Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-29

Reno county, has sown q number Of
acres to turnips, and will feed and fatten
one hundred head OF cattle and one
hundred head Of hogs from turnips, this
winter. He says he has done 1t before
and can do it again.
Garden City Imprint: The third al
falfa crop will soon be ready for the
moving machine. With good supply
OF water in the bitches, the farmers can
safely calculate on fourth crop.
A1tell Anchor: A. Gadbout, living
SIX miles south of town, informs us that
he would not take thirty-fve bushels
OF corn to the acre for his prospect at
present. Mr.. Gadbout has over hum
dred acres.
Marysville True Republican: The
proprietors Of the Irving stone quarries
have contract for furnishing $4,000
feet OF curbing, and between eighty and
ninety corner stones for use at Lincoln,
Neb. 1t will require one hundred cars
to ship the rock.
From Abilene: A largS>aumber Of
cattle in the south PIT Of Dickinson
county are dying from mysterious
epidemic which destroys them rapidly.
They lie down and die without sppar-
emit suffering. No cause can be assign
ed for the fatality. A single herd lost
thirteen head and other farmers report
increasing losses.
Ashland Clipper: We hear that a
few farmers are sowing wheat. showing
that the oft repeated statement that a
large crop would be sown is likely to
become true. Wheat and rye have
proven the paying crops this season,
but in fact have always been paving
crops since the first settlement of the
country.
]. NJ. Lingenfeter of Garden City,
sheriff of Finney county, Kan, says
that for the first time in the history of
his county tie corn crop this year will
make an enormous yield. While every
other section is either suffering from q
total loss or shortage. Finney county
he says will produce all the way from
thirty to 60 bushels of corn to the acre.
Wheat and oats yielded we'll particularly
the latter. The cause assigned by
Sheriff Lingenfeter for the bountiful
crops in his county is irrigation.
Holton Recorder: Mrs. NJ. Click in
course Of conversation informed us that
her husband died in 1874. the grass
hopper year, leaving her with four chill
dren on eighty acres of almost raw
prairie, with but little improvement,
scarcely any stock and no business ex-
perience at all. Her Oldest son was thir-
teen. Yesterday she said she had her land
pretty well improved, had, $500 BUSH
els OF old corn, will have few hundred
bushels Of new corn, few tons of hay,
100 head Of hogs, nine head of horses, a
number of cattle and does not owe a
dollar.
Garden City Sentinel: Tom Wolcott
threshed his fall and spring wheat crop
last week, and the yield was. nearly
twenty bushels per acre. He has 1000
bushels of as fine wheat as was ever
produced in any country, and he has
stored it up in the city and will not sell
until the price advances to one dollar
per bushel. As the wheat crop is short
in the United States and elsewhere, the
market has an upward tendency, and
wheat will soon bring a remunerative
price. Mr.. Wolcott did not irrigate his
wheat, and believes the rainfall is suffi-
Gent here to produce wheat without
failure
Kansas City, Mo-, Journal: Albert
J. Knollin. sheep buyer for Swift &
Company, has just returned from the
west and is thoroughly. conversant with
the condition of the flocks in twenty
four New Mexico. Utah, Oregon, Kan
sas and Nebraska counties. He says
that there are now soc, 900 head of sheep
on the trails making their way into
Kansas and Nebraska, where it was the
plans of the feeders to keep them over
winter. The number being driven this
year, he says. will lie about the same as
was sent over last year. but there will
be much less feeding done this year
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dry weather that has prevailed in Kan
sas and Nebraska, which has resulted
in scarcity of feed. Mr.. Knollin e1-
pscts to see prices go down in the fall,
because so many owners will ship their
mutton sheep this fall, rather than
pay the high price asked for feed. He
is of the opinion that the men who are
abe to feed sheep the coming winter
will find a good spring market and high
prices He says the sheep raising in
dustry has increased 40 per cent in the
last two years in the west. Captain
S. J. Woodruff, of San Antonio, Tex.
owner of a sheep ranch and 10000 head
Of mutton sheep. is of the impression
that it will pay him to feed his sheep.
He reports that the wool growing and
mutton industry is expanding in Texas.