Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-01-31
RARMNe N KANSAS
Noteworthy Incidents Among the Farmers
OF the State.


OF the State.
The Louisville Republican, gives the
following advice: Quite often we hear
the cOmplaintnOWadayE coming from the
farmers and stock men of the high
prairie IN regard to Wind-breakes and
shelter for stock. Out on the prairie
away from the streams the country Is
absolutely at the mercy Of the wind,
which is very damaging to stock in Win
ter time. Now this defect can be easily
and perfectly remedied with light ex-
pense by planting out thrifty, rapid grow
ing forest trees-cOttOn wood, box alder
and soft maple are of this class. The
trees should be planted so as to border
on the north of the stock yards and cor
rails thus breaking the main current Of
the wind and passing it by upon either
side Of the break. The break should
not be planted so as to have the trees
line each way, but so soon as to have the
trees IN the second row alternate with
the spaces in the first, ETC., thus
forming a perfect shield to stock,
and to your own residence, if desired
against the chilly blasts Of Winter which
are more disastrous to both man and
beast than the want of sufficient food.
Farmers, try the forest-tree wind break,
it viii cost but little, save your time and
labor, both of which you can spare in the
opens up. Besides serving as a shelter
to stock, the Wind-break, If sufficiently
large, viii, after few years growth, sup
ply the house with fire wood and the
farm with fence timber sufficiently to
pay twice the cost of its planting, tend
ing, ground rent and tax.
The average yield of corn per acre in
Kansas last year was fOrty-two bushels
the greatest ever known. The nearest
approach to this average was in 1873,
when every acre planted to corn yielded
little over thirty-seVen bushels. The
total crop last year amounts to over 1907
100000 bushels an increase of nearly
forty million of bushels over the big crop
of 1882. In round numbers, counting
both Winter and Spring, this State has
fifty million bushels Of wheat this year,
and nearly two hundred million bushels
of corn. 1t looks as though We are 90
ing to have an early Spring and if so you
may look for a heavy migration and one
of the largest crops ever known which
will put Kansas to the front.
Eureka Republican: The rabbit crop
this year beats the memory of the oldest
inhabitant. They are so thick that one
farmer described them as running in his
corn-feld like a drove of sheep. They
have been shot by the hundreds, but
where one is killed a dozen seems to come
TO the funeral. The game dealers in town
are paying a nickel piece for them, and
farmer boys who want a little pocket
money can do good thing for themselves
and the trees by killing the rabbits and
selling them. They are mostly shipped
east.
Wa-Keeney World: Mr.. Ely lives
twelve miles south of Buffalo Park He
raised fifty acres of corn the past season.
Mr.. Fosdick tells US, which yielded 3
700 bushels. Plenty of it, our informant
states, would make good seed corn in
any country. 1t strikes US that an aver
age of fifty-four bushels an acre on fifty
acres of land out in Grove county is cal !
eulated tOstagger the senses of the doubt |
ing Thomases in more localities than
one.
Baled hay sells for twelve dollars a ton
at OsWego.