Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-09-11
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State.

| Oh the state.
Harper Graphic: There is more money
in this section III an acre of watermelOns
this year than in all acre of Wheat-al-
most two to one in favor of the former.
Blue Rapids Times: Flag Passage
brought a thoroughly matured car OF
corn to town, the other day. 1t was
hard and fit to harvest. The corn was
planted about the middle of May.
Solomon Sentinel. 1t is singular that
while wheat is so low in price, -four still
years prices for flour. There is a
screw loose somewhere that needs tight
ening.
Wyandotte Herald: VIM. Allsup, of
Shawnee Township, informs us that the
wheat crop in his vicinity did not turn
out as well as anticipated. Some fields
averaged thirty bushels to the acre, some
went to twenty-five, and from that down
as low as Yen bushels to the acre.
Valley Falls New Era: w. w. Hud-
kins takes the cake on millet. He
brought to this Office few days since
half a dozen stalks of millet which meas
ured five feet and half and had heads
on that were fully eight inches long, and
still it hadn't its growth.
Osborne Farmer: Andy Linn is erect
ing a chicken house 24x48 feet, in which
to keep poultry awaiting shipment. He
gave us some idea of the butter and egg
trade in Osborne, by showing his books
for the past five months, which record
ha hon of dc. Of ,,ffo
and "A 1876 dozen eggs. From this it
would appear that our farmers have a
large surplus of these products. Mr..
Linn ships principally to Chicago, Lead.
vile and Denver, and expects to expand
his business considerably during the
Fall and Winter.
Nickerson Argosy: Mr.. Greenleaf, liv-
ing south of Sterling, hauled a load of
wheat to that place and was offered but
40 cents for it. He had heard that they
often paid more for wheat in Nickerson
than elsewhere so he thought he would
come down and see for himself, and he
was we'll paid for his drive and thor
oughly convinced of the fact that Nick
erson grain dealers did pay more. They
paid him 4S cents bushel, an advance
VI.
the balance of his grain here.
Norton Courier: Ed. Railsback, of De-
vizes, informs us that from one stand of
bees, which he brought from Missouri
in March last, he took Aug I'd, % pounds
of honey and Aug. 23d 26 pounds more.
Aug. 30th he expects to get 25 pounds
more. For this honey he has refused 80
cts. per pound. He says bees do as well
here as in any country he ever saw, and
he wonders that more do not keep them.
His are the only ones we know of in the
county and his success with them should
encourage others to give them trial.
Winfield Courier: Mr.. provinces brought
us a twig of regular old Canada thistle
Monday. He had found it along the
road near MIR. Sumpter and Rays farms
in Walnut, and says there are several
lunches of 1t along the highways in
the vicinity. Every effort should be
made at once to stamp it out before it
seeds. This is the first we have heard
of in the county. Since the above was
written the Senior who was brought up
on Canada thistles has seen the speci-
mer and pronounces it nothing of the
kind.
Wichita Eagle: We noticed yesterday
number of samples ofnew corn brought
to this place by farmers. The stalks
were unusually large and the ears were
ofgood size, showing that the corn crop
this year will be good one. But there
is one thing about all the samples of this
years corn that has particularly attracted
our attention, and that is the extreme
lateness of the corn in ripening. The
corn that we have examined is all in the
milk, and will not be out of the way of
frost in twenty days. Many of the old
settlers in this county have seen corn
dry enough to shell on the 25th of Au-
gust. 1t seems to us that the corn in
this county is gradually suiting itself to
the long seasons, and in the near future
will be in as much danger of early frosts
as the corn in Northern Illinois or Iowa. |
To avoid this tendency to mature late in |
the season we believe our farmers would
profit by occasionally obtaining corn |
from more northern latitude.
Three new species of flora are report
ed to have been discovered by Rev. E. |
Green, botanist of Santa Barbara. In |
the middle of San Luis Obispo county he
discovered new species of gooseberry
wholly unknown to science. Near Sole
dad he came upon new species of olive
tree, peculiar in California.
During the month of July, 1888. the