Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-01
KANSAS FARMING.

of tho State.
The oat crop is reported immense il
Washington county.
Some corn in Kingman county meas
ures seven feet in height.
Barber county says the Cressett bid
fair to be the finest fruit county in tn
state.
About fit, en- bushels to the acre will
be the wheat yield in Davis county THU
year.
The recent heavy rains have inter
fered much with the work of harvesting
in Phillips comfy.
Potato ougs are doing considerable
damage in certain localities, and it il
feared will cut the crop short.
DESPITE flood, web worms and other
pests corn will make an extraordinary
crop in Wilson county this year.
Fredonia Citizen: The chinch bug has
had hard row to hoe this season on &C,
count ofthe excessive wet weather.
Coal oil diluted, one part coal oil and
seventy-four parts water, is splendid
remedy for web worms, says the Cha
mute Times.
Fredonia Citizen: Those farmers vino
have escaped overflow and web worms
say they will have more corn this season
than they raised last year.
A Kansas farmer says that he put a
stop to the heating of wheat by mixing
with each fifty bushels bushel of salt
and also kept weevels away.
Burlington Patriot: The corn fields in
this vicinity are making splendid show
ing; a good deal of it is four feet high.
The amount of damage done by the web
worms will not be as much as is gener-
ally supposed.
A man at Fort Scott has curiosity at
his place in the shape of grape vine,
which is filled with clusters of grapes
and blossoms too. The clusters are
about six inches long, with nice, round
grapes, and on the same side are BIOS
SONS out in flower.
lola Register: Farmers who have been
cutting prairie hay say that the crop is
nearly twice as heavy as it usually is.
Every available stalk of it should be cut.
It will go far toward supplying the
shortage of the corn crop. 1t is selling
in this market now for 81 ton.
Medicine Lodge Cressex: A farmer
informs US that his second crop of alfalfa
is now ready for harvest. The first crop
was cut on the 31st day Of May. His
only object in raising alfalfa in this
country is that it hurries man to get
his first crop stacked before the second
crop is ready to cut.
Chanute Times: Our farmers have en-.
joyed good crops for some six or seven
years in succession, so that the psesent
shortage, by reason Of high waters and
wet weather, should not be considered
as remarkable or unlocked Tor. There
is no state that boasts of good crops for
more than four years in succession, and
then they are the result of constant ap-
plications of Paris green and other pre-
ventatlves, used to drive away the ar
mics of insects that regularly appear to
prey upon one or more kinds Of grain.
Kansas is certainly far less afflicted in
this line than any other state, and also
suffers far less from the floods or the
like.
Oskaloosa Sickle: Out of over fifty acres
of fax put in by Mr.. Ed. Snyder, some
rs or 26 acres is dead beyond recovery,
and Mr.. s. thinks it was destroyed by
some insect, though he has been unable
to find any. The remainder of the field
is in Lost excellent condition. The whole
piece was in wheat, and in putting in the
fax half of the ground was plowed and
and on the other half the seed was
merely cultivated in; and the dead fax
is on the plowed portion. the good on the
cultivated ground. We hope the cause
of the trouble may be determined, as fax
has been considered proof against almost
any enemy heretofore.