Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-10-09

trees and properly pruned, is attractive
as shade tree.
A farmer on the line of the Central
Branch tagged train the other day,
and calmly proceeded to have q $50
pound pumpkin placed in the baggage
car for the St. Louis Exposition.
Kansas Farmer: 1t is hardly safe
to ADVISE our farmers in regard to
the future price of corn, but if We had
any to spare we should dispose of it now.
There is big crop of corn, and times are
dull.
Manhattan Mercury: Hon. Welcome
Wells orchard of 40 acres will yield
5000 buehels of apples this year. Last
year bis apple crop was 10000 bushels
too large, Mr.. Wells says,-as he could
not take care of so many.
Farmers should increase their sources
of revenue. One farmer, eighteen miles
from Manhattan, three or four years ago
planted few grape vines for home use,
and after using all he wanted, sold
enough to amount to $27.
Ell Dorado Republican: Mr.. o. Mooney,
of Whitewater, brought in several ears
of strawberry corn, grown on his place
this year. The ears are large and we'll
filled. He ia we'll pleased with this va
riety Of corn, and counts it profitable
kind to raise
Garden City Cultipotor: A neighbor
sowed some oats among his currants, and
the currant worm, previously destruct-
i've did not appear. Where they are
troublesome give them powdered helle-
bore promptly, at first sight, sprinkled
on when the bushes are wet with dew.
Manhattan Mercury: One of our citi-
zens few years ago planted few grape
vines on a plat of ground that was but of
little account for anything else, and he
has just finished picking ten tons of
grapes! At the low price of two cents a
pound this crop brought $500. The grape
is sure.
Wellington Press: G. w. Bailey has on
exhibition a sample of grass seven feet
high called Johnson grass. 1t is similar
to common Sorghum grass. The seed
was sown April 18th, 1884, and cut July
25th, 1884. The grass is everlasting and
Mr.. Bailey says of very superior quality
for feed.
Osborne Farmer: Six miles west of
town, on the Kill Creek bottom, at the
junction of the creek and river is small
field of corn that is estimated by compe-
tent judges to average between 80 and
100 bushels per acre. Near by, on the
same farm, owned by C. G. Paris, ex-
al. ;oh
promises an average of at least Is BUSH
els. The wheat raised on the place this
season averaged from 315 to "a bushels
per acre.
Russell Record: Mr.. E. C. Church
gives us the following results of his har-
vesting: From IS acres of wheat he
threshed SOB bushels, or an average of
4S bushels to the acre. He threshed
l,0S5 bushels of rye, with 600 bushels yet
to thresh from 60 acres, and 1850 BUSH
els of oats from so acres, an average of
7Os bushels an acre. One field of acres
averaged Sc bushels per acre. While
this grain was being run through the
mill the threshers got in some pretty
lively work. 269 bushels were threshed
in 40 minutes, an average of 81 bushels
minute.
Osborne Farmer: Mr.. John Alexander,
Of the North Fork Valley. has had re-
markable success fruit this year, and as
cribes it to the careful cultivation the
trees and bushes received from the time
they were planted. Of apples, peaches
and plums he has all he wants, and the
pear trees are beginning to bear. All
through their seasons Mr.. Alexander en-.
joyed an abundance of raspberries, cur
rants and grapes, the latter being es-
pecially plenty, and of good quality.
Thirty bushels is low estimate on this
years crop of peaches, which fruit he
says can be raised as successfully here as
in certain portions Of Ohio.