Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-22
KANSAS FARMING.
Notes and Incidents Among the Farmers Of
The State.

Notes and Incidents Among the Farmers OF
The State.
LenOra Leader: W. A. johnson pre-
scented this Office with a beet raised by
Mr.. S. Mudgett, measuring full three
feet.
Girard Press: James Wilson recently
exhibited a squash from his farm which
weighed 1143 pounds. We think this
will prove the "bOss" squash Of the sea-
son.
Kansas Pioneer: AS an intimation of
the extent of Smith cOunty's grain crop
this season, it has taken not less than
$4,000 worth of cord to bind it; $4,000
worth Of cord was sold in this city alone
Council Grove Cosmos. The largest
ear of corn we have seen this season was
brought to our Office this week by Mr..
John Lewis. ItWeighs just three pounds
and is something in the nature Of a
'WhOpper."
Thayer Headlight: Several loads of new
corn was brought into market this week
The farmers complain of a great deal of
their corn not being as good as expected.
Corn is worth only D cents per busheI
at Thayer.
Cawker City Journal, 1t will cost to
pillow one acre of land, $l.0O; wheat for
seed, a cents; drilling in the seed, IS
cents; heading and stacking, 81 25; thresh-
ing. Sz.20; marketing, 81. so; Making a
total Of $7.62.
Clay Center Dispatch: John r. Scott,
of Blaine township, presented US on
Monday with two very large radishes,
one weighing two pounds and three
quarters, and the other two pounds and
half This is the kind of vegetables to
Iaise.
Louisville Republican: The corn crop
IN this county is an enormous One-aVer-
aging about 80 bushels per acre. A
gOOdly portion of it is already secured in
cribs, where it viii remain, awhile at
least, as farmers are reluctant in selling
at present prices.
Osborne County Farmer: The county
poor fund has a credit Of $265.l0, and yet
the poor farm has no bOarders. The
wheat raised on the farm this year has
not yet been disposed of on account of
the low price paid, and forms a reserve
fund of almost $1,000, with wheat at so
cents per bushel.
Lenora Leader: J. c. Parker tells US
that the prairie is q perfect mat with a
weed called "colt's tail" that comes up
in the Fail same as Winter wheat He
says it cannot be detected except upon
the closest examination. Just what eff
feet this weed is going to have on the
seasons in this country, if it does not get
Winter killed and makes a good growth,
is hard to tell, but it is pretty safe to
predict that it will be death to the buff
falo grass, as it cannot grow in shady or
moist soil.
ChetOpa AdUancg If the wheat raised
in Kansas this year was loaded on to one
railroad train, when the engine was at
Chicago the rear Of the train would be
IN the neighborhoOd Of Denver; and if
the corn which the State has produced
this year was put on a single train, when
the engine was at New York City the
rear car would be in the Rocky Noun
tains; and if all the agricultural products
Of Kansas this year were loaded on cars
and placed in one continuous train, when
the engine was at New York City the
rear cars would be dragging In the Pa
ciic ocean at San Francisco.
Girard Press: J. C. Mawhinney, living
north of Monmouth, is building a stone
cellar, 1916, for storing all kinds Of veg
etabies. and viii put a room over tie top
Tor tools. Br. NJ. says the corn crop is
not as large as estimated, and much Of
have heard the same statement in other
parts of the county, and think that the
farms are few In the county where fifty
bushels Of corn to the acre viii be gath
cred. Much of the corn on the high
lands viii not yield to exceed thirty
bushels per acre. The long dry spell so
injured the growth that the late rains
failed to make the corn fill
Topeka Lance: Il am thoroughly con- /
WINGED in my own mind that whenever
a Kansan dies and goes to heaven, the
first thing he does Is TO get st. Peter and /
all the angels together, and tell them
what immense corn crops We raise down
here. 1t was amusing last week At the
reception rendered the Rev. Bishop
Ninde, to hear each several orator IN
welcoming the divine to Kansas, tell him
how much corn was raised here, and how
big the ears grew. And the orators were
all preachers, at that. The Bishop at
first seemed interested, but as each sue
ceeding minister attempted to improve
upon the corn story told by his imme- /
diate predecessor on the rostrum, think ]