Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-07-04
KANSAS FARMING.

KANSAS FARMING.
Notew orthy incidents Among The Farmer
Of The State.
There are 0,19l acres in prairie gras
in Clay county.
The value of the poultry crop of Cla.
county last year was 1924
O5erlin Herald: Decatur county viii
this year have the largest crop OF gran
harvested in this section.
Oberlin Herald: The best growth o
wild grasses cover the western pralrle
this year known to the oldest settler.
Ell Dorado Republican,: The outlooi
for corn has greatly improved within
the past two weeks. Many fields ar
looking first rate.
Russell Record: Reports from varioul
portions of the county, show that while
wheat will make q very slim crop, ry'
and oats will generally yield well. Corr
is growing nicely. Millet and sorghum
are getting along in good shape.
Sedgwick Paragraph: The oat crol
looms up immense in this section. Th'
corn is also coming out wonderfully
since the warm weather beganin earnest
the wheat slookingsomewhat improved
of late, but it will prove light crop a
best.
Usage City Free Press: The farmerl
have now recovered from their demOrali
cation on account of the late spring, ano
are greatly encouraged at the present
outlook. Corn is jumping up at a sur
prising rate, and if nothing happens il
will soon make up for lost time.
Girard Press: A farmer of this county
has 100 acres of the heaviest tame grass
we have heard of in Kansas. Thirty.fivt
acres is exclusively timothy and thu
balance-65 acres-is mixed with Alsacl
clover. 1t was cut last week, and will
average three tons to the acre. Who
can beat it? This is a fair sample o.
what Kansas can do in "hard times
year.
The condition of crops in Crawford
county is very fair, while nothing tt
boast of. Some farmers have commenced
tothresh tLeir wheat and fair yield il
reported, in some cases better than last
year. Corn is generally in good condi
ton and very fair yield can be expect
ed. Tame grasses are being made quite
a speciality of in this county this yea1
and with very profitable results.
Sedan Graphic; The "Aood or web
worm" is doing nearly as much damage
in this county as the food did. The
worm is light grey in color and not
larger around than a knitting needle
and varies in length from an eight to an
inch in length. The ground is perfectly
alive with them and they are doing i'm.
mense damage to the corn, and unless
they soon disapper the corn now stand.
ing will be entirely destroyed.
Winfield Courier: We have beer
shown some samples of English blue
grass. One bunch was planted last
spring a year and measures three feet
and half in length. and is seeding very
heavily; the other, planted last spring, is
two and half feet high, About fou,
acres altogether hes been planted, as an
experiment, and is SO highly satisfactory
that much more will be sown. As 8
meadow pas ure it is unexcelled, and its
adoption to this climate is an established
success.
Ellsworth Reporter: While it is a fac'
that we will not have more than half q
crop of wheat in this county, it is also q
fact that there are quite number of oul
farmers who will have full crop. AL
most every day we hear farmers say, 81
have as good wheat as | bad last year,
Il have the best wheat in the county,
&C.. all which leads us to believe that
with the very large acreage of corn and
the fine prospect Tor rye, cats and other
crops, Ellsworth county will come out as
well as any county in the state.
Norton Courier: There are many per.
SONS in the far west who keep large focks
of ducks and realize handsome profits
from them. As many as thousand are
kept together. They are fed on wheat
and the annual cost of maintaining each
is about $1.l5. They lay each about
twelve dozen eggs year, which sell fol-
twenty cents per dozen, leaving a margin
of profit of about $l25 for each
duck. A person keeping a thousand
ducks may count on a very good living,
made In very easy way.
Clay Center Times: A good rain Just
now would insure to Us bountiful pota-
the crop. Should good fortune favor us
would our producers heed the lesson OF
the past week, and we might say years.
Last fall our farmers sold their crop at
thirty to fifty cents per bushel. Now our
are shipping them in from
Kansas City and other points and sell
ing them at $3.50. The farmer that raises
and cares for the safe keeping of potatoes
and does not sell just when every body
else does, will always get big price for
his crop. This rule will apply pretty
generally to all other products.
One farmer of Linn county says that it
is not simply luck that his corn is ahead
of his neighbors', but because he selects
his seed. Every fall he selects his seed
and hangs it up; then at planting time
be takes only the kernels in the middle
of the ear. Doing this every year makes
bis corn grow better all the time, instead
of deteriorating, as is the case when the
seed are taken at random from q lot left
in the crib through winter. He had his
ground smooth and well pulverized, and
he does not leave the old stocks to pull
tie corn up when he runs the cultivator
through; and as soon as the corn is we'll
up he harrows the ground to take up all
the little weeds.