Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-19
KANSAS FARMING

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KANSAS FARMING
The late potato crop in Wilson county
will not be ~ large.
A large apple yield Is reported in
Crawford county this year.
A farmer in Wilson county reports an
oat yield of 70 bushels to the acre.
One farmer in Barber county reports
q yield of ninety bushels of corn to the
acre.
Farmers in Sedgwick county have
commemorate put in a large acreage OF
wheat.
A farmer in Pottawatomie county
raised an onion fourteen inches in cir
conference.
Parsons Sun: Such crops of grapes
and pears were never known before in
this vicinity.
lola Cowrant: Several hundred dollars
worth of hay is shipped out of the coun-
ty every day.
Barnes Enterprise: There is more
hay being made in Washington county
this year than ever cefore.
Fifty bushels to the acre is the esti-
mated yield placed on a large number of
corn fields in Sedgwick county.
The grain buyers state that the quail
ity of wheat is much better this year
than last. About rs cents is paid tor
the best wheat.
Burton Monitor: II. s. Thompson
boasts of having the largest hay stack
in the county, it being 800 feet long and
containing about 100 tons.
Parsons San: The pestife1ous maple
worms have about completed the task
of stripping the maple trees of their
foliage for the second time this year.
Corn, in some fields, will average fully
fifty bushels per acre in Barber county.
OF course throughout the county the av-
erage will be somewhat under the above
figures.
An excellent product of the third crop
of alfalfa will be garnered in Barber
county this year. Three crops from one
sowing make agriculture a very profit
able calling in this state. Why is not
alfalfa good crop to SOW?
Marion Record: Mr.. Albert Penning-
ton, of Wilson township, has shown Us q
single limb or twig from his apple orch
ard, less than twelve inches long, con-
tanning fourteen apples, averaging about
nine inches in circumference.
Fleetwood Express: August TWAIN
scheidt informs US that he has over 80
600 trees on his farm. Ina very few
years Mr.. T. will have an abundance OF
fuel, and his example might be followed
with profit by every farmer in Barton
county.
Chsnute Times: All the reports from
the prairie country indicate q very good
yield of corn. The season has been
quite favorable during the last two
months. OF course there will be NJ
corn along the Neosho bottom on &C.
count of the July flood.
Lawrence Herald Considerable fax
has been threshed and is now being
brought to market, for which the farm
ers receive IS cents per bushel. This
does not make very profitable crop, as
the average yield this year is only about
five bushels per acre.
Nationalist: L. D. Stephens, of James
Crossing, Jackson county, known to q
number of Riley county citizens, raised
over 1000 bushels of fax on eighty
acres of land this season. The mark.
ct price in Topeka is $1.O5. This land
was seeded to wheat last fall, but it was
frozen out and fax planted.
Marysville Ne,ps: Reuben Bull has an
apple tree which is q curiosity. Last
year the tree with the exception of two
branches, was very full of fruit, yielding
about seventeen bushels. This year
those two branches are fuller with fruit
than anything we have seen, while the
balance of the tree is entirely barren.
Yates Center argus: The amount Of
hay put up in Woodson county this year
is simply enormous, as any one can read
lily convince himself by ride over the
county in any direction. Owing to the
favorable season the crop, too, is some
thing unusual, the yield per acre in
many cases being as high as two are
three tons.
Halstead Independent: VIM. Spore
brought a branch of peach tree to this
Office the other day which called forth
expressions of admiration from all who
saw it. 1t was about five feet in length
and, together with the lateral twigs, had
upon it ninety-four nice, large peaches.
Notwithstanding the general failure Of
the peach crop in this vicinity, NJ.
Spore has q good crop.
Syracuse Journal: The condition Of
the beef market is showing unusual
strength at this time in comparison with
month since, and the apparent diff
Guilty to keep the market supplied with
good beef in quantity beyond the de-
mand, appears to do away with the early
estimate That the market would rule low
in consequence of glut, although there
are three months yet to pass before the
grass run viii be over on which to thor.
oughly tell.
lis said that $4,000 per quarter i
paid to the pensioners Of Kansas.