Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1908-09-30
KANSAS GETS THE PRIZE.
Some Interesting Stories ofthe Corn Grown
in That State.

Some Interesting Stories Of the Corn Grown
in That State.
The veracity of the Kansas farm
er is never doubted, hence the
State Board of Agriculture is max.
ing preparations to hire men to
assist in the harvesting of the
greatest crop Of grain the State
has ever known. In addition to
common harvest hands, the de-
partment is looking for 10000
good axmen, who according to re-
ports, are needed to 81 sist in
harvesting the crop. The yield Is
a little above the average, with
stalks running from three to five
feet through, and ears of corn any
where from nine feet to twenty
feet in length. In fact the corn
crop is so heavy that it has mar
rowly escaped causing a lot of
casualties.
At Garden City, Bill Sincaller
and his family had a narrow es-
cape from death. A stalk Of corn
growing in the yard was blown
over by the wind and crashed
through the roof of his house,
almost completely demolishing the
building. Bill was pinned in bed,
but his eldest son, Frank, chopped
away the stalk after al hour of
hard work and extricated the old
man.
Experiments conducted by the
Metropolitan Water Company at
Medicine Lodge. Kan, with the
reinforced cornstalk pipes have
proven successful. and a company
to manufacture them has been or.
gained. 1t is estimated that pipe
can be placed on the market at
one-tenth the cost of cast iron
pipe, and the new material will.
outwear the iron. The supply OF
raw material is inexhaustable
The company will be stocked fol
SIS, 900, 900.
Great excitement was caused a.
Fort Ri>ey when Troop N. Six
tenth cavalry, which had beel
participating in the maneuvers hi
night before, failed to report il
camp. A scout learned that they
were hemmed in by immense corn
stalks and unable to get out, ano
fastened into camp with the news
The seige batteries were ordered
out with the engineer battalion
and after working all night chop
ping and dynamiting they got 6
trail cut through and the troops
returned to camp this morning.
A fast stock train on the B. & M
was wrecked a mile east of Enter.
prise by a cornstalk which had
fallen across the track. The Ell.
CINE was demolished. Several
similar accidents have narrowly
been averted near here recently,
and the trains have been given
slow orders when passing corn
fields.
Col. John Golong, of Exerter
township, has captured the $500
prize offered by the County Fair
ASSOCIATION for a unique corn ex-
hibit. Taking his blowing engine,
he hltched 46 farm wagons IN
double column behind it and then
ran the train along his cornfeld By
means of block and tackle arrange
ment he loaded on his train one
of the largest stalks. Hauling
this to the fair grounds, he I'M
loaded it Oh the midway and had
1T followed out. In each of the
sections he displayed some of the
products of his 1900 acre farm,
and in the middle section fur
nished up comfortable quarters
for his family during fair week.
With the denuding of the for
ests and the continual increase in
the price of lumber, a new indus
try has splung up at Leoti, Kan.
in the manufacture of weather
boarding, fencing and such ma
terial out of the cornstalks. The
cornstalk timber has been found
to wear as we'll az wood, and the