Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-06-17
KANSAS NEWS AND CROPS.


er than the people of Winfield. God
| bless YOU.
KANSAS NEWS AND CROPS.
The Atchison Champion makes the
statement that the board of directors
OF the State Fair association have de-
cided not To hold state fair this
year The fair was, while not a sue
cess last year, not exactly a failure;
| the margin was close. /; was thought
best not TO take the risk this year.
Now Bismarck ought 10 boom.
The Republican, of Miami county,
states that j. ). Bates shipped 4 fine
lot of ninety head of fat steers 10
market last week. The lot averaged
40 pounds and sold for $40 per
100 weight He yet has on grass and
corn about eleven car loads of steers,
| already in ma"nificen; condition.
besides about one hundred mead of
stocker..
Having given reports of the big
Yields of Strawberries, We now CON-
mencc pn the black berries. Here i,
one from the Observation-Disclosures
of Garnett, which says: +. II. Noor-
hccs has blackberry that takes the
whole bakery i'll point of prolific hear
Ing IL has one hundred and twenty
clusters, with from twelve 10 fifteen
berries each. Who i next?
The FL Dorado Times says: Nv. H..
Osborne. the wheat king of southern
Kansas, was in town Tuesday. lie
states that all his wheat, save 10
acres, is worthless-klllcd bv the wiz
ter and IIcs-ian ily. The 10 acre, j.
promising for moderate crop. The
remainder of his 800 acre wheat
field is unplowcd and unpla lted, the
Iand being To wet this spring for cul-
! tiyaiiou.
Marion Record: Mr.. W. G Maycs.
of Peabody. who has been holding a
nice lot of sheep Il little northeast of
town, since the grazing season set III,
| has finished shearin@ Ibis week, and
reports that while the rains have re
duccd the average weight of wool per
head. the quality has been improved.
and he i very well satisfied with the
turnout There are 925 head in The
flock, and six men shearrd them all in
two days and half-a feat unprc-
ccdentci la this county. al least.
Gazette of Dickinson county: There
is no use denying the fact that The
the wheat crop of Dickinson county
will be almost total failure this
wear. During ride of twenty-five
miles in the country Yesterday, our
informant saws he saw but one field of
wheat that will 20 fifteen bushels To
the acre. and from that down to five.
MANY farmers are blowing up entire
fields and putting in miilct. The Hes
sian fly has done the principal work.
" lille in many instances the wheat has
turned 10 cheat
FL Dorado Republicans: j. Il. VII
liams. who resides near Augusta,
brought us some well loaded twigs
from his orchard, last week. y peach
twig about seven inches in length con-
tanned eleven well developed peaches.
four of them being in a cluster. An
apple twig eight or min" inches III
length contained twcnty->eycn Young
apples. which presented a healthy APP
pcarancc. When peaches get to grow
inc in clusters like grapes il looks
marvellous. Mr. ". will have fine
fruit crop this season.
Burlingamc Chronicle: There is a
good deal of spurious butter being
sold NJ present Burlingamc consum-
ers are getting their share of il. That
spurious butter i not only filthy but
decidedly unwholcSome. the can be no
doubt and the Chronicle hopes the
.roccrvmcn here will stop dealing ia
this nasty stuff MANY of the states
have passed laws prohibiting lis man
ufacturc. There ought To be such
law in every state. DlcomargariuC.
particularly. i the dirtieSt kind of
truck IL is To filthy even for wagon
grease.
The Nationalist. OF Manhattan. states
that Mr.. Jos. kimblc has herd of
cattle afflicted in singular manner.
When taken wit \ the Illness they be-
come wild and will rush on man
afoot or horseback. The disease made !
lis appearance i'll the herd several |
weeks ago. before pasturing COM |
mcnced. and several died. Mr. Kim |
bic thought il probable that when put /
upon green feet the disease would /
disappear. but il does not. The cattle |
continue 10 die. and. n with biackleg. 1
the best in the herd are The victims /!
Ten have died and two are now sick
We take the following from the |
Register. of Allen county: Three or /
for weeks ago we reported the result /
of a seven DAYS test uI Jersey COW /
that the COW yielded i9 IS pounds /
daily. This was considered a very re-
yield. but Mr.. Travis will /
have TO come again a. NJ. J. Baker. /
living near LaHafpe. LAYS il all over
his Jersey with little two-ytar-old /
scrub Mr.. Bakers cow ! two wears |
old. had her first calf about rwo
months ago, j. smaller than the ordin-
airy Jersey cow. and has no pedigree.
vet in seven days. with no feed bat
prairie grass, she yielded l4S 81
pounds of milk, or daily average OF
p IA pounds Who Will be the next
20 bob up serenely?"
We CLEAN This item from the Usage
City Free Press: Las, Thur sday even
ing. j. W Jesse. j. Il. Grant and Geo.
Davis. all of the Marias de- CygueS.
went 10 Kansas City with stock.
Jesse had two cars of fulfilled Colo
radios that averaged 2.S1l pounds and
one ear of hogs. Grant had one car
IF hogs and Davis had two cars of
fulfilled natives that averaged I.4i0
pounds and two cars of hogs. They
got in on FRIDAYS market. which
broke badly. Jesse go; S4-so for his
cattle and 1915 for his hogs. Grant
got 1866 for his hogs: and Davis got
s5.o5 for his cattle snd IS % and $3.50
for his hogs. They are all sufferers. l