Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-09-08
STOCK AND FARM.

i Jewell Republican: Golden rod sni
snow on the-mountalns sdorn the prGi
ries.
| The ears of corn about Toronto, in thu
Verdigris valley, measure fifteen inches
In length.
| jamestown Ksnsan: The short crops
in Kansas appear to be worse in newspa-
pers than anywhere else.
| Coolidge Citizen; One of the large
droves of cattle which passed through
here from Texas to Montana is returning.
Jewell City Republican: L. N.
Walling of Cawker City proposes to
irrigate ten acres Of land by wind mill
power.
Toronto Republican: One hundred
bushels of corn to the acre; how does
that strike you? Plenty Of that kind in
the Verdigris valley.
Cedar Vale Star: D. O. Mills will SOW
seventy five acres Of wheat. he thinks
there will be double the acreage sown
this fall that there was last.
Washington county farmers are buy
ing large numbers of western Kansas
cattle and hogs to eat up their enormous
corn crop.
The Sherman Dark Horse says: "The
large amount of poor corn in Sherman
county to-day is, as rule, the result Of
poor farming"
Burlington Independent: William
Crotty sold 1T head of choice steere, in
Chicago, at 6 cents; top of the market.
They averaged 1875 pounds each, and
were the best lot ever shipped from this
county.
Ivanhoe Times: There rs about fifty
acres of castor beans planted in this
county, which will averge twenty BUSH
els per acre, and at q $125 per bushel,
the owner willshave quite a snug little
sum of the lucre.
Peabody Graphic: The largest bunch
Of plums we ever saw was sent to this
Office few days ago by Mrs. T. G.
Thoburn. The bunch looks like q big
cluster of grapes, having fifty-four
plums growing on the branch within
length of seven inches.
Jewell City Republican: Pat Fay
unloaded hundred head of cattle at
this station few days ago, which he
had purchased in western counties. He
now has seven or eight hundred cattle
and three hundred hogs which he pur.
poses to feed this winter.
Webster Enterprise: Mrs. W. B.
Fulkerson has q nice patch of cotton
growing in the yard back of the house,
which is full of bloom and promises to
make good crop. Mrs. Fulkerson says
that cotton grows as fine hare as any
where she has ever seen it raised.
Salina Herald: We learn that the
wheat crop is yielding a much better
quality of wheat and also larger guam
tlty than was expected. One farmer, q
few miles north of town, has threehed
1000 bushels, when his estimate was
that his yield would not reach over 5000
bushels.
Geuda Springs Herald: J.B. Clifton,
three miles east of the city, has four tons
of grapes this year, 700 bushels of
apples and sold $125 worth of cherries
and blackberries. Who says this is not
fruit country? The fruit business has
just commenced here. We need ten
times as many fruit growers as we now
have.
DowDs Chief: John Rathburn, last
week, threshed large field of wheat for |
q German, about ten miles south of this
place, that turned out forty three BUSH
els to the acre. There may be places in
this state that can raise better corn than
can be found in Osborne county, but
when it comes to raising wheat our
county can lay it over any Of them.
Belleville Democrat: Reports from
all parts of the county show that the
corn has not been hurt to amount to
anything by the dry weather. OF course !
there are some farmers who will have q |
small crop, but there will always be
some who will not raise any thing if the |
season is ever so good. Corn that has
been properly tended will make the
largest crop ever raised.
Kinsley Mercury: George s. Shaw,
Of Brown township, exhibits sample of
the old fashioned ten-rowed Yankee corn.
This corn was ripe and ready to be gath
cred by July LIST, and made an average
Of forty bushels to the acre. It was ma
tured before the hot weather set in. II
erybody in this part Of Kansas had
planted this sort OF corn last spring,
would have raised good crop
that's all,
The Wayne township, Edwards coun-
~ Farmera' olnh held its re 0uIor meat