Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-03-20
Extracts From correspondence.
Kansas Farmer.

Kansas Farmer.
HEDGE FENCES and obser-
walton with hedge plainly tells me to let
my plants remain untrimmed to grow at
will and we'll tended until diameter Of
at least one inch is obtained three to four
feet from ground before laying.
D. DoRAN.
ANDERsON-Au kinds of stock is doing
well. Winter grain looked well when
Winter set in; there is quite a breadth
sown; some corn to gather yet. [ am 60
ing to try and experiment some with
tame grasses by sowing on the prairie
this Spring. There will be quite breadth
of oats soWn here this Spring and a big
crop of corn put out. }. b.
JEWELL CoUNTY.-COrn- is moving out
freely at about 80 cents per bushel. Large
numbers ofsteers are fattening and do
ing well; the most of them have been
contracted at5 to 81 cents. The creamery
at Jewell City is gaining in its business
and proving a great benefit to the farm
ers. There are now two in the county
and a third one talked Of
D. R. S.
TAME GRAssEs.-While the subject is
up permit me to say word through your
columns in regard to a species of grass
very common in the east, but which 1
have never seen here; to wit Quack grass
| (IriticosRl Repe71s). This was regarded in
| Western New York as a great pest, in
cultivated fields, and l shall not soon for
get my experience in trying to extermi-
nate it from growing crops. Prof. Stewart
saws: It's nutritive ratio shows it to be
superior to timothy, and creeping roots
attach it so strongly to the soil as to rem
der it a success in all localities. We have
seen it so heavy in patches as to yield at
the rate of two tons per acre. In per-
manent pasture it is one of the most valu-
able grasses and not at all Objectionable
in meadow. It is impartial, spreading
its virtues and vices over all soils and
climates Now from the above I am in
clinedt to believe that this grass will prove
a decided acquisition on the light, porus
soil of northern Kansas, and will thank
any reader of this who will inform me
where small quantity of the seed can
be had.
Hamlin, Kan. A. P. BROWNING.
FROM LYON COUNTY-We are just emezg-
ing from VennOr's storm of one inch sleet
and two of snow which was a severe one
on young cattle With the exception of
this and the cold wave of January 5 we
have had very pleasant winter, Feed
ers say that their stock is doing we'll.
|
tina there will not be much ground pillow.
ed for corn in this month.
CANE ON soD.-Having received several
letters asking for the particulars in put
ting cane on sod will answer all through
your paper. tested it in 1882 and found
that both cane and corn would come
through the sod all right. In '83, having
about 25 acres sod to break, we sOWed
broadcast one bushel cane seed to acre,
sowing around on the sod and then turn.
ing it under making each days work
complete. Our crop is immense. Some
said it would be a good way to waste
seed. It made very cheap and Valu'
able crop for us; we consider it a good
feed for sheep. Will put in the ground
in millet this season and get what seed
may come up as fodder in the mil
let. Don't SOW less than a bushel pei
acre; more rather than less, as the finer
the better the feed and the easier hand
led. Stock will eat small canes, but moi
large ones. I. F. SNEDIKER.
Hartford, Kas.
CosT OF RAISING GRANT, read from
time to time in your paper a great many
articles on different subjects on farming
which interest me very much, but l have
never seen much on the one of the aCtu
al cost of raising grain per bushel, or cos
of general farm products. 1t would be {
! great benefit to agriculture if we farmer
would adopt the plan of keeping a mem
orandum of the different kinds of worl
done on farm during day. Five or ter
minutes every evening would note. dOwI
our daily transaction in small book anC
that could be drawn off on the genera
account book at leisure, with pages al
, classified, one for corn, oats, rye, wheat
7 IL Al
! and find that my corn cost a FRACTION
! over sixteen cents per bushel In crib
oats twenty cents in granary; rye twenty
? nine cents in granary; wheat thirty-eigh
: cents in granary. My corn went fifty
! bushels per acre, oats fifty, rye thirty
: three and one-third, wheat thirty.
t Muscotah, Atchison Co. G. w. WHITE