Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-04
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy incidents Among The Farmers
of The State.

Noteworthy incidents Among The Farmers
of The State.
A man down at Wichita sold $4,000
sweet potato plants in one day.
Considerable wheat is being marketed
at Mcpherson says the Freeman
A man near Columbus, Cherokee
county, has eleven acres in strawberries.
Junction City Union: Acres of straw
berries have been ruined ny the frost in
this neighborhood.
Enterprise anti onopolist: The farm
ers are beginning to look anxious over
their wheat, there being some kind of
venomous bug that is cutting the roots
of.
Westmoreland Recorder: The earliest
planted corn begins TO show its rows, yet
the weather has been too cool to put it
forward very fast. We yet have time to
secure a good corn crop.
Junction City Union: One of the
effects of the severe winter is the de-
struction OF grape vines. In some vine
yards near town almost one-half of the
vines are winter killed.
Ell Dorado Republican: The Bessian
fly is hate hing out numerously in the
winter wheat, promising to destroy what
is left from the winter. They are in all
stages, from the perfect fly, larva to the
chrysalis.
Alma Enterprise: Farmers tell us that
every day shows further effects of the
Hessian fly in the wheat. The wheat on
slope land is badly damaged, but that on
the bottom seems to escape their raw
ages. Will some one please explain
this.
Winfield Courier: A queer freak
have the peaches taken this year. Mrs.
A. A. Knox, of Vernon, has left us seven
twigs on which are numerous peaches
grown together in little knots of from
two to seven-something never before so
commonly known.
Strong City Democrat: Farmers, as
we'll as other people, feel little discour-
aged over the continued wet weather.
The weeds are growing rapidly, corn is
not sprouting as nicely as it ought to,
and altogether the situation just at pres
ent appears little aggravating.
Wichita Eagle: They feel all right
about the crops. One man says he has an
abiding faith in Kansas, and if we can't
have wheat we will have corn, fruit, hogs,
fine cattle and sheep till you can't rest.
Ross says he planted corn the oath OF
May, Queen Victoria's birthday, and
raised seventy bushe IS per acre.
Florence Herald: The wheat crop in
this county, is not at all promising at
this writing, and not near as large crop
will be harvested in this county this
year as last. The Hessian fly has
damaged the wheat, and some of our
farmers have already plowed up the
land they had sowed in wheat, and will
put it in corn.
Independence STAR We were shown
bunch of blue grass, which measures
4S inches in height. 1t don't seem as if
there could remain much room for
doubt as to the success with which tame
grasses can be cultivated here. The
present has been an unusually favorable
season for them; but blue grass four feet
high is novelty anywhere.
Ell Dorado Republican: While the rain
has probably damaged the corn which
was planted but had not come up yet it
has has been great thing for the wheat
ra;sers. Prospects for wheat are of the
best and if nothing interferes we will
have an immense yield of wheat this
year. 1t is not yet time to growl. Put
it off till later day.
Beloit Democrat: Wheat is looking
fair, but not near so well as last season !;
the area is much larger, which will give
us about the same amount of wheat.
More oats sown this season than ever
before-Corn all planted and now plow-
ing for sorghum and millet; more of both
will be sown this season than in any
preceding one.-Sorghum as feed crop
is growing in favor for all kinds of stock.
Wellington Welingtonian: Lately we
have heard some little talk in regard to
the ravages the Hessian flies are max
ing on the wheat crop. The greatest
loss has been sustained in the southern
portion of the county near Caldwell, but
the whole talk is more of scare than
anything else, and the wheat will not
suffer one-tenth the injury many sup
posed it would. Neither the millers nor
the implement dealers feel uneasy on
the subject, and our farmers are not al
lowing the Hessian fly to cause them
any great loss of sleep.
Wichita Beacon: B. F. Forrest is one
man out of a great many who can say
good word for the wheat. He has 200
acres that looks fine. He finished SOW
ing on the 18th of last September, hence
his wheat got vigorous start and stood
the cold weather. There is no sign of
nh hue haccinr Avy no n0l1
wet weather has prevented the Matching
of eggs, if any were deposited. MIR.
Forrest has $500 bushels of wheat from
last years crop. The corn has been re-
tarded by the lateness of the Spring, but
on the whole he finds little cause for
croaking.
Wichita Eagle: Senator John Kelley
says he has one hundred acres of corn to
plant and does not intend to plant for a
month unless he can plant without "hog-
ging" it in. He thinks it makes no diff
ference when he plants, that he will raise
more corn than the man who "hogs" his
corn in the mud, and further says the
farmers in Attica are now convinced that
the prospect for crop of wheat next
harvest is daily becoming more gloomy,
that fully half the wheat was plowed up
and every imaginable enemy of the
wheat-rust, fly, chints bug, weeds, etc.
are working or the young sickly plant.
Sedgwick City Paragraph: w. C.
Ragen brought in sample of his wheat
Tuesday to have it examined by some of
the prominent wheat rsisers, who after
a thorough examination declared there
was no Hessian fly about it. A good
many reports have been started that the
fly was in all, or nearly all the wheat in
this valley, but we have placed but little
faith in the reports so far, and are now
inclined to have less. 1t is true there
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