The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-30
Kan.a. Farralng a.a Soc.

Kansas Farming and Sleek
HaemS.
Cattle on the Saline and solomon
have wintered we'll.
Garden seed and early potatoes are
being planted at Coffeyville.
A very large acreage of oats has
been sown in Montgomery county.
J.H. FauIk raised 1000 bushels of
corn last year in jefferson county.
T.G. Blue, of Leavsnworth, has
purchased q farm of 1000 acres in
Butler county.
Several car loads of pecaas have
been shipped from Coffeyville during
the winter.
Prof. Carruth, of Lawrence, says his
list of Kansas plants. will reach 1.os4
this year.
An egg shaped like a gourd, with
the handle an inch long, is noticed IN
the Woodson County Post.
Now is the time to clean your yard,
and throw the rubbish ON your neigh
boris side OF the fence.
A large flock of turkeys were driven
through Winfield the other day en-
route to a market at Wichita.
Geo. Grant lost q $500 heller last
week of Inflammation OF the lungs.
1t had been imported FROM England.
The farm department of the State
Agriculture College has sold to Chas.
Moxley, of Greenwood, county, =
Devon bull, cow and heller calf.
Mr.. Spanlding, at Wathena, had his
shirt sleeve caught in the machinery
of corn shelter, and that garment
was taken of him in short order.
The German colony Of Barton coun-
ty have over thirteen thousand acres
in fall wheat. 1t was all drilled in,
and is doing splendidly.
On the Doth, Mr.. 81. 3. Jones, who
lives about two niles east of Eureka
sold to q gentleman from Kansas City,
400 head of hogs and about the same
number OF fat cattle.-Eureka Herald.
One firm has shipped, from Larkis,
on the Kansas Central narrow gauge,
since Jan. LIST, 10,oOe dozen eggs and
5000 p ounds Of butter.
Wichita Beacon: Last week. J. C.
Hall, of Union township, brought into
the city lot of Gotten stockings which
he offered for sale. The cotton was
raised on his place and carded, spun
and knit by his wife, and are first
class in every respect. MIR. FL. pro-
poses to raise an acre Of cotton this
year, and from his last years expert
ence, has no doubt of being success
full in securing q good return for the
tine and labor devoted to its culture.
John Wells, OF Rocks county, has
600 head of cattle that have lived en-
tirely on the range during all this win
ter without hay. He lost only two
head this winter.
Wichita Beacon: Mr.. Jewett says
that the rootlets of the wheat that has
been put in over two and half inches
are dead or very s:ckly, while those of
fields of wheat put in at depth of one
and half inches are vigorous. Wheat
can be put in too deep to do well, with
drills, If care is not exercised.
The biggest apple at the Centennial
was furnished by Judge E. w. Robin
son, Miami county, Kansas.
Grow tomato plants beneath your
fruit trees and the curculio will net
bother your trees. -Exchange.
Here is an item we want to impress
upon the minds of our Kansas farmers,
who seem to buy and haYe q chance to
buy only narrow wheeled wagons. 1t
does seem as If wagon makers dislike
to build any but narrow wheeled We
hicles:
This is another point which we are
pretty apt to overlook, greatly to our
disadvantage. We suffer ourselves to
be guided by wagon makers; and the
wheel-wright knows very well that he
lives by his trade. He serves himself
when we are suited with narrow
wheels. A set of wheels with four
inch or Six-inch rims and heavy tires
cost to make considerably more than a
set of two and q half inches wide, but
an extra price is always put on them.
They are well worth It. A wagon or
cart with six inch tread will take
| heavy loads over soft meadows and
hardly leave track, while q narrow
wheeled wagon with q similar load
could not go at all. On country roads,
such broad tread vehicles destroy ruts
and act like rollers, making the reads
agreeable for light carriages and keep
ing them In much better order through
out the year. 1t would be a real
blessing to every State of the Union to
put so heavy tax on narrow wheels
upon heavy wagons and carts that they
would become quite obsolete. Millions
of dollars would be saved to the peo-
pie eff each State in repairs of wagons,
turisks