The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-09-09
EsNlAs FARMER ITEMS.

We find borers in our apple trees, and
there Is no patent nostrum that does any
good in lighting this pest. Take n strong
wire and 4 sharp knife and clean them out,
and put plenty of ashes around the tree, is
ihe plain, practical way to get 1T them.
You will find their saw dust thrown out
just at the surface of the ground. " Eternal
vigilance" is the price of fruit.
Potatoes intended Tor winter use should
not BE- dug until the weather is col. 4
n nth or six weeks alter is 5oon ,nouSh.
c asiderable experience with heavv crops
OF potatoes ia Kansas leads us to say that
even where they have begun to rot in the
ground there Is more hope Of saving them,
by allowing them to remain in the ground
than in storing them. Sometimes in very
wet seasons the early rotatoe crop viii be-
gin to rot in August and September, and
taking il UP will be OF no special advantage.
We DO not wish to he too persistent in
urging field of fall rye for winter and
spring pasture. 1t is however, OF so much
value in saving feed, giving a wholesome
change to all kinds OF domestic stock, that
its advantages cannot be too thoroughly
brought forward. The fresh COW in the
spring, when butter is always high, will
improve upon rye pasture with great rapid
ty, increasing the flow of milk and general
health OF the animal. Besides all this, the
crop OF rye pays all expenses.
The exhibition of tall corn, big melons,
mammoth flax, prodigious castor beans,
and produce Of all kinds having made
wonderful and astonishing growth, con-
tinues in every printing Office in the State.
The papers telling the first stories about
enormous yields and corn that has grown
six feet in six weeks, have been left far be-
hind in later reports eight and nine feet
in six weeks are mentioned, and several
editors vet TO hear from. Guessing the
yield from the size of the stack still con-
tinues with that delightful uncertainty that
lables US to figure up possible surplus
sufficient for hungry Europe. The reports
OF fields six and eleven feet high have be-
come monotonous, and the question most
anxiously asked is how is tina: corn to be
gathered ?
Throughout Kansas the acreage Of wheat
being put in would indicate that our people
had the wheat fever pretty badly. We in
dictated, some few weeks ago, that other
states as rich as Kansas have had 10 re-
trace their steps after exhausting their soils
with wheat and adopt more diversified
system of husbandry. The demand for the
present crop at s1.15 to Sl.20 cash, is
great incentive to grow larger crops, and
careful selections OF clean, pure seed. free
from rye, and other varieties Of wheat can
not he too strongly urged. 1t will as we'll
pay TO thoroughly screen and prepare the
seed Of large crop az of a small one. The
close grading in all the cash grain markets
demands care on the part of the grower to
secure the highest market rates, and this
care begins with the selection and thorough
cleaning of seed. 4 great English wheat
grower, 10 whom VIC are indebted for inn
proved varieties OF wheat, carefully selected
every grain of his seed wheat.
We know there seems to be little time be-
tween the work Of thrcshing, cutting the
mii.et, Hungarian and prairie grasses, to
give to putting up cattle sheds. We do,
however, wan; to speak word in good sea-
son in behalf Of shelter for stock. II there
is enc crime in the west Of which the Stat
utes take no cognizance, more prevalent
than another, i: is failing to protect dumb
animals from cold winter rains. We are
not talking TO attract attention to the tons
of hay and grain wasted by scattering it in
the lane or on the feeding lot, but of the
cruelty Of subjectine dumb brutes to cold
storms while the owner enjoys warm room
and good shelter. How easy cheap shelter
may be made where poles and prairie hay
grow, or rock can be had to build walls, is
not for us now to discuss. We are simply
making plea for the dumb animals, for
whom we ask not for the sake Of profit, but
as a humane consideration, shelter and pro-
lection from winter storms