Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-18

Continued rains.
Corn is looking fine.
No further cases Of "blsckleg" reported
The boys from up the Smoky and
blackberry have been down again, gather
ing in their cattle.
Mr.. VIM. Strait, one of our new neigh
bors, is preparing the foundation for {
large stone house.
Letters just received from the boy
who are out on the wild horse range, IL
northeastern New Mexico, state that the!
are meeting with very poor success. The!
also anticipate trouble from Indians.
Coyotes have been unusually trouble
some of late; several calves have beer
killed along the blackberry. A trio, con
sisting of brindled dog and pair o.
grey wolves, has done considerable dam
age in the Forester pool 1t is said that
Mr.. Wrn. Olive encountered the she
wolf few days ago, just south of For
roster Brothers, and, being well mounted
gave chase. He ran her out onto the
fats, south of the fence, and "circled" her
till she escaped into bluff. She was,
with some difficulty, dislodged, and, after
another race, he succeeded in roping her
but she gnawed off the rope. Roping heI
again, he dragged her till dead, ending the
chase on "Wild Horse" near Mr.. Clement
Youngs.
In the WORLD of the 4th, j. Cantrel b.
takes issue with certain statements made
by x, in regard to failure of crops here
during the past seven years. He at
tributes these failures to lack of thorough
ness in planting and negligence in tending
crops. Describing the slipshod ways OF
the so-called farmers, he says that deep
blowing he has not seen here; then adds
that the few notable exceptions, who did
their work thoroughly, never failed to
raise corn. Thus he would assert that
the scores of farmers who came here,
trained in the thorough methods of the
East, Immediately lost all energy and
ambition, and became utterly slack. Does
this look reasonable? His memory GER
tainly must have been little bit treacher-
GUS just here; for there were men In his
own neighborhood who farmed in the
most thorough manner, yet failed. He
might, for instance, in 81, have seen a
near peighbor, with two yokes of oxen,
stirring the soil as deep as the pillow could
go. He might also nave seen the same
gentleman giving his corn it's third thor
ough cultivation when man and horse
were both hidden by the luxuriant growth.
This surely ought to have merited an
abundant crop: the twelve acres yielded
not one bushel Numerous other in
stances can be given, with names and
dates, if desired, of farmers who did their
work as thoroughly as any in the East,
and yet met with complete failure. Not
long ago Mr.. B. commended the deep
blowing of a new neighbor. Is he aware
that the oats on that piece of ground
(Which, in fact, was twice plowe0 is so
poor as to be hardly worth cutting for
fodder? Mr.. B., who is thorough
farmer, can hardly have forgotten that in
'79 and 80 he sold his corn crops, in the
shock, to neighbors, and that, as the
gentlemen stated, there was no corn
worth gathering. Very few farmers left
here, he states, in '83. Here he must have
been trife forgetfuL But, surely, he
must remember that he himself so far
lost faith that, in the autumn of that year,
he hesitated long whether or not it was
worth while to pay the cost of proving
up" or simply go east, abandon his
homestead, and lose the sole reward of
his five years labor. Fortunately, he
listened to his "croaker" neighbors, held
his land, and now is able to place it on
the market at good figure. Mr.. B. init
mates that K, looking from cattleman's
standpoint, has been prejudiced IL his
view of the case. OF course, it is very
probable that a person who is holding
cattle, and whose first impressions of this
country were hot winds, scorched crops
and discouraged farmers, may have his
glasses little discolored. But is it not
equally possible that a gentleman who is
engaged in land business, and is DESTROYS
of selling his own real estate, may also be,
&rsQ a.
views? But, though Mr.. B. and x. take
opposite views Of the case yet they arrive
at the same conclusion-that there is no
profit in straight farming here. There is
no question, however, that tock-farming
does pay; and we believe that when this
country is all occupied by men engaged
in that business, the era Of assured pros
perity for western Kansas will have come |