Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-28
Sorghum Hay.

Sorghum is fast coming to the front.
Here is report from Cowley county
farmer, as published in the Winfield
Courier:
ITO show the value Of sorghum hay
we will recite an incident told by a gen.
tleman who shipped to this country lot
of steers last fall from Kansas City, to
be wintered and grass fatted for the mar
ket next summer. This steer had got
down in the car and had been badly
trampled and severely bruised and in
jurd internally, SO that by the time he
reached his destination he could hardly
stand on his feet and was ''off bis feed
and his owner looked on him as a dead
steer. The animal was turned into an
enclosure where there were several kinds
of cured feed, sorghum hay, corn shucks,
millet, prairie hay and straw. That
steer m0ped around a couple of days
and commenced to eat little. He had
his choice but ate nothing but sorghum
hay. The feed loosened the bowels,
the fever went down, the bruises healed,
and the steer is good for $50 next fall.
Two crops OF this sorghum hay can
four to five tons to the acre. 1t beats
prairie hay.
The following from the Cedarvale
Star shows very conclusively that cotton
can be made a very profitable crop IN
southern Kansas: The Star man has
been interviewing the cotton raisers this
week, and finds the product of Chautau-
qua county for 1888 to have been 2O4
bales, or 102, 600 pounds, which brought
an average net price OF cents per
pound, making So 100 for the estimated
40S acres occupied by the crop, or $50 an
acre. Compare this sum with the
amount realized from any equal acreage
of corn on the same quality of land, Gor
the cotton was invariably raised on poor
upland) and it does net need further
argument to prove cotton to be protita-
| BILE crop for this country. Any one
wanting to experiment can secure seed
by addressing the Newport Ginning CO.,
at Niota. Chautauqua county. The
seed sells at 70 cents per hundred
pounds.
President Otis, in his address before
the Kansas Dairy association at Topeka.
on the 5th inst, said: There is no
branch of agriculture that might be sue
cessfullv followed in our state OF more
| importance than dairying. and yet there
! is not one in which the average farmer
is less posted or more imperfectly in
formed. < : In the sections Of the
country where thew make business of
dairying and the art is rightly under
stood. the average yield per COW Is not
| less than $40 and is often pushed up as
high as $50 or 800 per annum.
Have you ever thought what a diff
/ ference it would make IN the appear
ance of this country If there were trees
growing alons~the line OF every quar-
! ter section about two rods apart: 1t
would not take much time or money to
plant q good tree every two rods around
| your farm and in two years you would
/ have hive fence post The Usage for
such purpose is first rate and can be
/ had for tribe.
If farmers are wise they will not
plant fax. 1t takes more moisture
| than anv other crop, leaves the ground
| in miserable condition and does not
pay from money point OF view. 1t Is
| harder on the ground 10 RAISE one crop OF
| fax than TO raise four successive crops OF
| wheat or corn. Flax farming Is
wretched failure in this state
The Kansas People last week advised
those who were talking OF planting 20
! tatoes right away 20 walt awhile Ne
/ should consider 5jsss little early consid-
| ering the weather just now.
Cowley county viii probably sow 800
bushels Of cane seed in 1883. Cane i:
| becoming one of the greatest forage
plants in the United States
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