Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-10-31
KANsAs FARa1Ne

LfaMGaEG Alll-clte i -A9 Ltlr
Bsr ssys that five dollars an hour isgOOd
wages. Time given to properly select.
ing and saving seed corn now VIII pay
more than that. Eleven good ears IN
! the place Of ten, for the same work and
care OF one acre, viii give three bushels
more of corn at least,and worth dollar.
BE must be q slow coach who can noise
leC6 three peCks Of good seed corn from
the field in an hours time, and that VIII
plant five acres and give i've dollars
more Of COrn-the chances are IN favor
Of ten.
! Oswego Independent: The latest esEi-
mates Of the corn crop places the total
/ production this year at z,OOU,OOO,OOO
/ bushels, or 195,OOO,OOO bushels more
than In any previous year. About three
/ fOurths Of the entire crop has been hsr-
/ vested, and the remainder Is considered
safe. This should shut up all CrOakers
! who are not YET ready to admit that
good times are coming. Such a pile Of
raw material for hogs, hominy and
| whisky ought to satisfy any one that
the country is bound to be prosperous.
Chicago Iatsr-Ocsan: Kansas, about
/ which the eastern press are disposed to
/ crack Jokes about "its cyclones and grass
hoppers drought, ETC." has In ten years,
by accurate statistics, raised $I.O36, 262,-
264 worth Of products. 1t is only an IN
FAINT, and yet stands fifth In the great
wheat growing states IN the union. 1t
looks as if the infant might OutliVe its
critics.
Usage City Free Press. Most farmers
are through cutting corn and sowing
their winter wheat. There has been
but very little wheat soWn this fall.
! Geo. Watkins has the only piece we
know Of and it looks well. There has
also been much less corn cut this season
than usual, and we find that there will
not be One-haf the cattle fed in this Vi
einity as there was last year.
A farm of 100 acres in Graham county
was sold the other day for 50 700. As
this Is one of the extreme northwestern
counties of the state, it is considered to
be a very good criterion as to the value
of land in that county which a few years
ago could have been had for a song.
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, in
the order named will be the great corn
states this year, Missouri viii not gar
ner as much corn by 100000 to $780,
600 bushels as last year, while the in
crease in Kansas viii be over 100000
bushels.
Kansas Farmer: A heap of stones
after lying two or three years will leave
the soil beneath them much richer than
before. This Is probably in some cases
due to disintergratien Of the stone, which
is the mode Of which all soils are formed.
Hiawatha World: The fall is upon US
and we know what our fields, gardens
and orchards have yielded and will
yield. The wheat is light, but Of oats
and corn he yield will be from thirty
] five tn saUnutv-fi va orTunaIa mar aura
Atchison Globe: A miller in whose
Judgment we have confidence, says that
this years crop OfWheat, so far as it has
passed through his hands. will only make
lthree-quarters as much flour per busheI
az the crop Oflast year.
Lyndon Journal: Roy Smith, a young
farmer living a mile north of the city,
brought two ears of yellow corn TO our
office recently that measured twenty
six inches of solid corn. His corn was
planted May 10.
Farmers of Osborne county have been
somewhat retarded in sowing by the
Hessian fly. Now, however, they are en-
gagged IN the work with renewed vigOr
and are rapidly making up for lost
time.
Paola Republican: W. C. jenkins, OF
MarysVille, brought in to the far the
other day two squashes weighing $50
pounds, both raised on one vine. They
filed his wagon nearly full.
Larned Optic: Some Of our farmers
are sowing wheat yet It is too late to
SOW wheat now, although if the rain fall
is reasonably heavy, late seeding will
probably make a fair crop.
Alma Enterprise: Winter wheat is
starting out in good shape and looking
well. There was a good many acres
soWed this fall in the Mill creek val
ley.
Kingman Courier: This county beats
the world for sweet potatoes as it does
for nearly verything else in the shape
Of an agricultural product.
i Columbus Advocate; The sweet pota-
TO crop is no failure in Cherokee county
this fall, judging from thenumber on the
market.
A thousand barrels of apples we're
packed and shipped from Hiawatha,
Brown county, In one week.
The Kenneth Seminal saas that corn
is so plentiful in that county that it only
brings Is cents per pushel.
A large yield of fruit was had in Os-
borne county this year, and it was Of g
universally good quality.
Destructive prairie fires have been
been doing great damage to hay in Clay
county lately.
A Wichita man exhibits two beats
which he raised, each weighing seven.
teen pounds.
Oats were not as good a crop this
year in Reno county as they were las
year.
A pear was raised In Summit county
this year twelve inches in circumfer
ence.
Wheat is reported making good pro