The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-03-16
Kansas Farming and state
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Kansas Farming and state
The corn cribs in Manhattan hold
about 125,OO0 bushels.
Odessa wheat Is recommended by
some for spring sowing.
Thirty-eIght three-year-old steers
brought $1,000 at Independence.
A fine Berkshire hog fell into a well
at Howard City and broke both his
shoulders.
A flock of 200 head of sheep have
been wintered at Victoria with tota
loss of five.
A man named Wells, at Oswego,
claims to have discovered a specific
for hog cholera.
T. E. Scott of Ottawa county, has
lost but out of his flock of 1900
sheep this winter.
This is good time to destroy the
larvar of the ''leaf-rolIer," which seems
quite plentiful this season.
Burlington Patriot: Three head of
hogs handled by j. Stockwell aggregat-
ed 1900 pounds, and one 77s pounds.
Coffeyville Journal-Jesse Griffith
brought pig to town Tuesday that
measured six feet three inches around
the body.
Wagons loaded with dead hogs are
constant visitors at the soap factory
in Lawrence. Cholera seems to be
the cause.
G. w. Kent, of Neodesha, packed
and shi pped $50 barrels of eggs, each
ccntai ming eighty dozen, during the
last week.
Jewell County Diamond: Captain
Jennings says he has carefully examin-
ed the peach fruit buds and he pro-
nounces them uninjured.
Hays Sentinel: c. Dickerson, while
leading sick horse, at Ellis, was kick
ed over a five-board fence. The same
night the horse got into cellar and
died.
The scientists of Erie, Neosho county.
have discovered the cause of the fall
ing of stone wall to be the swelling
of the grasshopper eggs on its south
side.
One firm in Williamsburg shipped to
eastern markets $50 dozen eggs last
Saturday, and their average daily
shipment has been 100 dozen for some
time past.
Neosho County Journal: We learn
that G G. Copeland il feeding nearly
q thousand head of cattle, and half az
many hogs, on his place near Walnut
| Station.
One farmer in Greenwood county
harvested $4,000 bushels of corn las
season. He feeds it to stock, and
aveages so cents per busheI for 1t In
that way.
Martin McNamara, eff Wathena
has a cow five years old, that has givel
birth to five calves in her time, and II
now stepping proudly around over
fine pair of twins.
A fine blooded stallion, lately impet
ed from Canada by Frank Playter, o
Girard, got loose last week, went t,
the iced box. ate too much, took sicl
and died next day.
The hens are working full time, ant
millions of eggs are being shipped
eastward. The average price paid il
the State is = bout six ceats per dozen
Junction City Union.
Mrs. NJ. Bixier, of ArvonIa town
ship, Usage county, makes fine, ligh
colored sugar and as light cOloret
dip syruy, from the sap of the box ell
der tree, very common tree in Kan
sas.
| Mr.. F. Tibbers, of Howard City, has
a Poland-C China SOW, one year old tha
has had twenty seven pigs. c. I'm
ion.
The above lie is still In circula
tion we see.
Its handy to have two farms houses
February 22nd Mr.. Cleaveland farm
house near Wellington, Summer
county, burned down with its contents
and the family moved TO the othe
farm house on Slate creek.
A. S. Smiths IL months old bull, .
Emporia. weighs 80 pounds and /.
not fat. A bull or heifer that does no
weigh one 1000 pounds at two years o
age is considered runt in Lyon coun
~.
Mr.. A. Sweet, of Stockdaie, Rile,
county, says that in the spring o
1875 he dug ditch on his farm only
few feet long, two feet wide and o
less depth, and in five minutes caugh
a bushel of hoppers.
Manhattan Nationalist: Mr.. BetnarS
Dempsey lately sold sixty-eight beaG
OF fat steers. He commenced farm.
ing over the Blue about twenty year
ago on the bare prairie, and has nov
one OF the best farms In the county
two miles long, half mile wide, anC
all fenced.
Wichita Beacon: Mr.. Bruato, Twins
on section 81, township ., 2 east, Il
the fall made an axaminaeian of the
deposit of grasshopper eggs on hi
place. On one inch spare he founC
2SO eggs. Upon the Same gound al
examination made within the pas
week; OF space two feet square, Mr.
B. failed To find an egg.
An exchange truely says: 1Iillioni
Of dollars are lost annually In tn,
United States, by neglect TO pain
farm wagons, plows, harrows, etc
These things, IL well paiated and KEEP
under cover when not in use, viii las
three times as long as they will wher
not reprinted after two or three years
ase. Amy farmer can paint thea
things. Ali that Is needed Is Venetair
red and linseed oil, half raw and hal
boiled then wash the imp liment 10 b.
painted, thoroughly, and proceed Il