Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-10-17
KANSAS FARMING.

Kansas.
KANSAS FARMING.
Good timothy hay is selling for SIS per
ton in Cherokee county.
A pumpkin weighing 81 pounds, was q
production of Ford county this year.
Buckwheat in some parts of Sedgwick
county, will run fifty bushels to the acre,
One farmer in Sedgwick county, claims
that he has averaged product of 5000
bushels of corn annually for the past
four years.
In Riley county oats are reported to be
making forty to sixty bushels to the acre
while wheat runs from four to twenty
six bushels to the acre.
Smith Thompson says Jewell county
will raise more corn this year than was
raised by the whole thirteen colonies in
any one year of the revolutionary war.
Jewell County Republicans: One of the
sights at the fair is whopping big
squash, weighing $50 pounds. It Is the
production Of Mr.. Thompson, of Wash
ington township.
Oats ara being freely marketed in this
state at present, but wheat is coming in
rather slow. Farmers seem inclined to
hold out this last cereal running chances
for higher price.
There will be oceans of corn raised in
this country this year. The excess in the
western states over 1884, is 185, $40, 600
bushels. Kansas excess alone is over
2O,OOO,0O0 bushels.
Colby Cat: DR.. Edwards brought some
specimens of corn to this Office last week,
that speak we'll for Thomas county. The
corn was planted on old ground but new
er tended at all. The ears were large
and well matured.
Dodge City Globe: We think farmers
could afford to make butter at twenty
five cents pound, yet enough is not
offered for sale TO supply the demand,
and our merchants are compelled to ship
in butter the year round.
Millions of black ants, nearly half an
inch long and having large wings, were
seen in the air in Pottawattom1e county
the other day. Very few lighted. What
are these ants another pest for the far
mer of Kansas to combat against.
Columbus Courier: Timothy seed
sown in the fall on we'll prepared ground
in this country will produce q good crop
of hay the next year. Several parties in
this county cut two tons of hay to the
acre this season from last falls sowing.
There is more money in good crop of
timothy per acre than corn.
Manhattan Industriaist Kansas is
ahead as usual! A gentleman living in
the southern part of the state writes us
that he has "little curiosity" neither
more nor less than wheat and cheat
growing in the same head. We hope to
persuade this gentleman to donate this
specimen to the College Museum, in
which case We shall have something in
that Museum worth talking about.
Intelligence is characteristic of the
average Downs, Osborne county citizen.
Even the school children are tainted with
it. For instance, the teacher asked an
intermediate class the definition of Bach
elor." One scholar said it was q married
man without children; others said it was
this and that, when the mystery was
solved by the fourth scholar saying: TT
is an old maid that never was married,
but had lots of kids" Exercise closed
with red lights.
Bellville, Republic county Democrat:
The surveyors belonging to the Kansas
Western railway company, the line that
is to run from Hiawatha to Denver, pass
ed through Belleville the other day. The
line is to run as near as practicable
through the center of the north tier of
counties, taking in all the county seats.
The. line as run by the surveyors will
take the road through the south part of
town, about three quarters of mile from
the court house square. The road will
cross the Republican river at Scandal.
The surveyors have passed on east, and
now railroad discussion will be the order
of the day for some time.
Greenleaf Independent, Journal: We
have on exhibition at this Office eight
ears of well matured field corn, raised by
julius M. Phillips on his fathers farm
adjoining this city. The eight ears of
corn weigh ten pounds and several
ounces, and measure exactly eight feet
and one inch. Young Phillips who pre-
scented Us with this evidence of his in
dustry, was born in Washington county,
and is now fourteen years of age.
Russian wheat seems to have made q
exceptionally fine crop all over Kansas
this year, where other varieties have
failed. Riley county now offers an in
stance illustrating this fact. The Nan.
haitian Republic says: Coleman Estes
threshed sixty-eight acres of fall wheat
on his farm, on the head of Mcdowell
creek. which averaged twenty-eight
bushels or over to the acre. It is Rus