Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-07-24
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
Of the State.

Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
Of the State
Smith county will raise 100000 bush
els of corn this year.
Smith Center Pioneer: Let us see, A.
$40 bushels of wheat that viii average %
bushels to the acre gives us 464, 725
bushels which is the amount Smith
county will yield this year.
Oskaloosa Independent: At Mr.. John
Kerns, three miles from this place, may
be seen a wonderful egg, being no less
than a complete egg within another COM
plete egg, the inner one being surrounded
by the yolk and white of the outer COW
ering.
Florence Herald: F. o. Hogart, resid-
ing two miles southeast of Florence,
brought to our city load of new wheat
last Wednesday morning, and it was a
nice article. He informed us that his
entire crop this season would average
over thirty bushels per acre.
Sedgwick Paragraph: Lewis Preston
brought twig of one of his cherry trees
that measured thirteen inches in length,
into this office. The small limb had
something over eighty large fine cherries
on it. Mr.. Preston does not believe that
year. They were perfect beauties.
Chas. Montgomery brought piece of
blue grass sod about four inches square
from Salina county last Fall, and set it
on his place in Sand Creek. This Sum-
mer it grew to the height of two feet,
and is loaded with seed as heavy as it
trouble about raising it in his county.
Oskaloosa Independent: We hear that
some of the wheat in this vicinity proved
to be not worth the cutting-in fact some
of it was not cut at all. The heads were
chafy, containing no grain, or merely
the bulls of the grain. Most of the fields.
however, turn out very well, though the
crop will not be up to the most sanguine
expectations.
Wichita Eagle: w. II. Scott has cab
bage patch of two thousand heads which
are very promising we should judge from
a specimen left on our table of Hender-
sons Early Summer, which was pulled
July 9TH, and lacks but two inches Of the
necessary three feet in circumference.
Mr.. Scott says this has been his best
year for cabbage, and that the prospects
are for big yield.
Larned Optic: w. H. Camp, the wheat
king of PaWnee and Rush counties, is
now busily engaged in harvesting eight
hundred acres of wheat and rye, which
will probably average % bushels to the
acre. Twenty thousand bushels at rs
cents per bushel, is about $15,0 600 ain't il?
And it is not an extra good year for
wheat either. We are told that Mr.. E.
rye which will yield fifty bushels to the
acre.
Greeley NeU8; A farmer called our
attention to an evil existing at some of
our railroad crossings, in the shape of
OvergroWn hedges, SO obstructing the
view as to prevent parties from seeing
approaching trains, thus rendering the
crossing exceeding dangerous. We fully
sympathize with the above suggestions
from incidents coming under our person
al observations, when parties have been
nearly run into by unseen approaching
trains. We would call the attention of
farmers owning land through which rail-
roads run, whose hedges are in this con-
dition, and urge them to abate the dan
ger by taking little time to cut these
hedges, and not endanger the lives. of
their neighbors, or it may be your own
family.
Marion Record: Our farmers are in a
peck of trouble, just now. Mr.. Kellison
has been telling us about it. The first
appears to be to find ground
enough to stack the grain on. Then the
graneries are entirely too small to hold
it when threshed, and everybody is too
busy to build additional graneries. The
corn crop promises such a mammoth
yield that it probably be impossible to
gather it all in time for next Springs
blowing. The potato crop can't be SCOT
ten away with" in one year, and as they
won't keep very well for two years lots
of 'em are bound to be wasted. Same as
to most every other kind of vegetables.
The outlook is certainly discouraging.
But what bothers us most is the pump
kips and watermelons. Unfortunately,
derricks are scarce, and how are they to
be moved from the field? Pshaw it's
mighty perplexing to live in such State.
Guess we'd all better move out, with
Messrs. Bates and Jex. to California,
where such things never annoy the peo-
pie.