Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-30
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
Of the State.

Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
Of the State.
Kenneth Sentinel: NJ. H. Horton re-
ports that his barley turned out 40 bush
els to the acre, and his rye % bushels to
the acre.
Caldwell Journal; I. w. Hitchcock
brought to this office mammoth sweet
potato, or yam, weighing five pounds
and five ounces.
Cedarville ReUjea0: Mr.. II. R. Payne,
of Clifford brought US "A ears of corn
which weighed 48 u pounds. He has a
large field Of that corn.
Kirwin Iadependent: L. D. Scott of
Plum township, reports a single smooth
potato that weighed five pounds. There
was no double potato about it-a single
tuber.
Salem argus: We have fine sample
Of cotton at this Office. Horace Butter
field raised it, and although raised with
in the town limits, it is as fine a sample
as the cotton belt Of the South can pro
duce.
Simpson Sjftjngs, E. S. Foote left
fine red Bermuda sweet potato at this
office last Monday which weighed seven
pounds when dug. 1t was grown one
mile north of town on the farm owned
by j. M. Vernon. It's dumping.
Abilene Gazette: a sweet potato
weighing eight pounds and fourteen
ounces was lett at our Office Tuesday, by
Mr.. j. II. Swartz, and grown at his farm
one mile west of Abilene. Pretty fair
sample, this, for 'Drouthy Kansas" eli?
Eureka Herald: H. w. Fuller, living
on an upland farm seven miles west Of
town, left at the Office of Hafey & Kidd
land agents, one sweet potato weighing
u pounds and six Irish potatoes, the
total weight Of which was pounds and
Is ounces.
Wichita Beacon: Some of the finest
corn that we have ever seen is now on
exhibition in the Office of +. II. Friend
q Co., and was raised by a farmer living
just across the river. There are 20 ears
which measure over bushel and weigh
"a pounds.
Hartford Call: Samuel Madden had a
yield Of Oats on Kansas upland of 500
bushels of oats grown on only eight
acres of grOund-a marvellous yield of
over siXty-three bushels per acre. Is
there a county beyond the big Muddy"
that can rival it?
Cherryvale Meas: Some people in the
East may think we are not telling the
truth, when we say that our citizen, j.
B. Bailey, has a pear tree in full bloom
now, In October, but if they do not be-
lieve it, all they have to do is to walk up
to his residence and see for themselves.
Nescutunga Cbjetlaia: Mr.. E. H. Har-
dy, who lives two miles south Of town,
brought in pumpkin few days ago
which weighed 294 pounds. The seed
yv-nc v,1orAnI the 18th of % cleo
raised a heavy crop of sorghum that was
planted late This shows what the soil
of COmanche county will produce.
Arcadia Reporter: Mr. NJ. C. Kelly, one
of the su Ostantial farmers living at Null
berry Grove, brought to the land Office
of i. r. Jewell & Co. q bunch Of bearded
Red Sea wheat, measuring six feet and
six inches in length. The heads were
veil filed, and this is only a sample that
was gathered near the edge of the field
without Culling it all over to get them.
Junction City Republican: The seed
ing of tame grasses IN this county was
larger this year than ever before, and we
are informed that's such grasses do just as
well In Kansas as in any State. A. Z.
Pierce last Spring seeded i've acres Of
ground that had been IN rye, and I'VE
acres that had been sOWn IN oats. That
sown in the rye ground he finds has
done much better than the other.
Junction City Republican; A gentle
man who has been IN Kansas a number
of years, and who is welt versed 10 re-
gard TO farming matters, gives 1t as his
opinion that where wheat is extra rank
at this time Of the year it is best TO pas
tureit before cold weather sets IN be
says it does much better through the
Winter, is not SO apt to be Wlnter-klI-
ed and yields more at harvest.
Cheney Journal: Julius A. Schmidt
has at his office a sweet potato weighing
eight pounds. 1t was raised on Mr. Bar
ney OstendOrf's farm, about two miles
east Of Cheney. It's by lar the largest
ever raised in this vicinity and is larger
than any exhibited at the recent county
far. Seven potatoes TO the bushel Is not