of horses and it
still yielded small cutting. Harry
NJ. Stone after two almost unsuc-
cessful seedlings, caught fine stand
land is now cutting his third crop
this season of over ton per cut
ting. This year the alfalfa and the
corn will turn out many a fine
bunch of cattle and hogs to buy
more land to raise more alfalfa
and corn to fatten more stock to
buy more land etc., ETC., ad inflnit-
um. The only trouble is to find
the more land to buy for the five to
fifteen dollar per acre land of five
years ago is now scarce at from
$50 to $50 per acre and Don't
want to SELF is the more frequent
reply when prices are asked.
The exRice countyites have all
done we'll and been we'll except
Mrs. D. n. Myers and Mrs. John
Welsh. They have both suffered
much during the past year and are
still far from we'll. Mrs. D. n.
Myers was able to be in town the
Saturday we were there. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Welsh have rented their
farm and will travel during the
coming year for her health. They
hope to hit Lyons among the first
places visited and will be warmly
welcomed by their host of old
friends here. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Drake have bought a farm and
moved upon it during the past
year but it is outside of our circle
and we missed seeing them this
year. Mrs. Welsh was with them
while John is patching OF helping
Howard Stone occasionally to
keep some of the good cooking of
Howard's wife from spelling.
The fruit is quite plentiful in
the Sharon Valley this year and
we were favored with a trip fbe-
tween showers through the fa-
nous orchard and vineyard of John
Dunkin who often consigns some
of his fruit to E. A. Richards. MIR.
Dunkin has only 40 acres and it is
about as sandy a piece as we ever
Saw but the sub-irrigation is SIM
| ply perfect and this with constant
cultivation brings Mr.. Dunkin a
crop every year wet or dry and he
probably makes a better living-up-
on this sandy 40 acres than scores
of his neighbors do upon their hun
dreds of acres. His vineyards COM
prises only about 21 acres but
there are 2I variety of grapes there
and every vine that we looked In
to was magnifcently loaded.
s. hos skenney is a candidate for
the nomination for the Republican
nomination for Sheriff of Barber
county again this year. This third
attempt ought to bring success,
and here's hopin.
/ As indicated by our associate
lastweek, we saw ssthe Stones, the
Halls, the Welshs, the Kenneys, the
Myers, but not the brakes, and al