Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-25

A very fair wheat yield is reported in
Lincoln county. I've u also going to
make good crop there.
A very destructive hail storm visited
Riley county, doing considerable damage
to corn in some sections.
A man in Lincoln county planted part
of his corn with planter and part with
lister, and he says he would not ex-
change the lister for all stubble plows fol
his own use.
Burlington Patriot: From all the re-
ports we can gather, although the wheat
crop of Coffey county will fall tar short
of a crop, there will be more than was
first anticipated by considerable.
The past week has been the most To-
vorable of the season here for the crops.
The rains were followed by several
cloudy, damp days, and even the with
cred and sunburned early millet has
picked up courage, and now promises to
make perhaps half crop.-Wa Keenty
World.
Ellsworth Ness We are in the midst
of our wheat harvest, which is later than
usual in this country, as the season has
been cool, which prevented small grains
from ripening. 1t is the opinion that
the wheat in the county will be more
profitable to the farmer than the large
crop produced last year.
Florence Tribune: We are pleased to
state that the fOrebodings Of the Marion
and Mcpherson county farmers about
the failure of their wheat crops this year
are not being fully realized. The yield,
though considerably less than last season,
is as rule of a superior quality.
Medicine Lodge Cresset A few years
ago it was thought no crops could be
raised in Barber county outside of the
valleys, yet as we look around us we can
see large fields of most beautiful corn, as
thrifty as ever grew in the alluvial bot.
toms Of Illinois. or the corn lands by the
Sciota or Mama rivers.
Kingman Leader: A prominent farmer
of this county sowed ten acres of timothy
and clover with oats this spring, and
now, in addition to a fair crop of the
latter, he has splendid stand of both
the tame grasses. The average condition
of wheat in the county lis from Is to 40
bushels to the acre and lots of it. Corn
extraordinary.
The value of poultry and eggs sold
during last year was $685. in Davis
county. The value of the wool marketed
the past year was $685.. In the same
county the dairy products for the year
ending March l, 1885, amounted to $164,
3O4. The value of corn on hand in the
county March l, 1885, was S156, 305; and
that of the wheat was 1914.
lola Co,.rant: Whatever the effect OF
the wet spring has been on corn plant
ing, it has not altogether been without
its benefits. 1t has made splendidcrops,
of hay and oats, and the pastures could
not have been better. Our farmers have
made lots of butter, and their cattle are
about fat enough for the butcher. 1t is
an i'll wind that blows nobody good.
Eureka Messenger: Crop reports are
considerably more encouraging this week
than last. The depredations of the
and great deal of the corn which has
been cut off is now growing again all
right. With favorable conditions for the
remainder of the season, the corn crop
of Greenwood county will be almost up
to the average.
Lincoln Banner: The harvest of Turkey
wheat is very good this year, much bet
ter than that of the May, and we predict
a larger acreage for it next year. At
present it looks as though the farmers
would make their gold on corn. This will
give them chance to sit by the fire and
read during the cold winter instead of
being on the road with wheat and the
thermometer below zero.
Garden City Sentinel; Corn crops, while
not large in Finney county, are looking
| fine, and give abundant promise of good
returns this fall. VIM. Martin, whose
ranch is twelve miles northeast of Gar
den City, tells US tina his corn is now
waist high, and that he never had bet
ter stand, and this is outside of irriga-
ton. We believe that the corn crop of
southwestern Kansas this fall will 90 far
toward settling the very question as to
whether corn can be grown in this eli
mate or not. And we feel sure that the
verdict will be in favor of good corn
crops.
Junction City Republicans: Sooner or
later our people must come to the raising
of tame grasses for pastures and mead
ows. The day is past for depending on
native grasses. The land cannot be mown
free, as it was ten years ago. It is fenced
into pastures or the sod has been turned
for cultivation. Experiments show that
clover, timothy, blue grass and the
English orchard grass grows rapidly and
produce abundantly. More attention
should be given them. If the present
rate for prairie hay, 800 to $500 per
ton continues, the hay crop will be found
more valuable than the now almost uni
versal "corn and hogs"
Council Grove Republican, Joseph M.
Rogers, of Ohio township, called on
Tuesday, bringing branch of a tree
loaded with rare fruit, namely twenty
seven cocoons of beautiful native silk.
Mrs. Rogers obtained one-half ounce of
eggs this spring, cared for them by the
aid Of her two little boys, fed the worms
when Matched upon the leaves of the
common Usage orange. The mice de-
stroyed q part of the brood, but she
reared sufficient number of worms to
produce bushel and three pecks of
handsome cocoons. She is much pleas
ed with the results of her first expert
ment and nrOnOses tn follow nm tho hua.