Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-11-20
KANSAS FARMING.
Item. of all Kinds CNncsrning Them.

Hem. ri al hjDds Concerning hhe"i.
Louisville Republican: Thomas Huey's
hogs are doing well on green feed yet.
Stafford Herai1: A dozen eggs, a pound
Of butter or a bu8hel of wheat bring
about the same price in the market.
Il will pay every farmer who is selling
corn to shell the same before bringing 1t
TO market, thereby saving the cobs for
fuel
Sonth Kansas Tribune: Noah Harris
has inc lot of fruit trees az was ever
delivered in our county. They are Kan
sas grown, and very thrifty.
The Washington Reqistr offers the
party who will bring them the best half
gallon of sorghum syrup. one years sub
scription to their weekly.
Oherlin Hera7d: Three hundred and
fifty dollars worth of trees, vines and
shrubbery was delivered Thursday, be-
tween the hours of u m. and 4 o'clock
p. N.
Louisville Republican: The potato crop
IN this county this year is not nearly so
large as was expected some time ago
Yet it is sufficient TO meet the demands
Of home consumption.
Osborne County Farmer: Harry
Humphreys wheat averaged over 80
bushels per acre on so acres. A. A.
Ford. who did the threshing, reports
this as the largest average on SO large an
area.
CLYDE Herald: Peter Brandigan, living
with Peter Pitsch, has been for the last
few DAYS husking and cribbing one hum
dred bushels of corn per day, perform
ing this task between sunrise and sunset,
Norton Champion Potatoes arepienty
and selling for twenty cents per bushel.
We can now come to the rescue of the
country around Kearney, Neb., that sent
good many potatoes to our market two
years ago.
Council Grove Republican,: R. L. Chit
ty, OF Neosho, brought us in some beets
that are beets. The largest weighs 1S4
pounds and was 81 feet long, and four Of
them weighed IS pounds. Hurrah for
Morris county uplands.
Winfield Courier: The latest curiosity
was brought into our office by Mr.. J. W.
Browning, Of Beaver. Ii was tWig in
excellent leaf, and bearing pretty half
grown apple. The tree fruited heavily
In the Fall, and was trying to beat all
previous records in another crop this
year.
Oberlin Herald: Luther Rice, Of Prai-
RE Dog. tells US that he sowed last
spring three bushels of White Oregon
spring wheat on three acres of land, and
a week ago Monday threshed one hun
dred and two bushels from that crop. He
also sywed three and one-half bushels OF
oats and tbreshed one hundred and
thirty-eight bushels.
Waterville Telegraph: Early corn is
now in condition for the crib and the
| husking season has commenced. Early
| in the season considerable quantity
was engaged at % cents per hushel, but
the market price ranges from Is to ~
cents. There is still surplus Of last
YEARS. crop on hand, but very little finds
/ lis way to The market.
Wichita E1g'e: The boss apples of this
wear reached this office few days ago
from the farm OF w. f, Stevens, OF Union
township, whose farm lies on the banks
of the great Arkansas. Mr.. Stevens or.
cbard is probably the Oldest in the
county. He placed in our hands two
apples of the Northern Spy variety which
he had pulled in the morning which
weighed thirty.six ounces, down weight
or eighteen ounces each. These apple;
measured thirteen and oDe-half inches
in circumference.
The enterprising flock masters. Neis
vanger Bros. Osborne, Kan, are report
ed by their local paper having raised on
their ranch on Indian creek a tifty-acre
patch of Early Amber sugar cane thai
goes over twenty tons to the acre. Il
was planted between the LIST and 9Th o
June, with Union drill, using from one
quarter to three quarter bushels Of seeo
per acre. They are growing this plant
exclusively for sheep feed, and viii
Craze the most of it, although about BOZ
tons have been cut and shocked, to hs
used in foul weather.
The increasing sales Of Pso. Cure sttssts IL claim
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