Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
sTOCK AND FARM.

Ford Gazette: Wheat is reported to
be not nearly so much damaged as was
feared before harvest. The yield will be
between fifteen and twenty five bushels
per acre.
South Haven New Era: J. s. Davis,
while assisting his brother-in-law,
Chas. Mcclellan, in harvesting, found
I, one head OF wheat which contained It's
grains. There were ten meshes with
five grains in each mesh.
Stafford Republican: J. b. White,
OF Fairview township, has picked 1876
! quarts of raspberries from his vines
this year, and will have 500 or 600
quarts of blackberries. His vines are
young, just beginning to bear.
Bellefont Ensign: Joseph Heron,
who lives two miles west OF this place,
had ten acres of rye cut that took two
and one-half pounds of Irvine per acre,
and VIM. Lightcap, at the east end of
the county, cut six acres that took three
pounds per acre and was about five feet
tall.
ElDorado Democrat: John Ellis, of
Chelsea, shipped seventy-nine head of
cattle from DeGraff, Sunday, to Kansas
City; they weighed 1,20O, and brought
$3.50 per hundred. George Ellis has
206 head of steers yet to ship, but is
waiting for the market to improve.
Louisburg Herald: We hear MANY
say that better prospect for fax and
corn was never seen IN this country
than prevails to day. Now if prices
are good We can reasonably expect bet
ter times than we have seen for several
seasons past. Flax is quoted now at
81 per bushel, but not much being con-
tracted.
Udall Record: In consulting a num-
Der of our farmers, we learn that there
is in this part of the state as good
show for heavy corn crop as could be
desired. The corn is growing very fast
and the ground Is in good condition.
There has been rain sufficient, yet dry
enough that the corn could be thor
oughly cultivated and kept clean of
weeds.
From Kingman: Corn never looked
better in the history o. Kingman coun-
ty, and the acreage was never, perhaps,
larger. 1t is simply astonishing to
ride through the country and see the
amount of both wheat and corn, with
large acreage of oats. No man ever
looked on any finer country than this,
and the country is here to show for
itself.
From Chetopa: Local showers have
visited this section of the state within
the last few days and they were badly
needed. Some fields of cotton, of which
a greater acreage was planted than last
year, has been in bloom several days,
and promises a good yield. The wheat
crop is about all harvested in good
shape. The yield in Cherokee county
east of this, is better than for several
years, while in this county it varies
very greatly. some fields being heavy
and others very light. The oat crop
will be immense. The fruit crop, in
Guiding peaches, is generally good.
With few more rains the corn crop
Will be abundant.
Special from Cedar Vale: Several
more cattle died of Texas fever in the
Spring creek district yesterday, and
number more are sick. At least half
dozen in Wesley Best's herd were sick
this morning, and George W. Satterlee
has a number sick. These are men
whose herds had not been visited on
Tlor1r Loot h.
nounced the quarantine of the Gibson
Frazier herd, and gave list of the men
who had lost stock up to that date In
the Gibson-Frazier pasture that is quar-
antined, there are $50 head of Texas |
cattle and from sixty to seventy head |
of natives. The same owners have a |
5000 acre pasture Just north of Sedan,
stocked with 500 Texas steers that have
not yet been quarantined. So far the |
fever has shown Itself in not less than
twenty-eight herds, and it is expected |
to visit many more. Deputy Sheriff |
Lowe, of Chautau qua county, is in
charge OF the quarantine, and a state
veterinarian is now making thorough |
examination of the deadly disease with
the hope of establishing It's origin.
Gibson & Frazier and all the ranchmen
in this part of the state, who have Texas
cattle, brought them into the state &C
cording to law, and claim that there is
no Texas fever, but that some other
disease or fever has caused the scare.
ranchmen are watching
the seventy native steers among Gibson
& Frazier's $50 Texans with a good
deal of interest, expecting that all of
the native steers will die, anG thus they
ook for proof that the fever is genuine.
Two hundred deaths have already oc-
cured there. The quarantine limits
will no doubt be extended early next
week, so as to include all the herds of
Texas cattle found grazing with or
lear native cattle.
KANSAS RAIIR0AnS