Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-04-25
KANSAS FARMING.


Noteworthy Incidents Among the Far ,aer.
Of the State.
Corn planting has been going on for
week in Southern Kansas.
Advices from Piqua say that winte
wheat is seriously injured.
A correspondent from Pomona write
that the winter wheat is badly frozel
out.
A. III. Smith, elected Mayor of Wei
ington, owns 1000 acres of land in Sum
ner county.
Capt. Pierce, of Junction City, set on
one thousand apple trees in his orchard
on Arbor Day.
Winter wheat in the vicinity of LogaI
is fair. There is about 10 per cent. more
sown than last year.
It takes 1880 bushels Of wheat per day
to keep the mills of Salina running te
their full capacity.
Prospects for wheat in the neigbbor
hood of Edgerton is poor; unfavorable
weather and fly are the causes.
Sumner county is still troubled with
rabid dogs. The Press says five farmers
living near Rome, were bitten the other
day.
Scandal Journal: We learn that the
winter wheat in Beaver and Norway
townships has been entirely killed by
the past severe winter.
A. w. Keeling, who for some years has
owned the old Insley farm near Oska-
loosa, committed suicide by hanging on
Friday last. He has been insane for
some months.
lola Register: Our seed men report the
sale of more clover seed this Spring than
they have ever before sold in any one
year. Our farmers are all beginning to
see the necessity of providing themselves
with tame grass pastures.
Ell Dorado Republican: Corn planting
is progressing. Probably one third OF
the acreage OF the county will be in the
ground by the last of the week. Some
corn was planted last week which has
begun to come up.
Augusta Gazette: We took ride to the
country, last Saturday, and during the
trip passed many wheat fields, but one
of which looked good. While the 9TH
ers were poor, very poor, and will doubt
less be ploughed up and seeded to corn.
Winfield Courier: The Independence
papers boast of corn selling there at thir-
ty cents 5ushel. If Montgomery coun-
ty would raise more stock her corn
would be worth something. Cowley's
home demand has kept corn at forty to
forty-fve cents for several months past.
WeNinqtonian: Advices from the coun-
try cay that the fruit crop is still unin-
jured except the most tender variety,
which, of course, is not taken into &C.
count in making up the crop estimates.
Peach trees are in bloom and the buds
on the apple trees are beginning to
swell.
George S. Eaton, farmer residing
near Valley Center, says the Wichata
Beacon, reports that he will have fully
two-thirds of crop of wheat, and some
of the neighbors, he says, will have a
full crop. All the promising wheat was
sown in corn stalks and was protected to
some extent from the frost. Wheat in
the same locality, sewn upon open land,
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plowed up and planted in corn.
Atchison Globe: We desire to warn
farmers against a new swindle. Two
strangers meet at q farmers house to
stay ali night, and during the evening
they get up trade between themselves,
which requires witness, and the farmer
is asked to sign the papers, simply
to witness the trade. If he does so he
soon finds that his name is signed to
note which he has to pay. The law does
not seem to touch these cases, and
farmers should hang the first man
caught at it.
Wichita Eagle: There is much COM
plant against the city and its authorities,
by farmers adjoining the city, for the
manner in which dead animals, especial
ly dead horses and dogs, are disposed of.
In many cases they are hauled beyond
the city limits and just dumped out; in
others not half covered, and so on. One
gentlemen told US yesterday that a
horse, dying of something like the CLAN
ders, was hauled out and dumped on his
farm. If there is an ordinance covering
this matterit ought to be enforced; if not,
then one should be passed.
Kansas farmers, says the Newton
Republican, are not to be caught mapping.
Last week just q day or two before
wheat took an upward leap, several east
ern buyers sent men out to Kansas to
buy all the wheat they could get. Har-
Wy county farmers who were visited by
these men had their suspitions aroused
by the offer of few cents above the
market value and in most instances
refused to sell. Upon inquiring they OF
course discovered that wheat had taken
Jump of 16 cents. The farmers are
now marketing the cereal as rapidly as
they can haul it to town.
Bolls ana Carbuncles.
These are the VOLCANOES Of the human