The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-11-30
Kansas Jottings.
TOPEKA, Kas., Nov. 20. Il

Mr.. EDITOR A few items from Kan.
sas may interest some of your readers
1t is pleasant to be able to say that in
all parts of the state the crops have boen
Of unusual excellence The locust dc.
vastation Of last year was so complete on
the frontier that it was feared that in
their dcstitution the farmers would be
unable to save sufficient seed. But their
extremity was the occasion of generous
liberality and thus those who otherwise
would have sown little if any rye and
wheat were induced to sow large
breadth last fall The result is very
fine crop, SO that i: is estimated that
there will be in the whole state 9,000,.
600 bushels Of wheat for sale, after a
greatly increased area has been sown this
fall, which now looks we'll 1t brings at
the railroad stations from 20 cents to
Sl.2O per bushel T. G. Henry OF Abb
lene had 1900 acres which averaged
twenty-five and half bushels per acre.
His field was about four miles in length
and half a mile 10 width He sold at
Sl.O5i per bushel, and cleared $4,000
He has nearly twice ss much sown this
fall
George Grant, Esq, of Victoria, has
large part Of Ellis county for posses.
sion. He is, in the main, in the stock
business. He favors the growing of long
wooled sheep. He crosses Cotswolds,
Southdowns, Leicesters and other approx
ed kinds with selected Aocks of Ameri.
can sheed. He is we'll satisfied with his
results thus far. He had 1000 lambs
this season. He marches his 1900
through trough several feet deep and
fifteen long, holding solution Of tobacco
and sulphur at temperature of 1909.
AS they jump in they are Thoroughly
immersed, and as they come out on an
inclined plane to dry, the drippings run
back into the trough. 5000 can be soak.
ed in day. In Ellis county, which is
nearly 300 miles west of Missouri, Mr.,
Grant secured good wheat, rye. millet
and other crops. saw bis rye at har.
vest, and it stood five feet high some
higher. He fed his sheep but about two
weeks last winter, and his Aocks all did
well on the buffalo grass range. His ex.
periments with cattle are equally success.
ful. His Cherokee and Texas stock
crossed with Durhams and Black Argus
Polled stock, make very hardy, we'll.
built and highly improved variety, The
dry, mild winters are very favorable for
the health Of sheep and cattle.
In recent trip 10 south western Kan.
sas l met sevcra, farmers whose returns
in wheat were SO large that | think it
may be worth while to make report oil
the same. The general average in some
favored parts, particularly in the magne.
siaRy liSNehtAge Of Pel&lhSer rfr%hddMse. ntY do
season for harvest was good, and long
continued rains did not damage the wheat
before tbreshing, as in Illinois, Iowa,
Minnesota and most western states
Henry Stull in field Of twenty.si acres
had an average Of forty.6ve bushels. He
ploughed deep and worked his bottom
land well and drilled his wheat; the
grade number one Capt A. d. Lee Of
Cowley county had eleven hundred bush
el on twenty acres, or ffty.fve bushels
machine measure but as this weighed
sixty.three and one half pounds per bush
el, his yield was over fifty eight bushel
per acre, Geriel Wilday. Of Augusta
on the Walnut valley in Butler county
had 1856 bushels, machine measure, from
six and one.ffth acres This weighed
sixty-four and one fourth pounds, SO thai
he had the enormous yield Of sixty y.thre,
bushels and one or two pounds per acre
| was not ready to accept 20 large {
story until had measured his field
weighed some of the grain, and saw al
the measurers at the threshing, and
think there is no mistake
10 all these cases no manure or othe
fertilizer was used Good, thoroug
tllage. good season, aud Kansas vale
soil did it.
In the vegetable line, have seen
sweet potato that weighed five and hal
pounds after mole or gopher had mad
a large excavation in it. a crook.necke
squash OF forty-seven pounds, and anott
er variety Of one hundred and ninet
pounds
The disaster of last year has taugt
the people many useful lessons. Tt
country now laughs with abundance, an
next week the people can keep a trul
joyful Thanksgiving.
j. A. BENE.