Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-08-28
STOCK AND FARMING.

very fair crop this year.
The castor bean crop is unusually
heavy in Neosho county.
A very good crop OF corn will be
raised in Linn county, this year.
Wheat in Wilson county averaged
about thirty bushels to the acre.
Wheat in Philips county neat about
thirty bushels to the acre, this year.
Some fields in Butler county will yield
eighty bushels of corn to the acre.
Robert Rogers, of Harvey county, is
Smelling his crop of $4,000 bushels of
corn.
A great deal of ground in Rawlins
county is being prepared for the fall
season.
A great deal of corn in Edwards
county will run up to fifty bushels to
the acre.
Butler county people are excited over
petroleum floating on the surface Of the
West Branch.
''Pride of the North" new variety of
corn, has raatured in Chase county in
ninety-five days.
The fax yield in Linn county netted
the farmers who raised that product this
year very neat sum.
A few quails survived the cold of last
winter, and the Mcpherson Fireman. calls
for their preservation.
Some fields of oats are reported in
Washington county as having turned out
eighty bushels to the acre.
Wheat stocks in some sections of But
her county, were nearly ruined the other
day by an overflow of the Walnut river.
Beloit Gazette: Farmers report the
prairie grass thickening up finely and
that fair crop Of wild hay will yet be
cut.
Lawrence Journal: The early potato
crop in yield, and especially in quality,
was never quite SO good in this section
as this year.
Louisville Republican. In spite of
the dry spell several weeks ago the pota-
to crop is very large, splendid in quality
and finds a ready sale at fair prices.
Holton Signal: There is no use deny
ing the fact that the corn crop will be
short, but jackson county will produce
more than enough to carry her through.
Horse-fy time is fully come, and
every man who owns team should pro-
tect it with good netting. Flies can
knock flesh off of horses faster than hard
work.
Sedan Journal: The threshers are busy
throughout the county. They report
that in numerous cases the yield of wheat
is five bushels or better than was ex-
pected- The quality is first-class but
the prices, they are perfectly horrible !!
Kansas Farmer: Hon. Martin Mohler,
of Downs, Osborne county, is well known
as one of the most intelligent and success
full wheat growers of Kansas. He has
experimental considerably with the
various new varieties in order to find
some reliable variety that he could re-
commend to other farmers of the state.
The Mediterranean Hybrid winter
wheat is the variety that has given him
the best results for the past three years.
Kansas City Liue- Stock Indicator: A
good farmer living not far from Kansas
City informed the Indicator that he has
found, this year, from actual experiment
that in curing heavy clover, hay tedder
will pay its cost in about one day. This
is an implement common enough and
considered almost indispensable in east
ern hay fields, but practically unknown
to western people. Our friends who
has fat land and heavy hay crops, says
he has rsde no similar investment
than $40-that pleased him better than
theibuying of his tedder, which performs
work that ten men could not do in the
same length Of time.
Kansas City Livestock Indicator:
Our cattle feeding friends will notice
with considerable interest the statement
by ex-Gov. Elder, in which he says:
Ny experience has led me to believe
that shelled corn will put on as many
pounds OF beef in 120 days as ear corn
will in ITO days, requiring less hogs,
less labor and less care; SO I advise
feeders to shell their COMMAND burn their
cobs. He has no faith in the value of
oobs or cob meal for food. Gov. Elder
may not be an oracle in these matters,
but he is one Of our Oldest and best
feeders, and never feeds cattle for fun,
but always for every dollar to be got out
of them.
Manhattan Mercury: A. J. Thompson
is the owner of half Jersey heifer that
was dropped August 10th, 1883.
August 10th, 1885, she brought a fine
three quarter jersey heifer. No test
was made of her milk and butter quail
ties till the week commencing February
10th, 1886, when, on her ordinary feed
and treatment, she gave 116 pounds and
twelve ounces of milk, or little more
than two gallons day. The cream from
l.