Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-11
KANSAS FARMING.
Noteworthy Incidents Among tn Farmers
| Of the State.

Oats promise heavy crop in Mont
gomery county.
The corn crop is reported to be in fine
condition in Saline county.
The wheat in some portions of Sumner
county promises half crop.
The wheat crop of Saline county bids
fair to surpass former estimates.
About one third crop is said to be the
wheat yield of Douglas county this year.
Considerable wheat has been marketed
at Mcpherson within the past few days.
Last years estimate of the wheat crop
will apply in Pawnee county this year.
Twenty bushels per acre is said to be
about the average yield of wheat in Clay
county.
As late crops a Montgomery county
farmer advises the planting of sorghum
and buckwheat.
Moot of the peaches in Saline have
been winter killed, but there promises
to be a fair crop of apples.
The acreage to be seeded to timothy
in Montgomery county this fall will ex-
coed that of any previous year.
Dodge City Times: Barley is a boss
crop for the southwest. as is rye, both
showingup magnifcently this season.
Oats were considerably damaged in
Harper county by recent storm and
this will considerably reduce the field.
A Winfield man reports the possession
of hens egg st inches in circumference,
which was the product of one of his
fouls.
Mcpherson Freeman: The outlook for
corn in this locality has greatly improved
within the past two weeks. Many fields
are looking first rate.
A number of creamery owners and
superintendent, of Kansas and Missouri,
went to Parsons last week and organized
Dodge City Times: The corn crcp of
western Kansas is in luxuriant condi-
ton, and if we can't raise corn this year
the question will then be definitly
settled.
A man in Harvey county says that his
oats this year will compare favorably
with the last, when they yielded 1O2
bushels to the acre.
The corn prospects of Washington
county while not up to lasts years, is by
no means Encouraging. The acreage is
large, the average stand fair and many
fields are quite forward.
Pittsburg Smelter: The heavy rains
this week while very discouraging to far
mers who had Just commenced harvest.
ing wheat, are encouraging as far as the
corn is concerned, washing off the worms
and giving the corn another chance.
Sedan Graphic: There is no doubt but
the worm now 80 destructive here to the
corn is identical with the cotton worm
of the South. The government entomol-
ogist in his report for 1880, gives illus
tration and q minute description of the
worm and moth 80 numerously present
in this and adjoining counties and per
haps elsewhere. There seems to be no
practicable remedy yet discovered, and
the only course for Us to pursue is to let
them alone and take care of what is left |
when they are gone. We copy as fol- |
lows from the report: In those corn |
states which do Dot grow cotton, it is
greatly dreaded. Whole crops are ruined |
in Kansas, Kentucky South illinois, and
Missouri, and scarcely year passes with
oat much damage being done. Accord
ing to Riley, there are two troods of the |
worms year in those states, and very
early and very late corn fare the worst,
the intermediate varieties usually escap-
ing severe injury. In seasons of pro-
tracted length third brood is sometimes
which for want of other food,
lives upon the kernels of well-npened
Ears. TheC Columbus Advocate, after making
investigation with regard to the same
worm, rays: The green cotton worm is
he product of white miller which LAYS
ts eggs in great numbers. The worm in