The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-06-26

N1aln Also HAS GOo0 pIOspCCS lOA
heavy yield of potatoes. He has con-
siderable quantity of stock, among
which is % head of sheep, which have
just yielded a good clip of wool. On
the place are 70apple trees 40peach trees
and quite number of wild plum trees,
the latter of which are very full of fruit.
The wild plum seems to do better than /
any of the cultivated varieties. Mr.. /
Main has good fences and proposes to |
protect them from the ravages>of pralr-
lie fire this fall He has already piowed !
a two rod strip around his place. This |
example should be followed by Others, |
and then the damage usually done by
fire In the fall will be prevented.
ID. /. Ward settled OH Badger creek
in 1857. and commenced business in a
tent. He is one of our most intelligent
and thrifty farmers. He is single hand
ed. and yet has in cultivation TO acres of
ground. Wheat 10 acres corn % acres
oats 10 acres rye eight acres, and sever
al acres of Hungarian, all looking as
well as evef8aised in eleven years. The
oats especially are doing well. Mr..
Ward tells US that he has not raised
poor crop of oats in six successive years.
Rye does well, and he is surprised that
there is not more raised by our farmers.
His potatOe prospect is very f1atterln9-
In fact Mr.. w. never fails to raise po-
tatoes every year by mulching them
had a good crop in 1850. If the ground
is wet enough when they are planted
can raise them in this way even ifthere
is no more rain upon them. Mr.. Ward
sowed hedge seed this spring and has
plants enough up and looking very
thrifty to fence his entire farm next
spring. Part of his farm is upland, and
raises excellent crops. About as good a
piece of oats as we saw is on upland.
He is filling up his premises with fruit
and shade trees, and 1T no very distant
day will have one Of the most desirable
places in the county. He has some ma
pie and cottonwood trees 30 feet high
/ and over II loot through at the bottom
also some fine box elders. From the
! seed of his large naples he has several
| thousand thrifty sprouts. On this farm
| is 30 apple trees, many of which have
borne more or less for four years. They
are certainly as fine looking trees as we
ever saw i'll any country. Raised ap-
| pies enough last season to do till this
spring. Also, 80 bearing peach trees
literally loaded with fruit-have borne
for three years. Mr. Ward, like Mr..
Main, is cultivating the wild plum.
They do better than most any kind he
has tried, and the fruit is nearly as COCO
a. the cultivated varieties. He also hat
growing 800 young peach trees. Mr.
Ward has tried his hand on some of the
tame grasses. He believes timothy viii
do we'll i'll Kansas, and fine plot o
blue grass about his house speaks TO
itself. He has also been engaged t.
some extent in stock-raising, and nov
has 100 head of sheep which have yield
ed good clip this season. % head OF
) horses, and a lot of cows and young cat
!, tie. He has sold some years as high a
$1,000 worth of stock. BY the assistance
of his excellent wife, to whose energy
industry and intelligence he is great.
indebted for the degree of success h
| has met with, he has sold as high a
f $500 worth of butter some seasons
+ without attempting to make it special
ty, and. all who have used the butte
made by Mrs. Ward will bear us out il
the statement that she has few If an
equals in this respect.
From Mr.. Wards we took our cours
to Forest Hill and thence down tn
: north side of the river to NeoshO Rap
ids. Our intention is to make our note
e thorough and not to miss anythln
e or anybody, consequently we fin
n this article growing so long o
our hands and our notesso copious, tina
we are compelled TO leave the balanC
S for an article next week. We hope on
S readers will be patient as we intend.
o give them all call and a hearing i
The NEWS. The statements publishe
arc from the farmers themselves, and W
Y want the people e; st who have heard an
r. believe the stories of drouths, desol;
ton, and famine in Kanass to read tlfeI
;, carefully.