The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-07-03
Agricultural News and Notes.

From the Humboldt Union we learn
that Messrs. Seward and IIapgood, OF
! Cottage Grove township. are making
/ preparations to engage i'll the manu-
/ facturc of cheese. They are now Ill
correspondence relative to the neccs-
sarv machinery. and hope ere long to
have everything in readiness Will
which to commence the work. The
company expect to use - milk of one
hundred and fifty cows this season.
and by next year they will increase
! the capacity Of The factory and use the
milk of three or four hundred cows.
The cheese factory at Washington.
Washington county, has been cstab-
! lished over a month. and several thou
! sand pounds of cheese have been man
uiactured, and some of il is ready for
market.
Stephen Hurd, esq, of Litchiield
county, Conn. will put up a cheese
factory at LaCyguc.
Louis Sarbach. Of liolton. recently
bought l,060 pounds of fleece wool of
Mr.. Gregg. living on Soldier creek
There were 207 iiceces. and the wool
was of excellent quality. and averaged
five pounds to the fleece.
Mr. Jacob StubblctielG. of Jackson
county. is building substantial barn.
30X50 feet, with sixteen feet posts.
The entire frame j. of seasoned black
walnut timber.
The Abilene CbrOnicie-J0Uyam saws
that Mr. I. {. Henry owns a fine body
of land of twelve 10 thirteen hundred
acres. commencing at point about
two miles east of Abilene and extend
ing some three or four miles along the
valley of the Somky Hill. He has had
broken this season four hundred acres.
and in fifteen days more he will lave
another hundred acres mastered by the
breaking plow. These five hundred
acres he designs sowin" to wheat this
fall. What a wheat field that will be,
Around the piece there will be no fence.
a $500 Aldcrney bull is en- route
from New York to Mr. Thomas II.
Mastin. of Kansas City. 1t is pres
ent from we'll known importer of
New \ DIRK
The farmers and horticulturalists of
Shawnee county proposed horticul-
tural picnic. to be held in Topeka the
fourth of July. The object of the
meeting will be to increase the interest
in fruit growing
The Parsons SIM saws the wheat
crop of Lahctte county this wear ought
to bring $4,000.
The La tygne Jo'uadl has the fol-
lowing: \ Linn county farmer sold
his corn for Is cents per bushel. II
was shipped east. ground. and a pro-
pricter of a cheese factory paid s. per
hundred for the meal to feed his cows.
The wintering of said cows cost him
$50 each In order to get his money
back. and make profit of IS per cent, /
in addition, he made the milk from his /
cows into cheese and shipped il to /.
Kansas.
Moral. Feed tho corn to YOUR own
COWS. and make the milk into cheese. /
thereby realizing at least 81 per hnshel 1
tor corn and yearly profit Of 100 per .
cent. on the cash value of your COWS.
\ very large average Of cotton has /
been planted in the southern tier of I
counties. The acreage of hemp. flax. /
castor beans and broom corn is report
,d to be fully one hundred per cent.
greater than any previous wear.
W. II. Bowen. of Henderson county.
Ills. has bought a large tract of land
II The head OF Turkey creek. Dickin-
SON county. and his father will buy
ract adjoining. They will go into
tock raising.
Capt. May reports to the Indepen-
lencc Tribune that in Fawn Creek
ownship. Montgomery county. the
lax crop is in splendid condition:
hat cotton is little backward. but
hat the condition i not diScouragin".
'orn was never better and wheat is
nut little injured by bugs or rust. and
hat there will be good yield Inc
eurc ReDubltc1D.