Broom Corn Reporter from Fort Scott, Kansas • 7

BROOM CORN REPORTER. 7 THE cr.ops. ESTABLISHED, 1855. G. D.

COLTON, President. FRANCIS COLTON, Vice President anl Treasurer. O. J. COLTON, Secretary and General Manager.

It is with some trepidation that the Herald" approaches the subject of the crops. For one who is neither a farmer nor dealer in corn, broom corn, is very apt to see the matter in a dif cious pumpkin does not present its usual rounded out fulness There is we believe a decreased acreage of broom corn in this section. From the inquiries made we find that while in no part of the county is there any increased acreage reported, in one section Sockem" there is reported a large decrease. The following evidence of this is adduced; showing the acres planted by the different parties in 1886 and 1887: ferent light from either of these classes and in making a plain statement of facts, as seen by him, is apt to run counter co one or other of them and perhaps to both. In conversation with broom corn and grain buyers we have learned that there is an averaee croo of both Indian and broom corn in quantity and quality.

On the other hand from talks with over a hundred farmers we have ascer tained that both crops are utter failures; that the broom corn is short, of poor quality, and that it takes nine acres to 1887. 5 30 30 20 15 35 10 15 35 160 10 16 12 10 20 423 1886. F. A. McCarty 105 J.

llertington, 160 T. Jester 100 Padgett, 100 H.Miller 60 J. McDaniel 65 J. Templeman 40 J. 80 I.

Harris 260 T. G. Roberts 220 M. M. Brown 80 Tuck Cox 100 L.

Trice 20 Mrs. Mahoney 25 R. Bedwell 40 1,455 make a ton, and that there are many patches of forty acres in extent which New Deal Ctatmer asfl Torn Planter, Broom Cora Scraps an will not tte worth cutting. We learn also that just at the fructifying stage in the growth of the Indian corn there came three extremely hot days in which a hot wind prevailed, and that the pol This shows a decrease of over a thous and acres in Sockem, with returns not len was burned and dried till its vitality was destroyed, and that inconsequence the husks contain only bare cobs. We Improver Power Punch and Shears.

MACHINERY AND CASTINGS. G. D. COLTON (Incorporated by State Authority.) FOUNDERS MANUFACTURERS. 531 to 549 South Cherry street, GALESBURG.

ILLINOIS. all in. Mr. Heebe had 105 acres last year and learned from the same sources that the pastures were burned out, that the wells were dry, and humans suffering for only 55 this. J.

I. Hall had 65 acres last year and only 26 this. If anything like this decrease has taken place throughout the broom corn region, and the yield has been cut one-half, as farmers claim, then high prices must prevail. But if moisture. On the other hand a gentleman who is both farmer and buyer told us that from 55 acres of timothy meadow he took 300 bushels of seed worth $2.10 the acreage has not thus decreased generally, and the farmers are mistaken as to the yield, then no great advance need be looked for.

Areola Herald. WANTED. QQQ Broom Crn Growers and JiUuJ Manufacturers to take notice that I manufacture a What Marriage Does. Few men pass through the experience of marriage without some change, for better or worse, in their outward conditions at least. In many cases the full line of the best machinery for change is an improvement, a source of per bushel and 100 tons of hay worth $5.00 per ton, making the value of the crop $1,130,000, equal to $20.00 per acre.

Oppressed with the anticipations of starvation the coming winter, the Herald man took a drive of about 16 miles east, south and west of the city last Monday, with a view to ascertain the facts, and if found as dreadful as reported by the farmers, to make preparations for emigrating. He is happy to be able to report that all fears of starvation have vanished from his mind. He came to the conclusion that some robust, broad gauge lying had been done; and that if the reports of disaster the crops coming from other sections of the country are no better supported by facts than the yarns told of this sec enjoyment to the man himself and a subject of flattering commendation on the part of his friends. This especially planting the seed to manufacture the Broom ready for market. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.

JOHN H. DAKEN, 102 104 and 106 Liberty Schenectady, H. Y. so with regard toslovenly fellows, who often look, after they have come into the hands of a neat and energetic wife, as if they had just gone through a Turkish bath, had their cravats tied, and been fitted out newly by a compet ent tailor. It is with a shock of pleased surprise that one meets a man of this character soon after his marriage, finding hia not merely clothed, as of yore, M.

Samuel, Benjamin 56 and 58 Yonge Street Toronto, Importers and Dealers in but dressed, brushed, and trimmed as to his hair, and well shaved. In faet he seems to have acquired a new set of bones; his back is certainly straighter, the shape of his head is altered entirely, and a pair of well-defined shoulders 1, ui have emerged from the mass of cloth under which they were formerly concealed. -Nor is the change physical only; the married man's morale has improved. He looks out upon the world with a face cleaner and brighter than it was in his bachelor days, and the consciousness of presenting a good appearance has raised him 50 per cent, in his own estimation, and therefore 25 per cent, in the opinion of others. And this is all due to marriage an institution that sages and cynics inevery age have ridiculed.

tion, then we can rest perfectly easy that there will be no famine this year. The fact is that up to the middle of June the crop prospect here exceeded anything ever sean; and the expectation having been raised so high, any falling off from these anticipatians was a sore disappointment. Instead of the anticipated 75 bushels to the acre of Indian corn, we will have to be content with the old 35 to 40. Instead of a ton of broom corn to three acres we will have to put up with the old ton to four or five acres. The Herald man kept putting mile after mile behind him trying to catch up with those "blasted corn fields which wouldn't even make fodder," but they kept constantly receding.

Like the ague and milk sick, they were always just a little ways ahead. To be sure he found here and there small patches of corn of both kinds which were poor, but they were the exception. The pastures are burned out there is no doubt of that fact. And this being general has caused large shipments of cattle to market and consequent lowering of prices. It will prove a hardship to those raising cattle, as feeding must begin sooner than usual.

There is a great shortage in fruit; and potatoes are a failure, and even the lus- Sole Agents for Dominion of Canada, for Bradshaw's Patent Broom Locks. ESTABLISHED 1876. J. BORST Manufacturer of BROOMS AND BRUSHES, And Dealer in BROOM CORN HANDLES AND BROOM MATERIALS STRAW PAPER, PAPER BAGS, TWINE, Bridgeport, Conn. Frank H.

M. Gray, editor of a Washington Territory paper, is a Republican, but his wife, who helps him, is a Democrat. The good woman kept quiet until her husband went off to collect subscriptions, and then, being obliged to write the editorials, she let herself out in a way which nearly paralyzed her husband's Republican constituency..