Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-10-02
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents among the Farmers
of the State

Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
of the State
Ellsworth turns up a farmer whose
corn viii run IS bushels to the acre.
The largest yield of wheat known in
Sedgwick county is So bushels to the
acre.
A pumpkin weighing weighing IS
pounds was displayed at Fort Scott re-
Gently.
A Neodesha hen is reported as laying
an egg seven inches long. Either the
story or the egg is little stretched"
Peaches are so plentiful in Sumner
county that farmers are trying the ex
/ pertinent Of making cider out Of them.
Arcadia Crawford Coz reporter: The
army worm, that dread pestilenCe, has
made its appearance in several localities,
an is doing some damage to the rye and
wheat sOWn.
Out in Smith county they are COM
! PEELED to place boards under their cab
/ bages, in order to keep them from sink
| ing down into the ground from their own
weight and rOtting.
Kingman Courier: Kingman county
corn was displayed at the fair in Wabash
/ county, Indiana, last week, and although
excluded from competition with the
/ HOOsier product every one declared it
/ entitled to the ribbon.
/ Gaylord Herald: Ben Hope has left at
/ this Office a half bushel of Early Ohio
| potatoes that are ahead of anything in
/ the potato line we have ever seen raised
in Kansas. We doubt whether they can
! be equalled in the county. Mr.. Hope in
! forms T1C that he has Hg1Cy * huCha1s from
/ less than an eighth Of an acre of ground
planted with three half bushels Of seed.
! Halstead Independent. The largest
/ yield for the amount sOWn, we have yet
/ heard of, is that Of John HunsbeTger, of
/ Lakin township. Upon three AGREES of
measured ground he sOWed only one and
One-half bushels, or one half bushel to
the acre, and threshed from the three
acres 1876 bushels of wheat. This Is an
average Of 45 bushels per acre or a yield
of 80 bushels to one bushel sOWn.
lola Register: Mr. G. J. Carnahan
brought TO our Office the other day cur
iosity in the shape of corn. He calls il
! Mountain Shield" and the peculiarly
of it is that the grains are covered with
/ a shield or husk, which grows from the
cob and completely covers each individ-
ual kernel. Mr.. Carnahan says that
cattle will eat it in preference to com
mon corn.
Florence Herald: The sorghum cane
crop in this county is reported to be very
| good, and a good deal of mOlasses and
sugar will be manufactured from the
/ same. Some of both has already been
made. Probably, ere many years have
/ been numbered with the past, Florence
will be able to boast of having sugar
mills within its limits as well as
numerous other manufacturing inter
ests.
Osborne Turner: Sorghum factories
are becoming fewer in number each year
of the history Of Osborne county-prob-
! ably the most extensive and successful
owned within its boundaries is that Of
Mr.. w. 2. Young, living near Covert
creek about five miles southwest of town.
This factory turned out {, l85 gallons of
! high class syrup last season, but the cane
! being only medium in quality made it
necessary to work up a very large acre
age in order to work up this amount.
! Mr.. Young has been in the business for
/ twenty years, ard knows as nearly all
about 1t as one man well can. His ma
/ chinery, including an eight-hOrse power
/ crusher was brought from Wisconsin
! about q year since, and will be in opera
/ ton sometime this week. Mr.. Y. is now
/ corresponding with parties interested in
! sorghum sugar making, and hopes to IN
/ duce men of sufficient capital to locate
/ in this vicinity and put up q frst-ciass
j sugar-hOuse.
/ Clay Center Times: It is now nearly
/ ten years since the work of laying the
/ foundations for the Willow Grove and
/ Centerview herds of this county was
/ commenced. The object in selecting and
/ breeding these herds has been to secure
I excellence in useful and profitable quail
/ ties with unquestiOned purity of blood.
/ The LOuans, LenOs and POmOnas are de-
/ scended from the McMillen herd of Ohio,
/ of which II mead on sale averaged 1886,
/ some Louans bringing over 50 600. Such
i bulls have been used as Grand Duke
] 39S5, a Josephine sired by imported
/ Duke of AEdric (l2730), 6166 Bell Duke
/ of Woodland, a Bell Duchess, and Second
/ Duke of EdgeWoOd, a young Mary, sired
] by a straight Princess. The prOprietOrs
/ of these herd DIS are not jObbers In the fine
/ stock business nor spectators IN fancy
| pedigrees. Their purpose being to sell
/ at prices that farmers who purchase to
/ improve their cattle In profitable quail
/ ties can afford to pay. Their aim is to
/ keep their cattle IN fair breeding cOndi-
| ton, avoiding the extraVagant expendi-I
/ ture required in pampering and training
/ for fashionable eXhibi ions and sensa-
tiOnal sales: a practice which Judge
/ Jones, of Ohio, says always proved very
seriously detrimental to the health and
constitutional vigOr of all classes of stock.
The Boys Bad Luck.
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