The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-03-15
bud" Reynolds Tells Of Weather
And Crops.

nicola. KANSAS Editor INTERIOR
JoURNAL / will again write a few
items for the readers Of the cheapest
and best " or the seven weekly and
semi weekly papers we get, none come
as regularly a. u, Tuesdays issue
reaching US on Friday and Fridays is
sue on Sundays. and each paper regard
ed by the whole family as a real 'let-
ter from home" Was sorry to learn
that f. c. had sold the paper. but If il
had to change hands. we are glad II
got into the possession Of MIR. Sapfey
Hope your Waynesburg correspond
ent will write oftener. We are having
as fine weather as one could wish, and
the wind that we had heard so much
about before coming 20 Kansas has be-
haved splendidly so far. but we are ex-
pee ting il to do some blowing just any
time during the month Of April.
The wheat fields are turning green
since this warm weather faster than |
have ever seen before. Two or three
weeks ago il looked so dead that | felt
like weeping over the death Of the 50.
acre crop which | had bought. Very
late sown wheat is no doubt damaged
in this locality. but the damage is not
nearly so great as was first supposed
So IL the ehinch bugs and grasshoppers
will let US alone, the weather man will
be good and that tail Of Halley's comet
don't brush us of the map IN May.
Kansas may yet beat her last years
immense wheat crop. which was more
than 50, 900, 600 bushels. The warm
weather is causing the farmers to be-
gin in real earnest to prepare for the
coming crops Some are taking advan-
tage Of warm weather by Smelling and
marketing their corn. which is selling
here at from IS to &c at elevators, or
in cars. Others are making a raid on
ehinch bugs by burning out fence rows.
grass by roadsides. etc. Still Others are
getting rid OF straw stacks, some by
scattering on wheat, Others by burning;
as for myself. this warm weather just
makes me feel like booking a team to
the 40-Oliver and going out and turn
ing over some of this prairie sod. (But
they tell me te just waltz The way 1t
is done here is to wait till about April
18TH. then take four or six horses and
do the whole business of preparing
ground and planting at one trip. About
eight or ten acres day for one man
and four horses; then AS soon as corn
comes up, go after it with corn sleds
and eultivators.
We were sorry to hear of so much
sickness and so many deaths IN old
Lincoln during the past winter, and to
hear of so much bad weather. Now.
il was real cold here part of the time
below was the coolest. People here
say il was the worst for 25 years, but
il was nothing to compare TO what
have seen in Kentucky. There was a
great deal of rain here in November,
then il rained on Dec. 2 and 3. but since
then it has not rained any, except just
a mist; on Dec. II showed some, then
on Dec. Z showed more; was about six
inches deep, which stayed on about five
or six weeks. with plenty Of ice. Since
then il has only showed twice and only
enough to cover the ground then. We
have no mud. for as soon as rain falls
or snow melts the water sinks. There
are no springs here and have only
seen one running stream in Stafford
county. The land is nearly level and
not stone. Have good water at from
80 to so feet The wells are driven and
most every one has windmill for
pumping.
Nicola is $50 miles from Kansas City
by rail, on a branch of the Missouri
Pacific; is just a small station, but the
land around it has recently been bought
by man who proposes to give 1t a
chance to grow. There is one grain
, elevator here and the farmers have or
ganized another elevator company that
! will build this spring. We are ten and
: a half miles southeast Of Stafford, q
4 prosperous, growing city OF about g.
= 900 population, and about the same dis
rance northwest of Turon. We are
: about 2. 600 feet above sea level. The
!, altitude is greater. at an average Of
|. about seven feet per mile. going west
a through the entire length OF the State
But as this letter is now long, II ma.
= 20 TO the waste basket. With hes
" wishes to the |. j. and all its readers
AZ n. g. REYNOLDS.