Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-18

brought load of melons to NJ. C. Roy, |
a few days ago, that beats anything that /
we have seen in the county. He has
planted two acres and has raised 1000
melons, some of them weighing seventy
eight pounds.
Seneca Tribune: They say this is not
a boss year for the cat crOD. but B. Mich
OILS mas oats so heavy that the threshing
machine turned them out at the rate OF
two hundred bushels an hour. The oats
are plump and bright. This is an item
to make a horse laugh.
EIdorado Republican,: Mr.. J. L. Thomas
an extensive sweet potato grower of Cliff
ford township, has about a thousand
bushels grown on ten acres which he
wishes to sell at seventy-five cents per
bushel. Mr.. Thomas sold $500 worth
of sweet potatoes last year and finds
this a very profitable crop.
Wichita Eagle: As to how that big corn
was raised on the farm Of L. B. Miller,
north of Cheney, of which we spoke the
other day, Mr.. Miller informs us since
that the blowing was done by his little
thirteen-y ear-Old daughter with q EulkY
plOW, drawn by a single pair of heavy
horses. The plOW was set at the depth
of seven inches. The ears of corn pro
duced were, many Of them, a foot in
length.
The T9dustrialjSt, published by the
printing department Of the State Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan, saws that
the apple orchard this year in cOnnec-
ton with that institution bids fair to
put a thousand dollars in the College
treasury" Also, that sixty varieties of
grapes are fruihng IN the College vine
yard this year, and the general prospect
for a crop of grapes is the best seen in
the last five years. MOOre's Early has
given the first ripe fruit
Harlan Chief, The crops of Smith
county this year have been simply i'm
mense. The wheat crop was the largest
ever known IN the county, the greater
part of 1t being harvested in good shape,
and now many steam threshers are rap.
idly placing it in markets and granaries
The heavy rains, coming in the right
time, have made a magnificent growth
of corn, which is now out of the way Of
all harm. The potato crop is enormous,
while the cane Is the best that was ever
known.
Greenleaf Herald: A Kansas man
climbed to the top of a corn-stalk, be-
fore retiring, to inspect the state of the
weather. His foot slipped and he fell
--4oO q AAC4s541DO11A-S I1CEGOD5 WACL5 lie
stuck till morning, trying to die, and
couldn't breathe only about thirty cents
on the dollar. After his rescue he kicked
himself all the next day, and promised
his wife and seventeen children that
hencefOrth he would buy an almanac
and keep himself posted without resort
ing to such dangerous methods of ascer-
tanning the weather probabilities.
Fort Scott Monitor: We were pre-
sented yesterday with a half dozen large
and well ripened figs by Miss Helen
Mold, daughter Of Mr.. E. Mold.
In the Spring Of 1888, Miss
Helen received the tree from a
friend in Cincinnati, which she caused to
be planted, and has looked after it care
fully since. It is the Smyrna flo of the
Bible. Last year it bore no fruit, but
this year it contains fOrty-twO large and
well rlpened figs, and thus it has been
demonstrated by Miss Helen that figs
can be grown in this State and the trees
Will bear fruit here. Figs fresh from the
trees are rarity in this section.
Wichita Eagle: Among the most Won
derful and delightful thing of all the
rich fruit collection made by MOser.
Blood and Davis for the State Fair is the
section Of a grape vine five feet long, and
bearing ffty-twO clusters of grapes, and
by Mr.. MOser himself The branch from
which the section was cut was of last
years growth, and it attained in a single
season the Astonishing length of twenty
four and half feet. Californians and
others acquainted with the grape grow
ing interest of the Pacific slope, who
have seen the collection of grapes grown
in this county this season, say that no
section of California can surpass US in
the eight or ten varieties shown.
FL Dorado Times: Mr.. H. II. Kennedy
has an upland farm south of town, which
under his intelligent and careful man
agement has produced crops which make
the old crOakeTs, who aver such land to
be worthless, hunt their holes. He
brings US some MCGEE wheat, which
from three pounds Of sowing, three pecks
of fine wheat resulted; some welcome" |
oats which hug sixty bushels to the acre
so close there's no fun in it, and his IA |
yOrite Virginia wheat, which has yielded /
fifty and this year yields thirty bushels /
OF splendid grain per acre.
STOCK sOUIBs.
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