Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-06
KANSAS FARMING.

KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
Of the State.
A French colony of eighty-seven per
sons recently settled in Allen county.
A. K. Thurston, of Marsau county, has
raised on his farm, on the Blue, 100 to
10 bushels Of corn to the acre.
A country sorghum mill in Butler
county manufactured this season 40 600
gallons Of sorghum.
Usage City Free Press: The following
shipments took place last month from
this station:-COal 896 cars; corn So cars;
hay, one car; hogs, three cars; and sheep,
one car, making a total of 964 cars.
Osborne Farmer: The yield of corn on
Q. M. Cunningham's place is reported at
90 bushels per acre on first planting and
go on that planted later in the season.
Mr. Cunningham says it is the finest
crop Of corn he ever raised.
Ellsworth Reporter: G. L. Meyers, our
home nurseryman, has sold about 225,-
600 trees to parties In this county this
Fall. This is right. As Meyers sells all
Kansas grown stock our people should
patrOnize him.
Enterprise Anti- MOnOpOlist: Mr.. W. L.
Phillips recently sold his place, known
as the Smith farm, west of town on the
Abilene road, containing 200 acres, to
Mr.. John 0. Lands, Of Ohio. We IN
derstatnd the price paid to have been
$62.50 per acre.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the
State Horticultural Society will be held
at Burligame, Kansas, December 1913.
Secretary Bracket sends out a very at
tract1Ve programme Of the exercises,
which shows that all of the great lights
IN horticulture will be there.
Osborne Farmer: Mr.. Young, who
operates the most complete sorghum
factory in the county, shut down his
mill last week, having manufactured but
$40 gallons Of syrup, which, however,
was of excellent quality. The reason
for shutting down so early was limited
demand. The cane yielded from forty
to sixty gallons Of syrup per acre,
Delphos Carrier: George W. Stricken
recently sold the Gable farm, six and
half miles northeast of DelphOs, to ThOs.
/ J . auckland for $4,000. Mr.. B. came to
! DelphOs in the Summer of 1869, when
! he could have hOmesteaded any farm in
| this section. Like a few others, he be-
came discouraged some eight or ten
years ago, and moved back to Illinois.
/ He now comes back to Kansas to live
and die.
Mrs. z. Tweed, a farmers wife, living
near DelphOs, complained that her hus-
/ band would not provide clothes for her
and the children. Tweed went to town
] with a load of wheat. and his wife Dor
rOWed a neighbours team and did like
wise. Tweed arrived home first, and on
| learning what his wife had done, was
crazy mad. When she got home he had
cut the cattle loose, turned the hogs from
| the pens, threw his Wifes goods out OF
! the house, and was shOVeling the dirt
| from the roof Of their dug-Out. He
! struck his wife over the head with a
pitchfOrk, inf1iCting three ugly gashes
/ She fell. as he supposed, dead. He then
! went and gave himself up. She viii re-
| cover.
HOlton Recorder: A couple of full.
! grown deer, somehow or other, lately
wandered into Jackson county. They
were first seen on the road east Of VIM
! TaylOr's, coming east. CLARK Nelson and
! the Mcdonald boys ran them into RObt
! Blacks cOrn6eld about eight o'clock
! They ran and got theirguns and followed
] the game, and found it reposing in q
! draw and got within twenty five yards OIL
] IL DCAOIo IL started 10 rum O45 OF Bl6
| bucks was shot dead and the Other
wounded at the first round. The wound.
ed one was soon caught by the dogs and
secured. One of the animals was 9
/ yearling past, the other tWo-year-olC
past. They dressed 100 pounds each.
Osborne Farmer: Some time since
Schumacher Bros, hardware dealers, Of
fered prizes for the largest forty ears o.
/ corn left at their store The contest WA
/ decided Saturday, there being 80 com
petitOrs. Wilson Swank, Of Winfield
carried of the first prize, a $40 cooking
range, James Morgan took second,
clothes WTinger, and Mr.. Hubert tool
third, a set Of Mrs. Potts sad irons. W.
append a list of 19 competitors who's,
samples weighed over 40 pounds: vii
son Swank, 464; James Morgan, AZ; Hui
! bert, Az; JEFF Durfey, A; Isaac Gray
434; S. Cole, 433; @. Lawson, 43: VIM
/ Spencer, 42k James Barrett, 424; G.
Stewart, ~; q. Hall, 42&; VaunIe Kel
ley, 42}; A J. White, Al; w. w. Moore
Al; Lot NJ Johnson. 4O4; D. p thinner
man, 4O4; Hills White, 40; Ed. Blake
40; f. NJ Buck, 40. The largest ca
weighed J LOunds, contained "A rows
one of which, selected at random, con
tanned 50 kernels. The mean average o
all the samples was 404 pounds.
Kansas CHURCHEs.