Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-17
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State.

OF the State.
Ottawa county's wheat crop this year
will reach 100000 bushels.
Ell Dorado Times: A hail storm nearly
ami hilated an extra fine wheat crop for
Hon. J. H. Fullinwider, on Whitewater
last week. The hail fell only in a mar
row space, so that surrounding crops
were uninjured.
Belle PLANE NeaOs: We noticed last
week field where the wheat had been
cut, and corn planted in the stubbIe by
merely blowing furrow for the row of
corn. This looks like crOwding the soil
little too hard.
Halstead Independent: A. S. PownelI, of
this township, handed US a few stalks of
timothy grown on his farm this year,
whose heads measured 10 inches in
length. Where is the man who says
timothy won't grow in Kansas?
La Cygne Journal J. J. Lepeman, OF
Lincoln township, harvested twenty-five
acres of wheat in twenty four hours this
week, with a Irvine binder machine. He
began one morning, and completed the
work without interruption, keeping the
harvester running day and night.
Hiawatha World: Mr.. SamI Meyer
has shown us the largest radish we ever
saw. The seed was planted two months
ago, in hisgaEden IN Schilling's Addition.
The radish is twenty inches long and
weighs four pounds. 1t is as pleasant
and good to eat as an ordinary small rad
ish.
Clay Center Times: The wheat crop all
over this portion of Kansas is simply i'm
menSe. 1t Is being cut now, and in quail
| ity and yield will be not inferior to the
| best ever produced in the State. There
are hundreds of pieces we know OF
which will make 80 bushels per acre in
this county.
Oberlin Herald: G. S. Brown informs
us that he has about 10000 one year old
cottonwood trees on his timber claim
that will average two inches in diameter
and seven feet in highth. He also has
| 1000 coffee bean trees and 1000 peach
trees three years old that are thrifty and
growing nicely.
Clay Center Times: Now is the time
to save samples of wheat, rye, grasses
etc. Pull up your best specimens and
| let them dry in the shade. Then tie
them in about four places and lay them
away until next Fall, them bring them
in to the County Fair, and show the
people what you can raise.
Lincoln Banner: We were shown sew.
eral nice specimens of crab apple that
grows i'll clusters like cherries, a few
days ago. His trees are young but he
says he will have several bushels of ap
| pies this year. 1t only requires care tC
raise good fruit here. Mr.. H. has his
trees protected by timber and they are
doing well.
Manhattan Mercury: Here is a bit o.
experience that is worthy of considera.
ton In hoeing weeds from about yOul
fruit trees, pile them around the tree
and cover with four or five inches of dirt
! These weeds will hold moisture much
| longer than the earth itself, and will in
sure constant and steady growth of the
trees. This was tried by one of OuI
tOwnsmen in the dry year of 1874.
Caldwell Journal; Farmer Gilmore
brought in a sample bunch of White
Russian oats, taken from a field of ten
acres he has grown on his farm adjoining
the town site. The bunch measured five
feet in height. Two heads measured sew.
enteen and a half inches each, and the
balance of the bunch fourteen inches Il
does not appear to have attained half It's
regular size, but then this statement will
hardly be believed as it is.
Garden City CultiUGtor: Alfalfa WON'T
ego slow" no how. We soWed a small
patch of it May 10th, and it came up as
promptly as turnip seed, in six days, and
on June goth, just forty days from the
sowing, we pulled up an average stalk o.
! it which Otis Potter measured with his
carpenters pocket rule, and pronounced
it precisely 2O3 inches nigh above
ground, while the root measured 81
inches below ground, and the ground
is shaded by two big walnut trees be
side.
i Pleasanton Observer: Mr.. Alfred Bla