Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-15
STOCK AND FARM NOTES.

lae Is true, to somewhat less exte
erhaps, OF broom corn, while Mr.. Be.
judges that there are at least 400 acr
OF castor beans planted this wear
where there was 10 last year. This v
nsey IN crops is thing the Register b
ofsen urged, and it is glad to see that Il
ssem Is beginning to be 30 widel
ADOPTED. The advantages of it are oil
NOUS While it is true that corn wi
always be our main crop-and it is rigl
that 1t should be so, for it rarely fails
1t Is nevertheless the part Of wisdom [
provide against possible failure of tn
crop by having other things to fall bac
upon. 1t can hardly ever happen, fe
example, that a man who has plante
com, oat and millet will be without fee
Of some kind. And when in addition {
these man plants broom corn, caste
beans and wheat, he can hardly fail {
have something to sell. Most Kansa
farmers have land enough and to spare
II they give it all to one crop and tina
crop succeeds they are all right. ]
that crop fails they are all wrong. Bet
tor "cast an anchor to leeward" to pro
vide against contingencies.
A leading Leavenworth county hort
culturist gives the following statemen
of the outlook for fruit crop: Peaches
me in bad condition, in fact, there vii
be none. Cherries promise well. Al
Tor apples I never saw the prospect bet
bar Tor years If there is no frost now
10 kill the young buds, the apple CROP
m Kansas and Missouri will be about the
largest that has ever been known. The
trees are just as full of plum healthy
buds as they can be, and as I say if no
1nisfortune happens, the indications
point to an immense crop. The wheat
crop is gone. The weather was so
GOLD while it was about it that the wheat
was entirely frozen out. It was not cold
long enough at any one time, to destroy
tho apple crop. It was plenty cold
enough two or three times to have de-
s&royed the apples, if it had staid long
enough, but the squalls went away be-
fore tie germs were badly affected.
Abilene Gazette: We have heard of a
farmer who lives in one of the central
counties of Kansas, who invented a hen
o-phone, modelled on the principle of a
telephone, by means Of which one relia-
bio old hen, occupying central office
In the hennery, does all the sitting for
tho entire establish leaving the
other hens nothing to do but lay eggs,
scratch up the garden and cackle. As
soon as q new nest has eggs enough in
IT, it is connected with the central office
by q copper wire and the business pro-
oeeds. The only objection to this thing
is that the machine sits so hard that it
occasionally matches out the porcelain
nest eggs along with the others, SO that
one chick in every brood is born with
porcelain eyes. But for this defect the
hen-o-phone would beat any incubator
ever patented.
Dodge City Globe: They have chick
an and geese ranches in Texas along
with other ranches, and if reports are true,
are making money. We have often said
that either, or duck ranch, would do
we'll in this country, for all the poultry
that could not be used in the neighbor-
ing towns along the railroad, could be
shipped to the mountains, where there is
always demand for eggs and poultry
at prices that well pay for shipping. 1t
il necessary to 60 into the business
rightly, first obtaining the best incuba-
tons and then the balance is easily at
tended to.
Stockmen in some of the northwestern
states and territories are profting by the
mistakes made by their brothers farther
east and south, and are making vigor-
Gus fight against over stocking their
ranges. They warn outsiders that they
will not be allowed to work in round-ups
or receive assistance from residents, if
they drive herds into a locality already
filed to its capacity. II they stick to their
taxi, the outside men will thrive under
dikculty, il at all.
Chase County Leader: John G.
Denby, OF Rock creek, fed eight grade
Poland China pigs 100 bushels of corn,
from birth (July IA, 1850 till March 8,
1886, when they were butchered and
averaged 900 pounds net, at which
weight he sold them at As cents per
pound, making his corn bring him As
cents per bushel.
Sedgwick Paragraph: It is thought
that the peach crop will be exceedingly
light this year. We hear quite num-
her complaining about their trees dying,
while others say they will have some
peaches. The apple crop promises a
8ne yield, if trees full of blossoms go for
anything.
Russell livestock Journal: Mr..
Marsh wintered 100 head of cattle at his
ranch on the Smoky and his losses con-
sists only of two small calves which were
trsmpled to death. Good sheds and
plenty of feed accounts for bis good luck.
Iarned Ctronoscope: d. b. Scott has
sold four horses within the past two
weeks for the total sum of $4,000. In
spite of such facts as this there are some
people who affect to believe that this
country does not possess good stock.
Osborne Farmer: Henry Ruth has as
a fine piece of timothy as can be shown
mp in the state. he has seeded down
quite q field of alfalfa this spring, and
win soon be Independent Of prairie grass
both for hay and pasture.
Symmetrical Thomas, Of Wilson coun-
ty, has planted this spring, thirteen hun
dred catalpa trees. That is the kind of