Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-06-06

ers are beginning to look anxious over
their wheat, there being some kind OF
venomous bug that is cutting the roots
off.
Junction City Union: One of the
effects of the severe winter is the De
structicn 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 fy 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.
Strong City Democrat: Farmers, as
well as other people, feel little d1scour-
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 24th OF
May, Queen Victoria's birthday, and
raised seventy bushels per acre.
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 a 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 a later day.
Florence Herald: The wheat crop in
tnis county, is not at all promising at
this writing, and not near as largea 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.
Wellington Wellingtonian: 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 Eagle: Senator John Kelley
says he has one hundred acres of corn to
plant and does not intend to plant for
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 on the young sickly plant
Wichita Beacon: B. F. Forrest is one
man out OF great many who can say a
good word for the wheat. He has 200
acres that looks fine. He finished SOW
ing on the 10Th Of last September, hence
his wheat got a vigorous start and stood
the cold weather. There is no sign of
chinch bug or hessian fly, as the cold
wet weather has prevented the Matching
OF eggs, If any were deposited. Mr..
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.
Sedgwick City Pantagraph: w. C.
Ragen brought in a sample of his wheat
Tuesday to have it examined by some of
he prominent wheat raisers, who after
thorough examination declared there
vas no Hessian fly about it. A good
many reports have been started that the
iy was in all, or nearly all the wheat in ,
his valley, but we have placed but little !
aith in the reports so far, and are now |
Inclined to have less. 1t is true there
re some fields that are afflicted thusly,
,ut not SO many as some would have US
believe. Mr.. Ragen's wheat measured
wenty-six inches, and has a good I
healthy color. He has about thirty-five 9
Icres, and says it is as good as he could !
six for.
The farmers of Chautauqua county :
ave undergone severe losses and a good
'ortion of their crops have been washed t
way, but this does not daunt them as t
viii be seen from the following taken q
rom the Sedan Graphic: We are glad
o see the best farmers of the county, t
aking hold again, with determination q
0 do something yet this season, in the /
ray of raising crops. We have inter-
iewed several of the most prominent
armers in this part of the county, and >
While they feel that they have sustained
evere losses, the are determined to q
make the best of it, and are going to L
FORK in earnest. If all our people will Q
ct in the same manner, we will not 2
now that We ever had any serious p