Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-11-15

/ potatoes. The varieties were Beauty Of
! Hebron, Canada Victor and Farmers
/ Glory, large, fine and mealy. They
/ weigh over two pounds apiece.
Greenwood County republican. Mr..
! d. j. Lee presented us with samples of
( English Russell and Straw berry potatoes.
/ Both varieties, he informs US, are very
| prolific. Eight Of the former weighed q
! pound. They are well shaped end eX-
/ cellent.
Louisville Republican: In this county
| the corn crop is rapidly accommodating In
the CRIBS, and ere q few more weeks have
passed the fields viii be ready for the
admittance of cattle. The crop is sim
/ ply enormous, and no mistake. The
cribs fairly grOan under their burden.
Farmers are busy gathering in the
/ golden corn. The finest weather i'm
aginable, the fields yielding In untold
abundance, q fair price for everything;
truly the Kansas farmer is to be enVied
! by the tOilers Of the East. This is the
/ poetry of farm life, and the farmers
! soul is filed with the song as he hears
the chink Of the falling corn.
A gentleman who has been in Kansas
| for number of years, and who is well
/ Versed In regard to farming matters,
! gives 1t as his opinion that where wheat
Is extra rank at this time of the year, it
/ is best to pasture it before cold weather
! sets in. He says it does much better
through the Winter, is not so apt to be
/ Winter-killed and yields more at harvest.
Wichita Beacon: One of the most pro
! life grades of apples that we have ever
seen was brought to this office a few days
/ ago by w. Z. Jewett, and was raised
is HgAr
and was from a tree only eleven years
old. The limb was only one foot long,
| yet it had upon it eighteen large apples,
| fully deVelOped-in fact there was no
waste room. They were of the Rails
/ Geniten variety, and are hardy fruit,
and viii keep until late in summer.
Ii1dustriaIist: Examination of a
handful Of young wheat plants,
brought from the field of Mr..
! Henry HOugham, near the College
Farm, disclosed numbers of the Flax
seed" pitpGTjG Of the Hessian fly, an in
sect which previously we have not known
in this vicinity. In remarking on the
discovery to Mr.. W. Marlatt, however, he
states that he lost a field of wheat by
| this insect last year, so that its appear
ance here will date 1888 if not earlier
still. Our people will know more of the
Hessian fly In the near future; and wheat
from this time will be a more costly crop
| than heretofore.
LldustriaIist: Our fields this year
abound in rats; we find them under corn
! shocks and corn piles, beneath stone
walls and any rubbish sufficient to hide
them; but there are no rats about the
! barn, piggeTies and corn cribs. The rea-
son for this somewhat singular state of
| things is easily given. We keep con-
stantly at the barn two to four stalwart
cats, and these are kept, not because they
! happen to be there, nor yet to furnish
| specimens for dissection by the class in
Anatomy, but for the strictly business
| purpose of killing rats and mice. These
! cats are fed new milk morning and even
/ ing all that they will eat, and they get it
! before the pigs and calves get theirs.
/ With this treatment the cats never get
/ fat, but are always sleek and in a strictly
! business mood. An old cat upon which
la half dozen lesser cats depend for their
daily supply of provisions is an uncOm-
promising foe Of all four-legged vermin