Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-21
KANSAS FARMING.

KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among The Farmers
| of The State.
Tree planting is all the rage in Pratt
county.
Tree planting is being extensively en-
gagged in out in Thomas county.
The backward Spring will force many
farmers in Jackson county to list their
corn.
Growing wheat is reported to be in
splendid condition in the vicinity of
Cawker City.
Corn is reported to be scarce at Hart
ford and is bringing an excellent price
as consequence.
A large peach crop is reported by the
Traveller as possibility in the vicinity of
Arkansas City.
A Marion county apple tree is so full
of blossoms that the limbs have to be
propped from the ground.
The shipment of eggs from the city of
Beloit for two weeks by one man
amounted to 10000 dozen.
Parsons Sun: Fully 60 per cent of the
bees throughout this section were frozen
to death the past Winter!
Great Bend Register: Plenty of small
fruit in this county this year. Home
grown apples will be peddled on the
streets from wagons.
Walnut Valley Times: S. Fl. Dicker-
son says we shall have plenty of peaches
and apples, despite the severe Winter
and the wiseacres.
Winfield Daily Courier: A Barber
county man has planted this spring
2l5 900 forest and 1000 fruit trees. That
is observing Arbor Day to some purpose.
Louisville Republican: The cherry
trees are loaded down with blossoms,
and if not overtaken ere now and fruit
time by some disastrous calamity, there
will be an abund crop ofthis delicious
fruit.
Augusta Gazette: The fields of Winter
wheat present much more promising
aspect than at tie close of Winter. The
aggregate yield in the county can but be
small, as so much of the crop was plough
ed under.
Olathe Star: Notwithstanding the pro-
longed severe cold of last Winter which
prevailed here, we are likely to have an
abundant crop of apples, cherries, plums,
grapes, strawberries and such, but no
peaches, it is feared.
Marion Record: George Griffith, who
has been in this neck O. woods" for near
ly quarter of q century, thinks he has
little the best prospect for wheat, he
ever had, which is certainly cheering
when one hears of so many fields being
plowed up.
The Brookville Transcript says that two
large houses are being built on Eden
farm; also that the farm has upon it
$50 head of horses, l, 100 head of cattle,
and that 10000 bushels of corn was
raised last year, all to be found upon the
place.
Emporia Republican: R. w. Perrine
shows us couple of potatoes from which
the growth of a new crop had COM
menced direct, without sending up a
vine. They were called the Early Ohio,
but might more properly be called the
Vineless. This singular growth is the
first of the kind that has fallen under
our observation.
Thomas County Cat: Wheat and rye
are sure crops in Thomas county,
while corn at present is not so sure.
The county is too new for corn as yet,
but only requires age to be a magnificent
corn county. Old settlers on the Mis-
souri, border remember when corn could
not be successfully raised there, but now
it is the grandest corn country in the
world.
Phillippsburg Herald: All who have
fruit trees will do well to destroy the
web-worms which are liable to infest
them at this time of the year. A few
moments time, two or three times q
week, will free the orchard from these
pests and save the trees. A small swab
on q stick saturated with kerosene oil
and applied to their nests will kill the
worms. This should be done, if possible,
early in the morning when the worms
will all be found in the weeds.
Beloit Gazette: Careful observation
during trip of a few hundred miles
south and east, the past week, as well as
reports received from other reliable
sources, convinces Us that the prospect
for the wheat crop is better in northwest
Kansas than in any other portion Of the
state. The crop in eastern Kansas will
De an almost complete failure, while the
south and southwest is but little better.
The prospectr are now excellent for q
big crop in this entire region and that it
will bring good price.
Wichita Eagle: Every farmer has ex-
perienced and knows of the inconveni-
ence and trouble of opening up full bin |
of corn or wheat or other grain. The
roof must be taken of, side opened out,
or some expedient resorted to keep the |
grain from running out on to the ground. |
Mr.. N. Camp, of this county, has been
awarded patent on . crib door-shield, |
farmer can have door. big or