The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-18
KANSAS C04AENT
CROP KILLERS,

| CROP KILLERS.
| Inc usual assortment of profess
slonai. paid crop killers has COM
menced TO get in its work.
A killer named Inglis sent in a re-
port to Chicago the other day that
Kansas and Oklahoma combined
WouIa not raise over 10000, 900
bushels of wheat this year. Where
upon the Chicago wheat pit had fit,
and went through a long programme
of spasms
Inglis is simply one of a large
number of crop prevaricators sent
| pit.
In few days. we may expect to
near 1t announced that the green
Dug has been discovered in Okla
homa. A week later. farmers on the
southern border of Kansas will dis
cover the green bug. In another
week the green bug will have reached
Barton county. and by the end of a
third week, the whole Kansas wheat
belt Will be ravaged by the deadly
louise.
And the wheat will keep right on
growing.
The Hessian fly will also be
| dragged out of his lair by the crop
the big wheat counties of the state,
for the purpose of causing the pit
price to advance cent or two
Black rust, boil weevil. fire-damp
and tape worm will also be dis
| covered. no doubt, by the indus
| trious crop killer, each one busily
ravaging the Kansas wheat fields.
| Meantime the wheat will continue
to grow.
/ And along about the middle of
July. Kansas will be harvesting one
| of the biggest and bulliest crops of
| dollar-a-bushel wheat the state ever
| saw, perhaps.
It isn't worth while to get excited
Ir1~ oh Mt
wheat conditions which are sent out
| from Chicago. Yesterday it was an
| nounced from Texas that the wheat
harvest had commenced. and that
| the fields were estimated to run
| about fourteen or fifteen bushels to
| the. acre. Immediately the Chicago
crop killer got out a special bulletin
| without waiting to leave his Office In
| Chicago. This crop killers name
was Rycraft, and he declared,
| through the dispatches, with great
emphasis, that this certainly was q
mistake, and that the yield couldn't
| be over half that much "as the pro-
tracted droughts' in that state pre-
| Guided such a yield"
The Rycrafts and the Inglises are
a great tribe. Watch their business
methods make the wheat market
boom.-Salina Journal.
A.GOOD BEAR STORY.
NaturaliSIS say LI1dL Wlen an oiu
| grizzly bear has established hunting
| range for himself, he writes his chal-
| lenge with his claws and tusks on the
| trunk of a pine tree. as far as he can
reach. If another bear, wandering in
| search of better hunting grounds. hap
pens along this path, he is certain to
see those warning claw marks. Rising
| on his feet, he strikes the bark in a
| similar manner. If he fails to scar
the bark as high as the other bear has
| done, he continues on his travels, 1eav-
ing the first in undisputed possession.
| But if the newcomer finds he can
reach as high or higher than the one
who first left his challenge there, he
| is more likely to remain in the imme-
date neighborhood, soaring the trees
here and there, and hunting where
| and when he pleases. Unless the first
bear has observed the challenge of the
I newcomer, and, losing courage, retires
from the neighborhood, the two are
bound to meet sooner or later, and a
| tremendous fight ensues. When the SUI
| premacy has finally been decided, the
| vanquished bear, If he has not been
killed outright, betakes himself to
tsome distant part of the forest to nurse
| his wounds in solitude. Wilmer Stone
says that this method of challenging
| all corners is common to a great many
wild beasts, large and small, including
| deer. He is inclined to think that when
the house cat stretches up to sharpen
it's claws on the trunk of tree, it is
i similar challenge for other cats to
read.-Atchison Globe.