Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-21
KANSAS FARMING.

KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State.
1t is claimed that Butler county never
since its existence, has had crop fail
ure.
The Halstead Independent reports
blackberries q inches in circumfer-
ence.
Thayer Headlight: Flax is a poor crop
in this part of the State, the best not
yielding over eight bushels Of seed to the
acre. Castor beans are also slightly
under the weather and the crop very
slight.
Atchison Globe: Bony Wood, living
near Troy, has Is, 900 bearing apple trees,
and will have between thirty and forty
thousand bushels of apples this season.
He made $4,000 clear money out of his
crop in 1888.
Washington Registsr: The worms are
playing sad havoc with the cabbage crop
through this section of the State and
many gardeners have already lost their
crop after having vainly picked the
worms off daily for weeks.
St Marys Express: Mr.. Ross, who owns
large farm adjoining the Bartlett farm,
in the St. Clare neighborhood,s sold 81, 700
worth of hog-fesh this Spring and Sum-
mer. Stock farming pays above every
thing else.
Arkansas City Democrat: Mr.. James
Trout, of Beaver township, says he can
beat anyone in the county on oats. He
has just finished threshing the product
of a seven-acre field and has a yield of
1872 bushels. A yield of rs bushels to the
acre.
Minneapolis Messenger: The prospects
of heavy corn crop in this county are
extremely favorable this year. Fields
generally are reported to be cleaner of
weeds and better cultivated than one
year ago, and the stand is also much
better.
Manhattan Nationalist: Where is the
man who said bees would not thrive in
Kansas? Mr.. Brethour started last
Spring with three stands. Now he has
ten new swarms from the old ones-mak-
ing thirteen in all, and they are all doing
we'll.
Ellsworth Reporter: Jas. Dick, Of the
Eden farm, this county, is preparing the
ground, 1000 acres, for rye, and is plow-
ing IL acres per day with a six-horse
gang pillow. He has 700 acres in corn,
and informed us that it would make a
full crop.
Haddam Clipper: Washington county,
and especially this particular section,
has been blessed with copious
showers during the past month which
have given the corn and grass crop a
wonderful growth. There will be one OF
the grandest crops this Fall that has
been seen for many a day.
Atchison Globe: The Brenners, wine
growers at Doniphan, expect to produce
$4,000 gallons of wine, or 1000 barrels,
this reason, besides two or three car
loads of brandy. Altogether, this will
amount to forty-three car loads, or more
than three locomotives can pull over
Troy Hill.
The owners of the sugar refinery at
Hutchinson, Kan, have 1000 acres OF
their own cane growing, and will begin
cutting on the earliest of it August. 18th
1t is the intention this year to work
everything into a fine grade of sugar
From this crop they hope to make al
least 100000 pounds of sugar and $4,000
gallons of syrup.
Washington Register: The grape crop
| of this section of country is quite large
and has already commenced ripening
Soon the industrious housewife will be
engaged in making jells and marmalades
in large quantities for Winter use, and
we advise them to make the inevitable
bad bow understand that he must leave
them alone after they are made.
| Marion Record: Some extraordinary
crops have been raised in this county the
present season, having eclipsed all form
| er years. Our old friend, j. Fancher, has
| Isl acres of millet growing upon the
farm of DR.. Bickford, short distance
northwest of our city, which is certainly
| IN a splendid and promising condition
and a large yield will be harvested. II
stands thick upon the ground, and will
average over four feet in height, much Of
which will measure six feet in height.
| GarOon lily Cuuto0tW. WI. y. u. Cuosi'
has a ten acre field of alfalfa just east Of
town which is hard to beat. 1t was sown
May goth, and he began cutting it last
week. This is the first crop and will
yield eight tons, or nearly ton to the
acre, and ne expects to harvest . second
crop by the middle of September. This
second crop will yield twelve tons, max
| ing an aggregate of twenty tons, worth
$l4O. Next years crop will double this
| one.
Norton Champion: w. B. Rogers has
made calculation of the amount O
grain raised in Norton county this veal
which is as follows: There is 1900 acres
of small grain and $4,000 of corn. The
yield of small grain at 20 bushels pei
acre will amount to $4,000 bushels. The
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