Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-28
FARM AND FARMING.

Various Items APpertaining to the Kansas
Farms and Farming.
Corn is in demand at Hiawatha.
Lawrence claims to be the fruit center
of the State.
Very little corn has as yet been planted
in Cherokee county.
They are shipping tomatoes out in
Jewell county for IS per bushel and Gu
cumbers for 81.
Olathe Republican: The wheat is do
ing very well-that in the bin better
than that in the field.
Burton Monitor: Some corn was
planted last week. This week probably
two-thirds of the crop will be in. Rye is
headed out and looks well.
Osborne Farmer: The frost last week
killed many fruit blossoms, and as q
consequence, cherries and plums will be
rather scarce this year.
Independence Tribune: G. w. Smelser
has left us specimens of clover Is inches,
blue grass q inches and orchard grass 33
inches high. And yet it has been said
that tame grasses are failure in Kansas
Speaking of Orchard Hill farm near
Lawrence the Herald Tribune says. Year
before last the profit on the apple pro-
duct, over all expenses of work and
shipment, was $500.
Larned Optic: sample was shown us
OF rye few days ago that was almost
completely headed out, Notwithstanding
we are having one of the most back ward
Springs ever known in this part of the
country.
Seneca Tribune: Peter Palmer, q
prominent farmer and fruit grower, has
fifty acres of orchard bearing and set
out thirty-tive acres more this Spring.
He does not think the late cold weather
injured any of the fruit.
Peabody Gazette: Owing to the prevail
ing idea that tame grass is difficult to
raise, the crop is not sufficient to supply
the hay CONSUMERS livestock in
terests of the State. They have wonder
fully developed in the last few years.
Nortonville Meas: There has been a
good prospect for cherry crop until the
present extremely cool weather, which
it is feared will greatly injure it. A cool,
northeast wind this season of the year is
said to be very damaging to stone fruit.
Osborne News: Martin Monler ex-
presses the opinion that his stand of
wheat this Spring is relatively about 80
per cent. as good as last year, and from
all inquiries we can make we believe
that this is fair average the county
over.
Peabody Gazette: This has been q
splendid season for transplanting trees,
and we are glad to note so many thrifty.
looking trees all over town that have
been put out this Spring, especially the
rows of beautiful maple, catalpas and
elms, that grace the borders of many of
our streets.
Newton Kansan: The fruit prospects
continue to improve hereabouts, and ev-
erything points to an immense crop this
year. The few slight frosts last week
seemed to do no damage, and the young
plums, peaches, apricots, apples and ber-
ries OF all kinds are coming on in good
shape.
Abilene Gazette: A. J. Sterling, of Ban
ner township, reports the wheat crop a
failure. He says that wheat that looked
all right and bid fair for a good crop
few weeks ago is now dead. This seems
to be the sentiment of quite a number
of our neighboring townships and We are
made to believe the crop will be very
light. Our advice to those farmers that
still have last years crop on hand, is to
hold it for one dollar.
Winfield Courier: The peaches this
year are numerously twins, triplets, ETC.
They have q queer way of growing to-
gether in knots of from two to five. Our
pomologist is stumped for an explana-
ton. A tree was examined the other
day on one little two foot branch of
which we're sixty-four nicely formed
peaches, forty-one of which were knot
ted together in numbers from twoto five.
This is unusually prolific prolifcness
even for Cowley county,