Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-31
KANSAS FARMING.

KANSAS FARMING.
Rats climb the corn stalks and eat the
corn In Labette county.
A pear was raised in Smith county .hil
year twelve inches in circumference.
The apple crop raised in Sumner coun
ty this year was simply immense,
A lodge of the A. o. q. w. has been
instituted at Glen Elder, Smith county.
II. A. Allen, who lives about two miles
north OF Lawrence, has nearly five
acres ofsweet potatoes, which will yield
about 250 bushels per acre.
Florence Herald. What do You think
of an Irish potato weighing one pound
and three ounces? such vegetables were
grown this season only q few miles from
this city.
Peabody Graphic: At this time of the
yea: every farmer should gather up all
his implements and place them under
cover. It will save time and money
next spring.
Thousands OF bushels of apples are rot
ting on the ground in Wilson county
this fall. A vinegar factory is badly
needed there and wonld prove a paying
investment.
Coldwater Star: M. C. Caste, living
one and a half miles north of Protection,
is said to have the finest 10 acres of corn
in the county. twill average about As
bushels to the acre.
Independence Tribune: 81. D. Stone
burner lett us three Northern Spy apples
which weighed three and one-fourth
pounds, and the largest measures four
teen inches in circumference.
Fredonia Citizen: Most of the wheat
is going into the ground later this fall
than last year. That which was sown
late last fall made better yield than the
early sowed. Good seed wheat is quite
scarce.
Medicine Lodge Indez: Reports from
the wheat fields sown indicate that the
Hessian fly is getting in its work. An
old Missouri farmer informs us that he
has tried the experiment of pasturing
the wheat close in the fall and found it q
success.
Peabody Graphic: Now is the proper
time for our farmers to prepare suitable
shelter, for their stock this winter. It
is poor economy to wait until we have
one or two cold snaps, for one nights ex:
posture to snow or sIeet may cause con-
loss.
Empire: Not 80 much broom corn
raised in Cloud county this year as usu-
al. The low prices which that crop sold
at last fall scared the farmers out. Good
b. DOM corn is now selling in this mar
ket for about $65 per ton.
Walnut City Herald: The recent heavy
rains in this vicinity have caused wheat
to come up in fine condition and will
give it such good start as to almost in
sure itagainst freezing out" this winter.
Our farmers are all happy and we'll con
fident that large crop is in store for
them next harvest.
Thayer Headlight: Samples of tame
grass ten feet high, potatoes weighing
five pounds, string beans over three feet
in length, water melons: weighing seven
ty-fve pounds and ears of corn over
sixteen inches in length, all raised in
this vicinity this year, and can be raised
here every season, are on exhibition in
this city.
Emporia News, The assessors and
report 1O,35O bushels
rye, forty bushels of barley, $4,000
bushels of oats. eighty-four bushels of
buckwheat, IS $50 bushels of Irish pota-
toes, 1900 bushels Of sweet potatoes. To-
$50 tons of millet and hungarian, 1000
pounds of broom corn, and $50 acres of
sorghum raised in Lyon county this
year.
Belleville Telescope: Those who think
bees can not be successfully cultivated in
Kansas had better read this: Last
spring w. A. Hollowell invested $40 in
two stands of bees. To-day he has:: five
stands, amply supplied with honey for
the winter, besides having taken 104
pounds of the finest quality honey
from them.
Emporia Republican: l. F. Snediker,
Of Lyon county, has just threshed his
oat crop of forty acres, which yields, by
actual measurement, fifty bushels to the
acre. He also had twenty bushels to
the acre of millet which was sown late
on sod ground. These very heavy
yields show the productive value of up
lands in addition to their desirability as
more eligible and slightly places of resi-
dence.
Arkansas City Democrat: A novel ex-
of corn has been held in several
counties in the state the past week or
two. A challenge has been issued to all
corn growers of the county to make an
exhibit of twelve ears of corn at some
appointed place in the county seat, on
some specified day. The person making
the best display to be awarded the en-
tire amount of corn on exhibit. A dis
interested awarding committee is ap-
pointed by the exhibitors.
A Barber county farmer related his
expe. fence with corn of the yellow Devil
variety and also that of the McGinnis.
The first named variety was planted on
June 10th, the other variety was planted
on June 18th. Both varities weregrown
on the sod. In both, the ears are plump
and very large, and very little worm.eat-
en-. In short, the corn is first class, and
shows what can be done on sod. The
secret of the little damage done this
corn by the Aorms, is this. These vari-
cites of corn mature very rapidly, and