White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-07-06
C-o. .n,l Fruit Items.

The Neodesha Citises says:
"Wilson County may be prond OF her sianafie'
this year. They win be well hiiea.
The Louisville Reporter OF the Ssa & says: o,,u,
all cut This week. There VIII be n pis yield.
The New Chicago Transcript of the oath says:
4U.ryc.t Is about over. and the farmers IT,
putting their wheat in market.
The Irving Ecoordes of the cd says:
"Our farmers are bt,sily engaged IN the. work
of harvesting their winter wheai, Eheh Is III
splendid condition, au:i promises to yield abun
danily.
"Corn is growing at almost unexaIni,led
rate. In many places it is six feet high"
The Paola Spirit of the 18th says:
sThe wheat crop of Miami County will probably
average twenty bushels tn the acre. There are a
good mapy fields that We're very mneh injured by
The HeSsan tiy but there are good fields enough
to bring it rp to that average. The first load Of
new wheat came into market yesterday"
The Abilene Chronicle of the 2:Sd says:
"JuSre Niculay has oats which measure six
feet in height and are not yet done growing
Some fields Of fall wheat will Yield thirty-five
bushels To the acre. The fact is, when the papers
speak of big crops in Kansas this year, they can
safely refer To Dickinson County for the proof"
The Spring Hill Enterprise of the 2lst says:
..The wheat harvest is about over. Corn is
growing magniticenfly; the crop never looked
better. Thrcsling will commence the comm.
week. Oats are uoiil nEeiy we esec scNeiai heltts
| of Norway oats. y
The lola Register of the 2sd says:
"The harvest commenced early, and there are
hut few, if any, whose wheat is not in the shock
We notice, that before the wheat was more than
half cut the fhreshers took up their line of march
over the earler-cut section. and commenced
thrcshinr from the shock; so the probabilities are
that much of the wheat will be sold in the ear
licr market
The Lyndon Signal of the 22.fsays:
Harvesting which commenced in Usage Coun-
| ty rs early as the 2sth of May, is nearly over
The crops are generally good, and the yield aver
ages from twenty to forty bushels per acre. So
far as we have learned, there has been no damage
done to crops of small grain, either by the Hes
! sian fly or army worm, i'll Usage County.
"Mr. J. Huyctt, of Ridgeway township, send,
us word that from present appearance his orafart
| this season.
The Alma onion of the 23d says, oferops nea
| Wabaunsee:
"The chinch bugs have nearly ruined sprin:
wheat in this vicinity. Fall lwheat has not entire
| ly escaped. Some pieces are injured consider;a
bly, Oats promise well. Probably the largest crol
of fall wheat ever raised in this County is nov
being harvested. Help is scarce"
The Usage Chronicle of the 23d says:
"Tle wheat in Usage County has been harvcs
ted and is safe. All dread of chineh bug, rust
| blight, fly, drouth and wet, is past. The yield i
l 1lll, ricn even extraordinary. Iu;it the INeT'tS
| yield throughout the County will not fall shor
of thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, we fee
perfectly safe in saying"
The Emporia News of the 23l says:
"A very few days mere and all the fall whea
will be in stack in good condition. On nearly ev
cry field straw is clean and bright, and the herr.
| plump and well matured. Good flour will be tn
rule for another year."
| From the Manhattan Nationalist of the 2:d:
"The wheat harvesting in this vicinity is al
most through The grain is very fine and tn
yield unprceedentc'lly large. Fro,l some cause
we cannot learn what, the spring wheat crop il
this vicinity is not doing well. There was bu
little of it planted, however, and it is to be hope'
that there will be still less hereafter
| The Girarl Press of the 2aM says:
"This week will nearly quite close the whca
harvest, one of the heaviest with which Southern
Kansas was ever blessed.
| The Wichita Iidcite of the 18th says:
| We Were shown, yesterday, soine specimens q
sod wheat. grown on the farm of Mr.. J. y. Smith
which were the finest we ever sag in any country
] The wheat was of the White May, Smooth Metli
tcrranean varieties and averaged forty grain
! to the head