Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-21
KANSAS FARMING.

Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State.
Wheat in Kingman county looks first
rate.
Fall wheat looks well in Marshall
county.
Rain or a heavy snow is needed by the
wheat in Saline county.
Peach buds have been killed in Jewell
county by the coating of sleet.
Fruit buds in Mcpherson county were
not injured by the cold weather.
Butler county is laying ground out for
ten thousand acres Of sorghum next
year.
CherryvilIe GIobe-Neaos: The wheat
crop throughout the country is looking
well, and will make good yield.
Severy Journal: Farmers are prepar-
ing for their Spring work, and blowing
will begin as soon as it is dry enough.
Florence Herald: The wheat crop in
our county continues TO look very prom
Using at this writing, if we have been cor
rectly informed.
Marion Record: The rains and sleet of
this week were good on the wheat. And,
by the way, the prospects for this crop
are still excellent.
Farmers are conceding that the recent
cold spell had compensation in the death
of cut worms and grubs that have been
destructive Of truck products.
Arkansas City Democrat: James Cren-
oh Of dol hi inf
that he has sold So, 1913 worth of hogs since
1880, and has raised all the corn that has
been fed to them.
Carbonate Independent: JOS Mont
gomery brought in an even dozen ears
of corn whose combined length aggre-
gated l3 ZIG feet long. The corn was
planted in May on upland, and was only
cultivated twice.
Lyons Republican: Ben. Ward has been
marketing during the past week some of
the best white corn that we have noted
this year. He has 100 acres which yield
ed over forty bushels to the acre, and it
was bringing him the highest price yet
paid in this market.
Oskaloosa Independent: Mr.. Oliver Shra-
der tells us he has examined a great many
peach buds and not found one alive. He
thinks some of the tender varieties of
cherries are killed also, though the COM
mon kinds, from which our principal
crop comes, are not hurt.
Carbonate Independent: ]. Hey, who
lives southeast of here about sfx miles,
informs us that a year ago he procured
twenty-five pounds of Red Rust-proof
oats from Texas, which he sowed, and as
a result, harvested thirty-four bushels of
fine oats. He has number of bushels
for sale, and says they are we'll worth
trying.
Salina Journal, G.. B. Donmyer, of
New Cambria has purchased of Gov.
Click two very fine pedigree short-horn
yearling heifers. By the way, Mr.. Don
myer is one of our most successful stock
and wheat raisers. In this matter of
wheat, he has raised thirteen crops, and
not one of them has averaged less than
twenty bushels to the acre.
Salina Journal: From all directions
(previous to the sleet, we had heardn
but good reports concerning the winter
wheat. 1t is believed that the sleet will
cause no injury, although generally it
does no good to growing wheat. The
wheat in this country was growing all the
fall, and attained such fine stools that
there is not a particle of danger of the
winter weather damaging it.
Fall River Echo: Flax is pro
fitable crop when properly handled.
There is no grain more easily raised, and
no crop puts ground in better condition
for other grain than does fax. Weeds do
not grow in fax like they do in wheat,
rye, oats or corn. After fax is removed,
if the preceding culture was good, the
ground is in good condition for wheat or
rye without any working, save little
surface stirring.