Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-31
KANSAS FARMING.

The sand hill plums are nearly ripe.
The harvest hands are in the oats
field.
Ripe peaches are plentiful in Sumner
county.
The wheat yield of Cowley county is
estimated at 81 bushels per acre.
Thirty-five bushels per acre is the es-
ftimated wheat yield of Wilson county.
Champion: Harvest has commenced in
earnest. Never since the white man
turned sod in Norton county, has there
been such a tremendous cropof small
grain to harvest.
Usage Mission Journal: John Welch
has harvested 100 acres of wheat of ex-
cellent quality, which will yield at least
1000 bushels of the golden grain. Does
that look like starving here in drouthy
Kansas?
Wichita Eagle: The prospect for a
heavy corn crop in this county is ex-
tremely favorable this year. Fields gen
orally are reported to be cleaner of weeds
anu better cultivated than one year ago,
and the stand is also much better.
The following is telegram which was
received from Davis county: "The first
report of the yield of wheat in this coun-
ty comes from a tract adjoining town,
the average ofWhich will be trifle more
than thirty bushels per acre. Splendid
rains all over the county are greatly
improving the corn crop"
Topeka Commonwealth: One of the sub
stantial farmers of Shawnee county left
in the Commonwealth Office recently a
stalk of corn which measured eleven feet
in height. The gentleman stated that
this was but fair representation of an
entire field Of twenty acres. Undoubt-
edly it is one Of the finest specimens OF
the prosperity of Kansas agriculture that
can be produced.
Oberlin Herald: Geo. Krump, four
miles northeast of Jackson, says he new
er saw such grain as he has this year. He
| lived twenty years in Minnesota, but ney-
er had such grain up there. He has q
fine crop of potatoes, barley, rye and
wheat that could not be better. Mr.
Krump is one of the wide awake farmers
of this county, and has splendid tract
of 480 acres of land.
Randolph Echo: The Wire worm has
been doing considerable injury to the
corn in this vicinity. We hear of one
| field of ten acres, on Walnut creek, that
is said to be entirely destroyed. Mr.
Morgan's field, near town, is said to have
been injured also. We cannot, however
hear of piece of listed corn that is af-
| fected-a strong argument in favor Of
that method of planting.
Emporia Democrat: Although the corn
crop is more backward than usual, yet
the farmers can congratulate themselves
that Kansas again leads the field. We
noticed on our recent trip to Chicago
that the corn through Missouri and Hi.
nois is much smaller than it is here
ranging from few inches up to a few
feet, while here the greater part of it is
too large to cultivate and much of it is
tasseled out.
Burr Oak Herald. Ben johnson is the
boss rye raiser. His rye this year would
average nearly seven feet, and was sc
tall that the binder, though it could binC
! it, could not throw it off the machine
Another one was called into use and sue
ceeded in doing the work, though had i
been trife taller even it would have
failed. Ben says it dosen't pay to ma
nure ground, because you have to order
a special machine to cut your grain.
Mcpherson Freeman: The farmers O
Mcpherson have reason to rejoice Ovel
the fact that there has been no depreda
tons made on their crops by insects
When person comtemplates the mag
nitude of the crops and the good. thing
in store for the people of this county
their enthusiasm becomes unbOunded
Everything is prospecting, and all ar
happy.
Burton Enterprise: The wheat crop il
this section is being threshed, and Whil
the average yield does not come up t.
the expectations of farmers, the crop i
quite large and the yield very fattering
We have talked with several thresher
men, who report the crop running from
fifteen to twenty-five bushels per acre
Mr.. Felix Bolack's crop was finished las
Saturday. Part of it yielded twenty
nine bushels per acre, and the who'll
crop averaged twenty-five bushels. A
threshing has only fairly begun, it is i'm
possible to give the general average
We can, however, count on more than al
average crop.
Mcpherson Freeman: Two thirds @
the great wheat crop Of this county
now securely in stack and the remainde
will soon be harvested. The yield prom
Uses as great per acre as it did last year
and this means four and one-half mil
lions of bushels in the county, or fou
millions for shipment. Such crop ha
never been produced in any other coun
ty in the United States. This is now tn
third great wheat crop in succession il
this county. It places almost ever
farmer in Independent circumstance
To thresh and market this immens
amount of grain, means work for tn
next six months. From August to Jan
uary seventy car loads of wheat per da
will be hauled out of the county, an,
half that number from this place. TIL
quality of the grain, too, was never BET
ter, and the yield will be immense. /
farm in this county is better than tw
per cent. month.