Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-30
STOCK AND FARMING

weeks.
A Riley county farmer gathered from
seventy hills of Concords 425 pounds Of
grapes.
This has been hard season for tame
grasses in Usage county. But few fields
have made good stands.
The Manhattan Republic advises all
farmers not to SOW wheat while the
ground is covered with chinch bugs
The Jewell county papers are Of the
opinion that that county will remain
this year the same as last, the banner
corn county of the world.
The corn crop of Stafford county is re-
ported to be excellent, Late rains have
put the ground in good shape and
large acreage of wheat will be sown.
Ivanho Chimney county, Times: J.
G. Newman gets to the front with a corn
cutting story. It is very shocking"
and is as follows: II acres, making 112
shocks, in one day and wasn't much of
day for corn cutUlDg ELMER.
Smith County BuIliten: Not with
standing the chinch bugs have made
great inroads upon the corn in some sec
tions of the county, there is no doubt
but what we will have fine crop. Their
ravages began most too late to do any
great amount of damage.
lola Register: We think it is safe to
say that more broom corn has been
marketed in lola within the past three
weeks. than has been brought here in
any three years, all told. The price
still ranges from $50 to $50, although a
few choice lots have been sold for 500
ton.
Ness City Times: Mr. William Hard
ing, on his farm ten miles north of town,
has a peach orchard grown from pits
which he brought from California pre-
vious to his settlement here. The or
chard covers little less than one acre
of ground and is now beginning to bear,
this year yielding number of bushels
of fine fruit. We are under obligations
to him for few of the peaches.
Augusta Gazette: We presume there
was never another year in which the corn
crop of this country was SO spotted. A
few of our farmers will gather immense
crops, some 80. others 70, 60, so and 40
bushels to the acre, but there are very
many fields that will not yield twenty
bushels, and some will not exceed three
bushels to the acre. Those farmers VINO
put in their crops with Sister" appear
to be the most fortunate.
Garden City CultiUatOr: But mark!
Good planting means deep planting. Ons
our own place corn well planted failed to
terminate because it was not covered
deep enough. 1t did not come up at all
for six weeks, while the same kind of
corn planted on the same kind of land
precisely, and plowed under, came up
promptly and makes good crop with
out irrigation. That covered with hoe,
far more carefully, but not so deep, came
up six weeks later, and is now only in
silk while the other isnearly ripe.
Syracuse Journal: A Z. Spottswood,
of Richfeld, has returned from the Cow
ley county fair, where he had been to
exhibit the products of Morton county.
Among his exhibits were samples of sod
corn, the ears of which measured 1OI
inches in length and 81 inches through,
while his display of millet was the finest
shown. Mr.. S. has great faith in this
country ahd shows it by his works On
his farm near Rich6eld, aside from his
corn, sorghum and millet, he has gath
cred 100 bushels of potatoes and has
grown 1000 fruit trees.
A Finney county farmer says: "a
young lady who was watching my bind
ing harvester at work fell upon the table
and was carried up with the grain. AS the
girl was of about the size Of bundle,
the machine did not recognize the differ
ence and so she came through with ii
neat little string about her waist. One
of the harvest hands caught her as the
machine "kicked' her out, and set her
on the ground right side up, when it
was found that she had been more
frightened than hurt"
The Republic County Horticultural
Society took the fourth premium on gen
eral fruit at the Bismarck fair. They
had sixty five varieties of apples, three
OF pears, eight of crabs, two of grapes,
two of peaches and one of plums
They made twenty entries of plates of
fruit in the general display, and then
took nine first premiums, and four sec
ond premiums. This was the largest
percentage of premiums awarded to any
county in the state.
The Old Ball Player and His Son.
Texas Siftings.
Plunkins was champion baEeballist
when the national game first came into
prominence, nigh twenty years ago.
Both hands are crippled up and be has