Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-10
KANSAS FARMING.

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KANSAS FARMING.
A short apple crop is reported in
Brown county this year.
Peaches made q more excellent crop
in Harper county this year.
Millett made most excellent crop in
Anderson county this year.
A musk melon weighing twenty-one
pounds has been raised in Cowley coun.
ty, this year.
Timber claims are being taken at an
unprecedented rate in Seward and other
counties west.
An ear of corn was raised in Elk coun-
ty this year which held 1908 large, we'll
developed grains, by actual count.
Wichita Eagle: w. C. Woodman has
q pear tree which bore fruit this rear,
shed its leaves, renewed them, ano is
now in full blossom. This is certainly q
freak in nature seldom witnessed.
Emporia News: The largest pump
kin, perhaps, ever exhibited in the
county, was raised this year on the farm
of A. G. Edniston, and measures six
feet and five inches in circumference.
Leavenworth Standard: The farmers
of Leavenworth county are busy sowing
wheat, notwithstanding their i'll luck
with that cereal this year. One imple-
ment firm has sold three drills this
| week.
Westmoreland Recorder: If the farm
ers will burn over the stubble in the
wheat fields, after it is well dried, they
will destroy many of the insect pests
that remain in the stubble until the next
season.
Russell Journal: Carp culture would
prove decided success here, if properly
managed. DR.. Haise has we'll construct
ed carp ponds on his rancho, which are
we'll stocked with fish. He has carp less
than two years old which weigh fifteen
pounds.
| Hiawatha World: A great many
ments to feed bunch of cattle this win
l
their severe lose in hogs. They say it
does not pay to feed cattle unless you
have hogs to follow after them.
Wichita Eagle: The quantity of grain
coming into this market now is far be-
low that marketed here at this season
last year. During the past days of this
week there were few loads, but, on the
whole the market is poorly supplied and
our millers are forced to send buyers to
surrounding towns.
Solomon City Sentinel: Last week
William Ramsey, of Chester Park farm,
brought to this Office q dozen heads of
corn which he had grown from three
kernels. They weighed respectively as
follows: five ears, five and one hall
pounds three ears, four pounds four
ears, five pounds. Total, fourteen and
one halfpounds, or four pounds, thirteen
and one-third ounces, average from one
kernel of corn.
| The Russian mulberry tree is included
in the list of trees authorized by the
LAID Department in the cultivation Of
timber culture lands. The Russian null
berry is cultivated by the Mennonites ir
Kansas with astonishing results. The
tree stands the dry climate exceedingly
well, makes quick and, vigorous growth
and is, perhaps, one of the best trees in
the country. An effort is being made
to propagate the silk worm, and thus the
Russian mulberry becomes of double
value and interest.
Il Wichita Eagle: Never in any pre-
vious season in Kansas was there such
vast amounts of hay cut, cured ant
stacked as this year shows. The price
at which prairie hay has been ruling fol
some months may account for the extrs
exertions put forth in this direction. In
Sedgwick and all the neighboring coun-
ties thousands of acres have been cut
where hundreds were cut formerly. The
sixteen or eighteen newly settled c0un-
ties will undoubtedly demand much O.
the extra curing, but much of it will e
south and east.
i Wichita Eagle: The Eagle takes occa-
sion to say to the Chicago Tribune thai
our estimate of Sedgwick's corn crop wa
made up in July on basis of $4,000
acres, sixty bushels to the acre in one
case, and forty in the other, but that The
drouth Of twenty odd days which follow
, ed, cut the average seriously. Sedgwicl
|: has the largest acreage in the state, il
, round numbers 10000, but we are in
, Glued to believe that the average vii
hardly reach that Of last year, although
there are many fields that will come vi
to the highest estimate made in July
While the Tribune is giving us big boon
.. by reiterating over and again our frs
estimate, it is injuring the market, it ma.
be.
Halstead Independent: The Florence
Night Mission of New York City, q tenn
porary home for fallen women, repor
having received the box of clothing sen