Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-16
KANSAS rARaaIrG.

KANSAS FARMING.
Some very fine corn wss raised IN
Cofey county this year.
The corn crop of farmer in Cloud
county this year appointed to $4,000
bushels.
It is thought by men who have travel
ed over the state that third more wheat
has been planted this year than last.
A farmer who went to Stafford in 1873
with large family to obtain living for
and fifty dollars in cash, now has fine
farm Of 24O acres with appearances valued
at $4,000.
Concordia Empire: Corn is very
scarce; the crop is light, and the prices
lighter, which lately isan wrong. When
corn is scarce the price should be higher
and naturally would be so II the markets
were free from manipulation.
Thomas Cat: There are six home
steaders in the eastern part of the county
that did not start for Thomas county
until April Is, that have raised more
corn on sod than they need for feed pur-
poses and are marketing the surplus in
Colby.
Mr.. G. II. Miller, in an article on the
management of orchards ON warm soils,
correctly says the orchardist who neg
lects to care for his his trees
and feed the soil has no more right to ex-
pect permanent good results than the
stock grower has who only occasionally
feeds his live stock.
Farming pays from every point of
view. The idea that farmer can make
an independent living by hard work, but
cannot get rich is full of error. Farming
cannot be compared with banking, be-
cause man has got rich at something
else before he can be banker. But
when due allowance is made for the DIFF
ference of capital invested, we venture to
assert that the average farmer makes
more money, works less, has better
health and lives longer than the average
banker.
Atchison Globe: The Santa Fe elevator
in Atchison has 100, 900 bushels Of 1885
wheat, and only very small portion of
it is fit for milling. Nine tenths Of all
the wheat grown in Kansas in 1885 is Of
the quality known as rejected. Mr.. Role,
superintendent of the elevator, says he
has not received ten cars of 1885 wheat
altogether which will grade No. g. Usu-
ally there is brisk demand for rejected
wheat for shipment to England, but it is
very slow sale this year at any price.
The Kansas City livestock Journal
says: 'The Jersey Red is hog that is
becoming very prominent in favor in
many localities. There are few in the
south. The breed ought to be better rep
resented in the cotton states. Southern
breeders would do well to advertise these
hogs in our columns It is claimed that
the Reds are easily fattened at any age.
That at from seven to eight months old,
they can be easily made to average from
$50 to $50 pounds. That more lean
meat is the rule with these hogs than any
other breed, and that butchers prefer the
meat to that of any other hog, paying in
a number of cases so cents more per
hundred pounds. Special attention has
been called to the superior quality of
the sausage meat. These grades are said
to give general satisfaction wherever
known and reared The Reds are said
to be as prolific in breeding as any other
hog; and those who specially champion
their cause are very emphatic in their as
sertion that this breed will make more
and better pork, to given amount Of
feed than any other. There are two
kinds of Reds-one extra large and
course, the other smaller. Both are
spoken of in the highest terms.''