Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-09-04
KANSAS FARMING.
Notes and Incidents Among the Farmers of
the State.

the State.
Rye runs so bushels to the acre in
Norton county.
The run Cf barley in Rocks county is
about so bushels to to the acre.
Great Bend Tribune: ]. w. Brown has
an apple tree limb in his Office, which
has two large well developed apples with.
in space of 10 inches. It beats any
thing we have ever seen in the apple
line.
Norton Courier. One of the best yields
reported 20 us thus far is that of ten
acre barley field belonging to Johnny
Rosborough, out northeast of town. His
barley averaged sixty-fve bushels per
acre. We do not believe it can be sur
passed in the State.
Salina Journal: The recent rains have
m ade for this section of the country the
largest and best corn crop ever raised
here. No end to wheat, corn, oats and
other products this year. The rain has
also made splendid blowing, so that we
shall start off with another good wheat
crop for the coming season.
Clyde Herald: AS shown by the last
report of the State Board of Agriculture,
for the year of 1884 Cloud county has a
crop of 13l, $40 acres of corn; Sedgwick
county has l29,lO7 acres, thus giving
Cloud 2,469 acres more of corn than any
county in the State, and makes it the
banner county for corn.
Pittsburg Herald: The corn crop OF
Phillips county is simply immense.
Just think of it, ears of corn over IA
inches long and still growing. Come on
you poor hungry brethren Of the East,
come out to Kansas, and Phillips county
where wheat, oats and rye yield from 25
to so bushels per acre, and corn from 40
to 90. Come.
| Burlingame Chronicle: Mr.. Seymour
has shown us some potatoes of the Nam
moth Pearl variety, the finest potatoes
we have seen. Mr.. S. says they are the
most profitable potato he has ever grown.
They yield this year for him about three
hundred bushels to the acre, and they
are very large, smooth and in every way
perfect. Farmers should remember this
and try them next year.
Kirwin Independent: O. Sanford, of
Plumb township, has made a complete
success of raising an orchard.
He has over fifteen acres in
fruit trees Of various kinds, and they are
all doing well. The first apple trees he
set out, he brought from Northern Iowa,
seven wears ago, and set out los, and 157
of these are now living. Twenty out of
the l57 of his first setting are of the ben
Davis" variety, and are in full bearing.
A considerable proportion Of his later
settings are bearing, but not full. In an
other year or two Mr.. Sanford's fruit
crop will be an item of no small value.
Troy Chief: A matter worthy of note,
and which is likely to become one of the
leading business enterprises Of the coun-
ty, is the Farmers Elevator Company,
at Leona, the membership of which are
all farmers, and live in Doniphan and
Brown counties. It is an incorporated
institution under the authority of the
laws of Kansas. No person can become
a member unless he is farmer of good
repute, and the shares are placed at the
value of ten dollars each, and under the
laws of the incorporation, no member is
allowed to take to exceed five shares.
Newton Republican We can't always
present this portion of Kansas in gorge
Gus colors; there are times when the
dried, crisp grass and withered vegeta-
ton make the heart sick with drop
of water from the clouds is gilmore value
than gold or precious stones; but this is
not one of those times. This is year
Of peace and plenty; the farmers have
an abundance of wheat, rye, barley, corn
potatoes, hogs, cattle, poultry and every
thing that can be raised anywhere
And with all this prosperity, the health
of the people was never better. Hence
we blow.