Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-03-27
STOCK AND FARMING.
Information Concerning the Principal
Interests Of Kansas.

Information Concerning the Principal
Interests Of Kansas.
The present month OF March, writes
| W. P. Higginbotham, Manhattan, opens
up rough; not severely cold, but hard on
stock In poor condition. All of our peO-
pie VIII now resolve to prepare sheds and
more feed for next winter, and very many
/ viii neglect to do so, and next winter
viii probably witness a repetition Of the
/ losses Of this one. sit was ever thus"
and viii always be thus. Stock well
cared for, however, Is selling at good
/ figures. My own sales have been very
satisfactory, and prospects for the future
trade are good. Ny Josephine COW,
Rozanna's Rose ID, dropped a very
/ handsome calf recently, sired by Imp.
/ Double GlOster. Her last calf, dropped
March u, 1885, at eleven months
weighed 1, $50 pounds. This one seems
to be an equally good calf. 1 shall offer
/ at my sale, May 4, 1886, a few calves by
Imp. Double Gloster; and, by the way,
my Offering viii be a very superior lot of
stock, all in fine condition.
Manhattan IndustriaIist: The inter
esting experiment made during the past
.
given on alternative days water warmed
to the temperature of ninety degrees
Fair, receiving during the remaining
/ days water as usual directly from the
well, shows with a surprising uniformity
| gain for the two millzings Immediately
( following the drink of warm water,-a
/ gain in the amount Of milk varying from
| ten to forty per cent. From this expert
ment and a half dozen others which we
have made upon the college farm, we are
/ strongly of the opinion that If warmth
can be got into an animal and kept about
him by artificial or other means, the
question of getting the most out of the
animal for food consumed is reduced to
its simplest form.
S. Mccullough, Ottawa, Franklin
county says: my herd Of Berkshires
have wintered well and have come
through in fine condition, and I start in
on the new year with the best herd that
L ever owned During the past year I
have added sows to my herd. Among
them is the fine imported SOW, Proud
Princess. This SOW won four first prizes
in England last year, including first at
Bath and west of England, and first at
royal show OF England, and first at the
London Canada, show. Ny sales for the
month of February were twenty-five.
These pigs went to four different states.
Mcpherson Freeman: We have talked
with farmers from every section Of the
county and find the prevailing opinion to
be that the wheat has been about as bad
ly killed as it was a year ago. The drift
ing snow left it exposed to the coolest
weather ever witnessed In this county
and hence the life has been frozen out OF
the plant
Atwood Citizen: Mr.. Gallagher is
foreman Of the McGillen ranch near
Strattan, and is one Of the most expert
enced cattle men on the range. He in
forms US that out Of about 400 head OF cat
tie held at theranch, only four head have
been lost during the severest winter ever
known In the northwest.
Sterling Gazette: The winter wheat
IN this section is reported to be all right,
notwithstanding reports to the contrary,
There Is still danger from freezing if
''Winter continues to inger in the lap Of
spring"
Osborne Farmer: Some of our far
mers report large numbers of chinch /
bugs IN the corn fields, the snoW-drifts !
having protected them during zero wealth !
er.
J. L. Hastings, Of Wellington, Sumner /
county, sold an imported two-year-old /
stallion last week for s., 200