Western cyclone., 1886-12-09
STOCK AND FARM NOTES

STOCK AND FARM NOTES
Kansas Reporter: Mr.. N. H. Pixley
has raised between 5000 and 1000 bush
els of sweet potatoes this year. He had
about so acres into this crop.
Florence Herald: We are informed
that several of our farmers have not vet
sown wheat but are now preparing to do
SO at this writing. A good many have
sown wheat and the late rains have been
considerable benefit to the same. The
past fall was dry one.
Kansas Reporter: The lister, for
planting corn, does not seem to stand as
well with the farmers around hers as it
did year ago. We heard farmer say
not long ago, that sit was the lazy mans
implement and ruined the land"
Thorough plewing is hard to improve
on. II coaxes the soil to be fertile.
Kirwin Ixdependent: Messrs, John
son, who are feeding about 1000 sheep
at Jesse Smiths lost about 200 head,
and others suffered some small losses
during the blizzard. Be ever prepared,
is our parting injunction for no man
knows the day ncr the hour when biz
zard will be on rampage.
The Parsons Sun says that market
gardener who has his garden on the
! bank of Labette creek west of that city
raised three or four acres of white skin
ned onions, many of which weighed near
three pounds each and were grown from
the seed. He was marketing some of
them few days ago and claimed that
his crop cleared him over one hundred
and fifty dollars per acre.
Anthony Republican: I. G. Cuppy,
| whose farm lies near Attica met with a
severe loss by the burning of his barn
last Friday night, and with it six valua-
BILE horses, one blooded bull, five sets of
harness, two hundred bushels of corn,
besides hay and feed. 1t was an incen-
diary fire, and Mr.. Cuppy was absent at
the time. One horse was spotted, white
and yellow, bought by Mr.. Cuppy from
P. T. Barnum, and very highly valued
by its owner. It is to be hoped the
wretch who set the barn on fire may be
speedily caught and punished.
Leon Indicator: Peter johnson is
full feeding forty head Of two year old
steers that weighed 1,040 pounds off the
grass the first of October. He is also
halt corn feeding forty head of two year
olds. George Wright is full feeding
125 head of three year olds on Hickory
creek, and one car losd-twenty head
at his home place above town. The i'm
preston seems to prevail among stock
men that the price of beef cattle will be
better next spring than it has been for
two years. It will have to be, to pay
for feeding 35 cent corn.
Ellis Headlight: State Veterinary
Surgeon Holcomb came up from Topeka,
yesterday and made an examination of
several of the animals of Augustus Shep-
herd, that have died recently. The ex-
animation showed the cause Of the death
was dry murrain, caused by eating too
much dry corn fodder. After the exam
ination of DR.. Shepherds cattle, the DR..
accompanied by Mr.. Shepherd, visited
the herd of John Oolborg, and examined
two of the fourteen dead cattle that died
recently; the cause of death was found
to be from eating corn fodder. The DR..
says that good many cattle are dying
in different parts of the state from the
same cause. The DR.. recommends that
stock be kept out of stalk fields.
Clay Center Dispatch: Sam Simpson
has applied for and received a patent
on a windmill, that it is said by compel
ent judges, far excells any thing in that
line that has ever been invented. The
tower that so much trouble results from
by being blown down, ect., is dispensed
with all but just a single column Of iron
which supports the whole thing, 1t is
arranged so that in case of very heavy
wind the wheel is thrown in the shape
of an arrow and thus offers but little ol
no resistance to q heavy wind. 1t il
said that the wheel runs in lighter wind