Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-09-26
STOCK AND FARM.

Long Island Leader: Chinch bug
are damaging many pieces Of millet.
Washington Republican: VIM. Built
more, of Coleman, is erecting a 100
foot basement barn, which will ado
much to the looks and value of his fine
farm.
Winfield Courier: George Hudson
has peach tree that broke down under
its weight Of fruit. Specimens OF the
fruit, green, and only partly developed
measured 105 inches IN circumference
Clifton Review: Fred Meyers has
bought the southwest quarter of sec
ton thirty-five, in township four
south range one east, paying a good
round sum for it. Mr.. Meyers cam.
here seven years ago and has been
renting land all the time, but has man.
aged to accumulate enough filthy lucrs
to buy farm and pay cash for it.
Independence Tribune: j. G. Page
living south Of the city, has our thanks
for the premium stalk "A cotton. II
stood above five feet high, and was full!
of squares, blossoms, and bolls. He il
satisfied that our farmers ought ia
grow more acres Of cotton, and he
thinks his patch will make him S25 pei
acre.
Washinton Republican: P. NJ Bird,
who lives near the southwest corner of
Washington township, brought in few
ears of fine corn grown on his place.
He thinks he will have 700 or 500
bushels. 1t begins to look as though
there would be much better crop OF
corn in the county than has been ex-
pected.
Oswego Statesman: Farmers have
about finished the harvesting of castor
beans, and find tho crop a light one,
T. F. Lawrence says his crop is as good
as anyone's, and he has only about six
bushels an acre. Very few beans are
going to market, the opinion being en-
tertained that higher prices sill yet
prevail.
Washington Republican: Charles s.
Daniels has just completed what is
probably the best dam IN the county to
be used for stock purposes. 1t is about
ten feet thick and eight feet high and
stoned on both sides and filed with
earth between. It will have a surface
area of at least an acre. If every farm
had such q dam, it would not only
prove very convenient in a dry season,
but would no doubt be the means Of
producing greater rainfall. Let US
build ponds.
Tho Wichita Eagle says that the
Newton Republican publishes this;
There is no truth whatever in the re-
port which is being circulated with the
width and velocity which usually be-
long to e1travagant stories, that cattle
in Harvey county are dying Of Texas
fever or some other fell disease. This
statement has been frequently made by
the Republican. But yesterday news
reached Kansas City and other ship
ping points that Harvey county cattle
have been ''dying by the thousands"
rate which would soon reduce US to
pork and chicken diet. In order to
correct and quiet this damaging report,
the real facts are herein given. About
a month ago, cattle in the herd of
Joseph Gerson began to die, and it was
presumed that they had taken disease
brought in from Texas. An examina-
ton into the case was made by the state
authorities, but what the disease was
could not be determined. Local CATTLE
men declared it to come from a scarcity
of good water and a lack of shade.
Whatever was the cause, no cattle have
died within a month and none are
ailing now. The Texas fever and all
other epidemic diseases among cattle in
this county are purely mythical.