Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-05-01

county, Gxty had Of grade Hereeord
yearling bulls, aid to be the best lot d
half bred and cross bred Hereeords n
the country. The firm believe in using
the best strains Of blood only for the inn
provement Of their cattle.
Dodge City Globe: To those accus-
toned to range life, Ford county to-day
compared with year ago, appears like q
decay in ones life. Now we hear men
talking about what is the best grass seed
to SOW for pasture. Their idea of plant
ing trees to shade stock in the pasture
and other matters in the rearing and
careing for live stock, that as we
said only few years ago would have
sounded strange and altogether out Of
place. It is evident, however, that care
and attention is to be given to our live
stock in the future, such as has been un-
known here in the future, such as has
here in the past.
st. Marys Express: Mr.. Isaac Keyser,
of the Kaw Valley, has patch of twenty
eight acres of timothy grass on bis farm.
It was sown last year, and looks as fine
and nice this spring as grass possibly
can. It is unmixed with weeds, and
covers the ground as evenly and nicely
as carpet. It furnished feed for stock
during all the past winter when uncover
ed from snow and ice, and will make a
vast quantity of first class hay this sum-
mer. Mr.. Keyser expects to realize
more cash money from this grass than
he could have from good crop of wheat,
and believes that farmers cannot too
soon abandon the raising of these crops
which are uncertain and Improbable.
Already the Colorado papers are an
nounced that the days Of the range cat
tie business of that state are numbered
This prediction comes a little earlier
than we looked for, but now that the
tide of immigration has reached them,
and still travelling, we shall not be sur
prised to hear the same thing from
Wyoming, Montana and other range
countries. Stockmen should learn some
thing from the experience of their
brothers in Kansas, and secure all the
range they can before it is too late, for
the time is not far distant when open
ranges will surely be thing of the
past.
Oskaloosa Independent: The upland
wheat in this part of the state is virtual
ly a failure, there being only here and
there field which will make even half a
crop. In most of the bottoms through
out Jefferson county, however, the fields
look well and give promise of fair crop.
This makes practically, three failures in
succession counting the ruinously low
prices that have prevailed for year or
two-and will tend more than ever to
discourage wheat planting hereabouts.
Tame grass and COWS will be the tenden-
cy in this vicinity from now on-a vast
change for the better.
lola Register: Mr.. Allen Mcdonald
received one of the finest horses that has
ever been brought to Allen county. It
is thoroughbred Clydesdale, bred in
Dumfries Scotland, from which place it
was directly imported. By certificate
from the Clydesdale Horse Society of
Great Britain and Ireland" we find the
horse registered as follows: "Lord Will
Liam, 4547. foaled May 1888, color bay,
bred by r. Kennedy, Newlands, Dunn
fries; sire Young Prince Charlie (253O);
dam Maggie of Broomdyke3 (2416);
sire of dam, Lofty (460).
Ten years ago the loco weed was un-
known in this state. Two years ago it
appeared to be taking the place of buffa-
10 grass. It was so common, and from
that cause was| credited the loss on cat
tie and horses that year, followed by a
hard winter that done up loco-eating
cattle. Last year the weed was not near
SO plenty, and it is thought by two or
three years more it will have almost dis
appeared from this section of country.
Not only owners of live stock, but
everybody in the country is interested in
seeing this pest disappear.
Medicine Lodge Cressett: The native
grasses in south western Kansas are the
buffalo, gramma, blue-stem, red-top,
bunch grass, wild-rye, pea-vine, joint
grass and various kinds of water grasses
and reeds. The buffalo, gramma grasses,
that few years ago had almost complete
possession, are rapidly giving way to
blue-stem and red-top. Buffalo grass,
like the animal for which it is named,
will not stand civilization, and year by
year grows scarcer. Where this year
the ground is covered by the short,
curling buffalo, it will, next year, grow the
tall graceful blue-stem.
Marysville Ne,Us: A yearling grade
Hereford bull will sell from $40 to $50,
and heifers almost as high. Why will
it not pay the farmers of the north half
of the county to raise more of these.
The farmers of the south half are fur
nishing hundreds of these cattle each
year, to the ranchmen of western Kansas,
Colorado and New Mexico, but only a
few are yet raised in the north half.
Two are three farmers can go in togeth-
er and buy a thoroughbred bull and
clear enough from him in one year to
pay for him.