Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-16
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farm srs
Of the State

. a hundred bushels of black oats in town
recently, that run about forty-One pounds
to the bushel.
Junction City Union: R. NJ Mayield
has brought to this Office two very fine
and large beets, weighing together p
pounds. Who can beat these beets?
lola Register: The Canning Factory
has finished putting up tomatoes, having
gathered 800 bushels from i've acres Of
ground. They viii nov turn their force
to working up apples.
Salina Herald: DR.. Patterson, OF Be
lott, has been arrested on the charge of
numbering Mrs. Sheik, Of Rockford,
Illinois, who died from the result Of
an operation performed by DR.. Patter-
son.
Garrett PlaindeaLer: J. n. SeIby, of
Sugar Valley, called Monday, bringing
with him a stalk Of sorghum that meas
ured fifteen feet, which was raised on
land which a few years ago sold for
seventy-fve cents per acre.
lola Register: Mr.. John NJ. Smith, liv-
ing two and one-half miles west Of town,
brought a beet into Cummings e. Jones'
Office this week that weighed fourteen
pounds. He raised it on white land,
where they said nothing would grow.
Arkansas City Democrat: In the sheep
industry of Kansas COWley county shows
the greatest increase for the past year,
our gain being 26,096 head. Sumner
county shows her hOggish prOpensities
by rolling up the largest increase in
swine-73,774 head.
Burr Oak Herald: Mrs. Jessie Elgin,
living two miles west Of town, has quite
an attraction in the way Of hen. The
biped in question is but little more than
five months old, having been Matched
early in April, yet she has laid, set and
Matched, and is now the mother OF sew
en- chickens two weeks old. Who can
beat that for a hen story?
Topeka Real Estate Journal: Singly
and collectively the farmers in Kansas
realize $50,000,000 annually from the
grass crop Of the State. Even this item
alone brings an average income Of nearly
fifty dollars per year to every man, WO-
man and child in Kansas. Several thou
sand steam hay presses are busy the
year round baling it and shipping it
abroad.
Usage Mission Journal: Some of our
citizens are cutting away the soft maple
trees around their dwellings. The worms
this year have made the soft maple
shade tree a regular nuisance, and while
it seems a pity to destroy trees after they
have become an ornament, but the soon
er they are replaced by something the
filthy worms are not fond of, the better
it will be.
Wellington Press: J. G. ThrailkiIl
called a few. days ago, and left with us a
large chunk of rock salt that was taken
from a wagon load which was picked up
In COmanche county. The specimen is
of fine quality. The salt is being exclu-
sively used by stOckmen IN that section,
and as it is found in endless quantity it
Is bound to be great blessing to South
ern Kansas.
Larned Optic: Mr.. Lew Salmans gave
us friendly call recently, when, in the
course Of conversation, we learned that
owing to the unusual rank growth of
grass on the prairies, the abundance of
stubble and weeds in the fields, and the
great number of grain stacks that abound
In every direction, our farmers are in
great danger from prairie fires; in greater
danger, in fact, than they have been for
several years.
Pawnee Cbron0scOpe: Mrs. CT. Payne
presented this Office with a bucket of
luscious peaches last week grown on her
own trees. To those of US who came
here when "blue-stem" covered the bot
tom and grew as high as these peach
trees do now, eating the peaches seems a
little out Of the common order of nature;
but it demonstrates fully what can be
done IN PaWnee county with a little la
Dor and staying power.
FL Dorado Times The crow was hard
ly out over our eight foot eight grass
from Cole creek, when Mr.. J. w. Jones.
of Whitewater, walks in with a bunch
even nine feet high. measured in this
Office. 1t is blue stem, and grew on its
native sod upon the farm of Mr.. J. N.
Jones. Mr.. Jones also presented US with
q head of mlllet thirteen inches long.
Long time before longer heads than this
will be found.
Wellington Press: The great need of
this town is trees-fruit and forest trees.
Fall Is good time to plant them. There
ought to be trees planted everywhere
IN the lots and along the streets, and out
on the farms. Think what they would
be IN half dozen years-What beauty
and usefulness they would bring. There
is not a handsOmer natural town site
anywhere than Wellington. Ornamen-
Lation is what is need now. Let not the
thhriity and enterprising citizens neglect
this most important dury another year.
Harlan Chief A report comes to US of
the horrible death Of a farmer not far
from Harlan. 1t seems he was on a lad
der attempting to get a large ear Of corn
that was near the middle of the stalk,
and about twelve feet from the ground.
He had succeeded in saving the ear of,
when it fell, striking him on the head,
knocking him off the ladder and bury
ing him completely out of sight in the
ground. Help was at once summoned
and his mangled body taken from the
ground. He leaves a wife and eleven
small children to mourn his sudden exit.
People this year cannot be too careful in
gathering their corn crop.
Chase County Leader: Residents on
Middle creek and adjacent territory are