Dodge City times., 1884-09-18
KANSAS FARMING.

| KANSAS FARMING.
| Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
| Ofthe State.
Corn is sixteen feet high in Jefferson
county.
Sumner county peaches are being ex-
hibited in New Orleans.
Manhattan is shipping her grape pro-
duct to Denver and other Colorado points.
In less than one hour l $3.50 bushels of
wheat were threshed, in Harvey county
j A fifty-eight and half pound water
melon was shipped from Junction City
to Michigan, recently.
Jefferson county took the first premi-
um at the Bismarck fair for the best dis
play of agricultural products. Allen took
first premium on horticulture.
Howard Coura,a: Some of our citizens
who have travelled through the country
adjacent to town, say they never saw
larger or heavier corn than the Elk coun-
ty crop this year.
Burton Monitor: The grape crop in
this county, this year, is the largest ever
known. The price has dropped to four
cents per pound.
Ottawa Republican,: We noticed small
twig on one of J. A. Hammonds apple
trees that held sixteen large apples The
twig was about half the length of mans
arm.
Minneapolis Messenger; DR.. Hewitt
hoc ho,, IS u -
yelr, and has already sold two tons. Ot-
tawa county is getting to be great fruit
county.
Pratt Center Times: Pratt county fruit,
such as grapes and peaches, is becoming
quite common in our market, several of
our farmers having raised very fair
crop of one or the other.
Mcpherson Freeman: The present out
look is, that owing to the very low price
of wheat, the area to be sown in this
county this year will perhaps fall one
half below that of last year.
Prescott Eagle: The apple trees all
over the country are groaning under the
weight of the thousands of bushels of de-
licious fruit that make the limbs droop
Sterling Bulletin: The sugar mill is in
full operation. The new crusher is work
ing with satisfactory results in conse-
quence of Improvements. The per-
centage of sugar will be vastly greater
than last year.
Mcpherson Freeman: It is reported
by the farmers that wheat in the
stack is suffering from the continued wet
weather. The stacks are quite green
in some localities where poor stacking
was done.
Emporia Republican: We were shown
yesterday bunch of millet raised on
the farm of A. Coats, two and one half
miles west of town, which stands seven
feet and two inches in height, some of
the stalks having heads about ten inches
long.
Sterling Bulletin: Mr.. Oliver Staufer
brought load of melons to NJ. G. Roy,
a few days ago, that beats anything that
we have seen in the county. He has
planted two acres and has raised 1000
melons, some of them weighing seventy
eight pounds.
Seneca Tribune: They say this is not
boss year for the oat crop, but B. Mich
OILS mas oats so heavy that the threshing
machine turned them out at the rate OF
two hundred bushels an hour. The oats
are plump and bright. This is an item
to make horse laugh.
Eldorado Republican: MI. j. L. Thomas
an extensive sweet potato grower of Cliff
Drl oh
bushels grown on ten acres which he
wishes to sell at seventy.five cents per
bushel. Mr.. Thomas sold $500 worth
of sweet po. atoes last year and finds
this very profitable crop.
Wichita Eagle: As to how that big corn
was raised on the farm of L. B. Miller,
north of Cheney, of which we spoke the
other day, Mr.. Miller informs us since
that the plowing was done by his little
thirteen-year-old daughter with a sulky
plow, drawn by single pair of heavy
horses. The plow was set at the depth
of seven inches. The ears of corn pro-
duced were, many of them, q foot in
length.
The Industrialia, published by the
printing department of the State Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan, says that
the apple orchard this year in connec-
ton with that institution bids fair to
put thousand dollars in the College
treasury" Also, that sixty varieties of
grapes are fruiting in the College vine
yard this year, and the general prospect
for crop of grapes is the best seen in
the last five years. Moore's Early has
given the first ripe fruit.
Harlan Chief: The crops of Smith
county this year have been simply i'm
mense. The wheat crop was the largest
ever known in the county, the greater
part of it being harvested in good shape,
and now many steam threshers are rap.
idly placing it in markets and granaries.
The heavy rains, coming in the right
time, have made magnificent growth
of corn, which is now out of the way of
all harm. The potato crop is enormous,
while the cane Is the best that was ever
known.