Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-28
KANSAS FARMING.

"Born and raised on q farm. An,
boy should thank God for being so for
tunate az to be born and raised on 6
farm. There is no place on this greer
earth so we'll adapted to perfectly de.
velop mind, music and manhood, as 6
farm; there boy has the purest air, the
freshest and healthiest food, plenty Of
unrestricted exel else. the brightest sun
shine, and the soundest sleep; the very
conditions necessary for the highest de.
velopment. Nine-tenths of all the men
who have made their mark in any bust
ness, profession, or pursuit, have been
born and raised on farm; this is not so
much because there is better blood on
the farm as because the surroundings OF
farm life are better calculated to call out
what there is in boy, and develop a
full grown, healthy, perfect, self-reliant
man.
There is popular belief that potatoes
are more exhaustive of fertility than
other crops, especially corn, with which
they are most frequently compared. On
soils that are deficient in vegetable
matter, potatoes have the great disad,
vantage of not returning any straw and
other feed to keep up fertility. As they
exhaust the soil of potash they are in
furious to sandy soil, which is generally
deficient in that mineral. But on heavy
land potatoes are better crop to tit the
soil for subsequent sending than any
other. The greater amount of cultiva-
ton which this crop requires in growing
and harvesting breaks down the Jumps
and prepares it for anything that may
follow it.
There is much difference of opinion as
to whether or not manure should be
sheltered from the weather. An eastern
farming paper talking on this subject,
says: Sun, wind, and rain certainly dam.
age tie exposed manure hesps, and is
sure that unlimited exposure to the
weather will prove highly injurious to
the quality of the manure. A leading
farmer said some time ago, that he re-
garded the complete exposure of the
manure heap through the winter, and
until it can be used in the spring. to
damage it fifty per cent. In other words
one load of well-protected manure is
worth two of the exposed. This seems
almost incredible. but it may not be far
from the truth.
Beautiful form, superlatlve action end
q kind disposition are what constitutes
the value Of family horses. 1t costs no
more to raise high-priced horse than it
does low-priced mongrel. The differ
ence in their relative value is more than
the cost of production. The more good
qualities concentrated in one family the
higher will raise the market price of the
produce of that family. If we can sue
coed in breeding docility into our steeds,
q good, kind, fearless disposition, and the
absence of all vices that horse flesh is
heir to, the family could ride after euch
model disposition without risk of life or
limb.
The sale of the Union Pacific lands in
Kansas last month amounted to 104 1858
acres as compared with about 1900 for
September. Two large sales were made.
A sale of sc, 900 acres in Graham county
was made to q syndicate of men from
this state and Illinois, including promi-
nent banker of Randolph county, Mo.
Another sale of $4,000 acres in Trego
county was made to a number of men OF
Iowa.
Logan Freeman: Frank Wagner, OF
Mound township, will have z, 600 bushels
of potatoes from eight acres. This is one
of the surest crops in this part. He got
fifty-five bushels of potatoes from one
bushel and a peck of seed, after eating
from them all the summer.