Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-08-07
STOCK AND FARM NOTES

STOCK AND FARM NOTES
The outlook for q corn crop in Morris
county is only fair.
The drive of Texas cattle to the north
for 1886, is the smallest for many years.
Arizona now boasts Of having over q
million head Of sheep within its borders.
Alton Record: The fax crop has
proven blessing to the farmers this
year:
Tame grasses have been cultivated in
Marshall county this year, with great
success.
The damage to broom corn by ehinch
bugs seems to be quite general in Nc
Pherson county.
Don't fail to select your choice bred
animals, and have them in readiness for
the coming county and state fairs.
Quite considerable number of our
rangemen are greatly in
creasing the grazing capacity Of their
stock ranges by irrigation.
Kansas Farmer: Corn is not suitable
food for young pigs. Oats, rye and
wheat are better. Milk and grass are
the best, but when there is no grass, rye
and oats chopped and mixed with milk
or water and fed warm are very good.
Clay Center Dispatch: Clay has 49,
237 acres of the biggest and finest grow
ing corn in northern Kansas. She has
juPt harvested SO, 476 acres Of wheat, o.
939 acres Of oats, and in due time will
dig 1000 acres of potatoes, and cut near
~ 5000 acres of miller.
The Texas Panhandle says: In view
of the changing order in relation to the
cattle business in this country, it would
be good plan for our stockmen to ex-
pertinent with some of the best grasses
for hay, with view of finding out which
is the most reliable in this climate.
Council Grove Cosmos: The Texas
fever which created considerable excite
ment among our stockmen few days
ago seems to have entirely died out. No
or losses are reported among the
stock and the much dreaded disease
seems to have run its course, at least in
this vicinity.
Stockmen in tho Panhandle of Texas,
or north of Red river, don't care to have
their stock designated as 'sand-lappers'
and 'dogies," which term is SO ungen-
erously and so often applied to all Texas
cattle, which is wrong. Sand-lappers
and dogies, as rule, come from along
the coast of Mexico.
Atchison Globe: A gentleman just in
from Phillips and Norton counties re-
ports that wheat, oats and corn in these
counties is the best he has seen anywhere
in the state. The recent heavy rains in
that section have doomed things tremen-
dously. Ten days ago the people were
to get little nervous, and
few were offering their decided quarters
for four or five hundred dollars apiece.
The same could not be now had for
$1,000.
Humboldt Union: Crops this fall will
be abundant and if the price for cereals
and corn Is not run down by spectators
our farmers will get big run from the
corn crop. Too many are ever ready to
attend to the business of providence and
want this and that when no person can
do better than to submit to the weather
and work his crops accordingly. Our
dry goods boxes should be lined with
barb wire and croakers should be set
thereon with impunity. Our town and
county is better off to-day as to crops
than reported by men who cry down
Allen county for advantages personal
and mercenary. Let farmers now look
to the question of transportation and a
speedy settlement of the land question
that all bowling at Kansas City by land
agents may not injure us in the future.
The corn crop is made.
Troy Chief: George H. Robb, of
Severance, has received his patent for
on sulky harrows, dated
July ID, 1886. We have seen one when
folded for transportation, the other when
in position for work. It is more par
constructed for cultivating list
ed corn. The wheels of the sulky trav-
81 on the ridge, and are concave, and
nine inches wide, placed on a square
IRON inch axle, to which the draft bars
are attached by chains, or any flexible
to harrow sections, with
levers so attached as to raise or lower the
harrow, wilhelm operation, and when re-
uired in hard or grassy ground, to in
sert the harrow teeth to greater depth.
The larger wheels, which travel the ridge,
pulverize the clods; the harrow sections
which work the slope of the ditch, pull
verize the clods, and clean the ditch of
weeds and grass, keeping the ditch the
same width at the bottom. From this
imperfect description, corn raisers will
he understand working of the machine.
BE Holds the Fence.
Det' oft Free Press.
Several weeks ago a!Detroiter purchas-