Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — Not Such Big Crops After Ail. [ARTICLE]

Not Such Big Crops After Ail.

President Framk McGrath, of the Kansas Farmers’ Ail ance. says the estimates of Secretary Mohler of the w heat crop of Kansas are altogether too high. From reports received by him from nearly every county in the State he estimates that the yield will not exceed 60,0C0,C00 bushols, and possihly not more than 55,000,000. Mr. McGraui’s reports indicate that the .corn crop will be unusually large. Thomas Marshall and Fred Grace, of Newcastle, Pa., were out hunting frogs the other day and captured a creature not described in the books. It is a frog with wings nnd a tail something like a fantail pigeon It weighs exactly nine ounces. The wings are corapo ed of elastic-like skin, and when stretched out measured nine inches from tip t( tip. When the frog bird is in tho watel the wings and tail fit closely to the body and are hardly noticeable. Mrs. Hodgins, of Milton County. Georgia!, killed a snake in her yard that bad just run Off a setting hen and appropriated fifteen eggs. The snake was so gorged that locomotion was difficult, so he was easily dispatched. The reptile measured 5 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. " 1 JT 1 1 A Western Kansas man says that section of the State has a great future before it. Tbe"e is nothing that grows in the tempe-rate rone that does not flourish there. Nothing is lacking but water, and that is being supplied by j irrigation.